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Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of DuraSpace members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. The 2017 membership campaign is drawing to a close, and so far the Fedora project has raised $559,750 from 76 members. The annual goal this year is $580,000, so we are over 96% of the way there. We will continue to coordinate with members of the Fedora Leadership Group to expand the pool of DuraSpace members supporting the Fedora project and build a sustainable funding base for the future. If your institution is not yet a member of DuraSpace in support of Fedora, please join us and help us reach our goal!
New Members
We would like to thank the University of Tennessee Libraries for joining as a Gold member in support of Fedora. We are thrilled to have them as a member! For more information on membership and benefits please see the DuraSpace website.
Fedora Camp Texas
Fedora Camp Texas, co-hosted by Texas Digital Library and the University of Texas Libraries, took place at the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library in Austin October 16-18, 2017. Participants had an opportunity to explore Fedora functionality, from a broad introduction to specific features, extensions, and integration points. We couldn't have held such a successful camp without our knowledgable team of instructors, who spent months preparing for the camp and delivered both presentations and expertise in terms of answering questions and leading discussions. We would like to thank the team and their institutions for supporting their participation:
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Last month's newsletter reported on the Oxford Common Filesystem Layout proposal (OCFL) put forward by Andrew Hankinson. Similar to the "Portland Common Data Model," this proposal can serve to start conversations about the underlying data storage layer in our institutional repositories and arrive at some common understanding of best-practices for filesystem storage. Andrew Woods followed this proposal with a call to form an interest group around the OCFL. If you are interested in joining this effort please respond to the mailing list thread with a +1.
Fedora 5.0.0
With Fedora's support for semantic versioning and the policy to limit the number of major releases to one per year, the primary change found in the next major release of Fedora (5.0.0) will be an alignment of the RESTful API with the Fedora API Specification. Two recent sprints made significant progress towards this goal, with the current focus being on exposing versioned resources per the Memento specification.
Conferences and events
In an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as HTML and iCal .
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Samvera Connect is a chance for Samvera Project participants to gather in one place at one time, with an emphasis on synchronizing efforts, technical development, plans, and community links. The meeting program is aimed at existing users, managers and developers and at new folks who may be just "kicking the tires" on Samvera and who want to know more. This year's conference will feature a variety of workshops, presentations, panels, lightning talks, unconference sessions, and working/interest group meetings. Please register in advance to attend! While registration has closed, you may contact Sean Keenan if you are interested in attending.
SWIB17
SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries), taking place December 4-6 in Hamburg, Germany, is an annual conference focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from all over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. This year's conference will feature a Fedora workshop focused on managing assets as linked data. Please register in advance to attend.
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