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General Questions about Fedora

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?"


What is Fedora?
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.

Does Fedora come as an "out of the box" solution?

How does the license for using Fedora work?

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?

How do I best use CModel objects?

Who is using Fedora and what are they doing with it?

What are "Solution Communities?"

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