Training Events

Information on upcoming and past training events can be found on the Events page.

Training Modules

These training modules are under active development. They serve as reusable course materials that can be delivered by Fedora 4 instructors or anyone in the community who would like to use them. Please feel free to copy and modify the Google slides for your own use.

• Fedora Overview
• Introducing Fedora
• Fedora In-Context: Front-Ends
• Fedora 3 Equivalences and Linked Data Best Practices
• Moving into Fedora 4: Concepts and Planning
• Core Services: CRUD
• Core Services: Authorization, Transactions
• Core Services: Versioning, Fixity, Messaging
• External Services: Solr and Triplestores
• External Services: RDF Serialization, Re-Index, Fixity 
• Object Modeling: PCDM
• Future Directions

This page lays out some possible topics for Fedora 4 training, both for administrators and developers.

General Topics

• Feature discussion
  • Showcase a selection of features and explain why they are important
  • Request feedback on other features that may be important
  • Show how to configure Fedora 4 to expose/enable particular features
  • Teach how to use particular features

Topics for Administrators

• Content modelling
• Configuring authorization
• Working with external triplestores
• Working with internal and external repository search

Topics for Developers

• Introduction to the software stack
• Explanation of Modeshape, Infinispan, and Fedora
• Standards and specifications as they apply to stack components
• Discussion of principles (testing, design, etc.)
• Discussion of tools (Jenkins, Pivotal, etc.)
• Discussion of process (sprints, planning, documentation, etc.)

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