Services and Utilities

Registry

This registry includes known community-developed services and utilities that work with recent releases of the Fedora Commons Repository Software (2.2.x and 3.x).

Know of anything that's not listed? Please add it below! And don't hesitate to add a project that is just getting started; it is good for the community to know what each other is working on.

Title and Link

Summary

Status

Compatibility

Contact

The unique name of the software or project, linked to a URL providing more information.

One-line description

Released or Unreleased

Fedora 2.2.x or Fedora 3.x

Individual and/or Organization

Djatoka Integration

A sample content model, service definition, and service deployment object demonstrating how to integrate Fedora with the Djatoka JPEG2000 service.

Released
2009-06-18

Fedora 3.x

Ryan Chute, Los Alamos National Laboratory

EZService

A utility to simplify the creation of Fedora Service Definition and Deployment objects.

Released
2011-05-10

Fedora 3.x

Chris Wilper, DuraSpace; Stephen Bayliss, Acuity Unlimited

FABULOUS

A web-based batch utility for Fedora, written in PHP.

Released
2008-11-21

Fedora 2.2.x

Prashent Pandey, University of South Australia

Fedora CloudSync

A new web-based utility for backing up and restoring Fedora content in DuraCloud.

Released
2011-10-28

Fedora 3.x

Chris Wilper, DuraSpace

Fedora Commons CLI

A command line utility for Fedora, using the REST API and written in Groovy.

Unreleased

Fedora 3.3

Kai Strnad, FIZ Karlsruhe

oreprovider

An OAI-ORE provider that provides Resource Maps for Fedora objects, using the Resource Index.

Unreleased

Fedora 2.2.x,
Fedora 3.x

Oskar Grenholm, National Library of Sweden

fedora-checksum

A Perl script using REST to iterate through the objects and datastreams in your repository to check the validity of the content against their checksums.

Released
2010-12-15

Fedora 3.4.x

Riccardo Valzorio, CILEA, Italy

How to Participate

Feel free to add any Mailing lists, blogs, regular calls, IRC channels, etc. used by people working on this type of project.

If you don't know where else to look, check the Create Forum and use the fedora-commons-create google group.

Types of Developers & Skills

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Useful Documentation

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Best Practices

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Challenge Areas & Hot Topics

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