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General Questions about Fedora
- #What is Fedora?
- Does Fedora come as an "out of the box" solution?
- How does the license for using Fedora work?
The Fedora Abstractions
- What is a data object?
- What is a persistent identifier?
- What is a content model?
- What is meant by "relationships among objects?"
- What is a behavior of an object?
- What is a policy?
Content Modeling
- What is the difference between the atomistic and compound approaches?
- How do I best use CModel objects?
The Fedora Community
- Who is using Fedora and what are they doing with it?
- What are "Solution Communities?"
The Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) is set of abstractions which can be used to express a variety of long-term durable information management schemes. Fedora Commons distributes software that implements Fedora as an open source web services framework that is intended to be a foundation for the creation of durable, flexible information networks.
