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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?
- What is meant by the term "durable digital information?"
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?
- What is an aggregation object?
- What is an explicit aggregation?
- What is an implicit aggregation?
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?
The Fedora software that is distributed by Fedora Commons is not an out-of-the-box solution for any particular use case. It is a repository management service that is a foundation upon which many information management solutions can be built. It provides a broad, powerful set of features and services that is designed to support digital information networks that are durable over long periods of time. The Fedora Commons philosophy is that solutions for particular use cases will come from a rapidly developing set of services and applications that can be used to increasingly easily assemble the desired system.
How does the license for using Fedora work?
What is meant by the term "durable digital information?"
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?"
