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The Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group meeting took place September 11-13 at Oxford University. Erin Tripp, DuraSpace Business Development Manager, attended and presented on DuraCloud and Fedora. She wrote a report on the meeting which can be found on the DuraSpace website.
PHYDO Developer Event
As a part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to Indiana University and WGBH to extend the HydraDAM digital asset management system to operate over Fedora 4 as well as provide richer support for preservation workflows related to audio and visual objects, Indiana University hosted a developer event from September 11-13. The event, attended by Fedora, Samvera and Avalon representatives, developed a working model for managing and serving content that may be hosted on systems external to Fedora, such as hierarchical storage management systems, offline tape or AWS infrastructure.
RDA 10th Plenary Meeting
The 10th Research Data Alliance Plenary Meeting took place September 19-21 in Montreal, Quebec. The meeting featured several group discussions relevant to Fedora, including the Research Data Repository Interoperability working group and the Repository Platforms for Research Data interest group. David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager, attended and presented on Fedora, Samvera, and Islandora in the context of data repositories. The Fedora Import/Export Utility was also featured in discussions on repository interoperability with regard to BagIt packages.
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