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From its inception, the Fedora Commons project has been an attempt to overlay linked data descriptions on stored or linked binary assets. Fedora Commons has never been the sole product in this space, and this more general case has evolved into the Linked Data Platform Specification, a W3C standard that describes much of what Fedora Commons provides at the API level. Given the broader audience for and tooling around this specification, the Fedora developers have elected to make it the basis for a common repository REST API. Building around an independent API based on broader standards will allow the community more security and flexibility: The ecosystem of software around the API will be able to apply to more sources of data, back-end migration may be possible with less disruption to running applications, and the likelihood of third-party tools being applicable to an institutions institution's data will be greater.
The Developer Case
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