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Web UI / Front End Applications
The Fascinator
Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 2.1.x and 3.0
Contributor: University of Southern Queensland
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The Fascinator is an Apache Solr front end to the Fedora commons repository. This project is funded by ARROW, as part of the mini project scheme. The Fascinator is written in Java. It drops into the Tomcat server that comes with Fedora. The goal of the project is to create a simple interface to Fedora that uses a single technology - that's Solr - to handle all browsing, searching and security. This contrasts with solutions that use RDF for browsing by 'collection', XACML for security and a text indexer for fulltext search, and in some cases relational database tables as well. We wanted to see if taking out some of these layers makes for a fast application which is easy to configure. So far so good. The Fascinator can:
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Islandora
Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 2.1.x
Contributor: University of Prince Edward Island
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Robertson Library is releasing the their Fedora-Drupal module Islandora as opensource. There is a Islandora project hosted by Fedora Commons here. The Islandora module allows Drupal users to view and manage digital objects stored in Fedora. There is a demo Amazon ec2 image running here http://ec2-75-101-195-219.compute-1.amazonaws.com/. The ami has both Drupal and Fedora installed. The disk space available to for this image is limited. If you use Amazon's EBS you could get upto a terabyte of space. There is also a S3 adapter written for Fedora that could be used. If you have an Amazon AWS account you can launch your own version of the image. The public image name is ami-e9d23680. Once the image is started you will have to login to the newly created image using ssh and start Fedora. To start Fedora cd to /usr/local/fedora/tomcat/bin and type ./startup.sh. This will start Tomcat which will bring up the Fedora web application. You will then be able to use a browser to view your new ami instance by browsing to the ami's public DNS address. We have created a google group to act as a mailing list for the Islandora module. You can send email here islandora@googlegroups.com or visit here http://groups.google.com/group/islandora. |
Blacklight
Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 2.1.x - ?
Contributor: ?
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Blacklight is an open source OPAC (online public access catalog). That means libraries (or anyone else) can use it to allow people to search and browse their collections online. Blacklight uses Solr to index and search, and it has a highly configurable Ruby on Rails front-end. Currently, Blacklight can index, search, and provide faceted browsing for MaRC records and several kinds of XML documents, including TEI, EAD, and GDMS. Blacklight was developed at the University of Virginia Library and is made public under an Apache 2.0 license. A next generation library catalog written in ruby, using solr as the underlying search engine. All you have to do is export your marc records, index them with the scripts provided, start up ruby on rails, and you're on your way to faceted browsing bliss. |
RubyFedora
Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 2.x - 3.3
Contributor: matt.zumwalt [at] yourmediashelf.com
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RubyFedora provides a set of Ruby gems for creating and managing objects in the Fedora Repository Architecture (http://fedora-commons.org). RubyFedora was created by, and is maintained by Mediashelf (http://yourmediashelf.com) |
Fez
Management and Search Front End
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Contributor: University of Queensland Christiaan Kortekaas c.kortekaas@library.uq.edu.au
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Fez is a web front-end management system for Fedora that is developed in PHP. This work is part of UQ eScholarship Project and the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. Fez functionality includes:
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Flori
Flori (Fedora Learning Object Repository Interface)
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Contributor: Flori is a GPL licensed open source project, developed and maintained by Func. Internet Integration for Kennisnet Ict op school.
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Flori is a web front-end for Fedora Commons, specialized in managing learning objects and their meta data. Key features include virtual repositories and flexible meta data schema's. |
RubyFedora
Status: Unknown
Fedora Versions: Unknown
Contributor: Mr Matt Zumwalt matt.zumwalt (nospam) yourmediashelf.com
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RubyFedora provides a set of Ruby gems for creating and managing objects in the Fedora Repository Architecture (http://fedora-commons.org). RubyFedora was created by, and is maintained by Mediashelf (http://yourmediashelf.com) |
VALET for ETDs
Management and Search Front End
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Contributor: ACS Technology Center'' Eric Jansson ejansson@colleges.org
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ELATED is a lightweight, general-purpose application for managing digital files. ELATED is built on top of the Fedora Repository system, and can be used as a digital assets management system, an institutional repository, or to meet other collection archiving, publishing and searching needs.
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Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 2.2.x, 3.1
Wiki Markup
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Muradora is designed to be a turnkey web front-end for Fedora focusing on flexible access control (see DRAMA). It is being developed as part of the DRAMA project(now the Muradora Project). Muradora is built in Java using the Spring Framework (with Struts 2), and makes heavy use of AJAX technologies to provide a richer and more dynamic user interface.
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In 2006 the ARROW (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) Project funded two mini‐projects at the University of South Australia, namely ARROW Batch Utilities and ARROW Batch edit tool to solve the issue of batch metadata editing. The combined outcome of this work resulted in the creation of web based, open source PHP application called FABULOUS (Fedora ARROW Batch Utility with Lots of User Services). FABULOUS reduces time required to manage repository content by enabling modifications to user selected sets of objects and data streams. Fabulous functionality includes:
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Middleware
Fedora Enhanced Content Models
Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 3.*
Contributor: State and University Library, Denmark Asger Askov Blekinge abr@kb.dk
Enhanced Content Models have a number of new features compared to the Fedora 3.0 content models. First of these is the more elaborate specification of the data objects. Second is the repository view system, which allows the repository to dynamically remap the contained data to virtual data objects. And third is the object creation templates, which allows the content models to behave as object classes from which new data object instances can be made.
All our work is under the Apache 2.0 License, and is/will be available as add-ons to Fedora.
Fedora is an extensible repository system, containing data objects and content models, which hold descriptions of the data objects that subscribe to them. In Fedora 3.0 Content Models express the classes of objects, and tie data objects to disseminators, but do little else.
Content Models are formal descriptions of data objects, which should be distinguished from datamodels, which are descriptions of collections of data. Having a datamodel is a requirement for many digital repositories and the easiest solution is creating an interface that only allows data to be entered in a special format. If all data is input through this interface, it will adhere to the datamodel. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of coupling the datamodel to the program code of the interface.
We believe that the datamodel should not be part of the interface, it should be part of the repository. We achieved this by enhancing the Content Models. The Enhanced Content Models can specify the cardinality and target classes of relations, and schemas for datastreams. We have implemented a validator, which checks data objects against their Content Models. A set of Enhanced Content Models makes up a datamodel.
In Fedora, you might have atomic objects making up a "record", but for indexing purposes, this record must be flattened to one compound. Enhanced Content Models can specify how to do this flattening, in the repository view system, and we have implemented a webservice to create such compounds.
In many OO programming languages new objects are created as instances of a class. Enhanced Content Models implements this pattern. You can declare certain data objects to be templates for an enhanced content model. We have developed a webservice that can create new objects in Fedora, given a content model and a template to use as basis.
Fedora-OKI
Fedora-OKI Bridge
Status: Active
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Purpose: ARCHmedia MetaFramework is high level Java framework to develop quickly and easier stand-alone and web applications for Fedora repository.
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Digital Repository Authorization Middleware Architecture (DRAMA)
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Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 2.2unmigrated-wiki-markup
*Contributor:* [DRAMA Website|http://drama.ramp.org.au]'' \ [ Chi Nguyen\|FEDINFO:User__Chi \ ]
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The DRAMA project aims to re-factor Fedora authorization into middleware components that can be plugged on top of an existing Fedora (2.2) deployment. It offers the following features:
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Utilities
These are small applications or scripts that make running your FEDORA-based repository easier.
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The Fedora Windows Service Installer will run Fedora as a Windows Service instead of from the command line. The service does nothing more than issuing the "fedora-start" command during the Start operation, and issuing the "fedora-stop" command during the Stop operation. Once you install the service you may Start/Stop/Restart the service just as any other Windows Service. All Case Western Reserve University
.NET Connector
Interface to Microsoft .NET development platform
Status: Active
Fedora Versions: 3.2 and 3.3
Contributor: Maastricht University
Microsoft .NET connector for the Fedora Commons repository system. Developed by Jeroen Suijkerbuijk, commissioned and sponsored by Maastricht University Library. Much of the functionality offered by the Fedora Web Administrator available for your own .NET development project. Using this single dll, you can add, change and remove objects and streams.