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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:

• Web-based browsing and searching
• Semi-advanced searching
• Complex security model with shibboleth support
• Automatic image resizing/thumbnailing
• Dublin Core, MODS, PREMIS

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:

• Create one or more web portals for a Fedora 3 repository
• Ingest content from other sources into Fedora 3 using OAI-PMH, a direct connection to Fedora 2 or via the experimental OAI-ORE
• Provide simple efficient access control to Fedora repositories
• It is Open Source (GPL)

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.

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 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)

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.

• Dublin Core metadata entry and search
• Custom metadata by collection
• Automatic previews for images
• Collections with simple editorial workflow
• Indexing and searching of content (e.g. text in MS Word or PDF document)
• User feedback, enabled by collection
• Select and import existing Fedora objects

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. 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.
Its functionality includes:

• Browsing and Searching (full-text)
• Self submission and publishing interface
• Support for Shibboleth authentication
• Tree view of user-defined collections (based on user's own RDF ontology)
• Authorization based on XACML but with an easy intuitive access control GUI (no need for any raw XACML editing by the end user)
• Flexible metadata (DC, MODS, etc...) input based on XForms standard (utilizing Orbeon XForm server side engine so no browser plugins are required).
• Utilizing DRAMA middleware components (see below) for better management of policies and consistent access control across many GUIs talking to a single Fedora server