Create Forum

The Fedora Create Community exists to coordinate and integrate the community of developers working with the Fedora software. The Fedora Repository Service was intentionally designed to be the basis for a variety of information management schemes and, as such, it porvides the foundation for a rich variety of software projects. Take a look at the project types listed below to get a sense of the diverse software being created by this community to work with Fedora.

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Project Types

For the sake of sanity, we break these out into The Fedora Repository Product itself, Complete Solutions, Services & Utilities, Libraries & Frameworks, Content Models, Workflow-ish Components, Plugins, Serializations & APIs.

Currently the most complete listing of available software is in our community software registry.

The Fedora Repository Product

The repository service that is at the core of Fedora is managed by a community-based committers group that maintains the integrity of the core software, both with their own code and by working with other members of the community to integrate their contributions.

Complete Solutions

Examples of Complete Solutions

End-user facing solutions that cater to specific use case(s), ie. Institutional Repositories (IRs), Virtual Research Environments (VREs), Data Curation Systems, etc.

Islandora
Muradora
VITAL
Hydra ETDs
NSDL EduPak
RODA
Fascinator

Services & Utilities

Self-contained, purpose-specific software that is either used on-demand or acts as an integrated part of overall deployment. These are either run constantly, on an ongoing basis, alongside the repository or invoked by a person.

Examples of Services & Services

GSearch
Workflow Engines
Permissions Manager
CModel-based Constructor
Version Wiper
Djatoka
Solr, Lucene
Bulk Updater

Libraries & Frameworks

Libraries for consuming Fedora's APIs and/or Frameworks for creating client applications on top of Fedora Repositories.

Examples of Libraries & Frameworks

ActiveFedora
Python client code (Oxford, MSKCC)
Hydra Framework

Content Models

CModels and associated Service Definitions & Service Implementations that can be used with the Fedora CMA

Examples of Content Models

Djatoka Content Models

Workflow Components

Small chunks of code for performing specific tasks. These can be used & re-used as building blocks in larger processes. Often, these are wrappers for software & utililties that are not Fedora-specific. These are meant to be invoked by an external program or process.

Examples of Workflow Components