What
eResearch Australasia Fedora 4 Training Workshop
Where
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Merivale Street
South Brisbane
Brisbane QLD 4101
When
October 2015
9:00am - 5:00pm
Attendees
The list of attendees will be posted following the meeting.
Agenda/Presentations
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome and Introductions | All |
| 9:15 - 10:30 | Fedora 4 Introduction and Overview | David Wilcox, DuraSpace |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Migration Tools and Strategies | David Wilcox, DuraSpace |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Migration Case Study | Arif Shaon, UNSW |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 14:45 | Fedora 4 Integrations | David Wilcox, DuraSpace |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 15:15 - 16:45 | Hands-on with Fedora 4 | David Wilcox, DuraSpace Arif Shaon, UNSW |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Wrap-up and Discussion | All, led by Arif Shaon, UNSW |
Summary
Fedora is a robust, modular, open source repository platform for the management, preservation, and dissemination of digital content, including research data. Fedora, the new, revitalized version of the software, was released into production in November of 2014. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use, and more.
This workshop will provide an introduction to and overview of Fedora 4, with a focus on migration and Fedora 4’s latest features. After an initial review of the most significant new features, participants will learn about how to migrate from earlier versions of Fedora to Fedora 4. This will include a review and demonstration of available migration tools, as well as a discussion on data modeling best practices. There will also be a presentation on UNSW’s recently completed Fedora 3 to 4 migration work.
Attendees will have the opportunity (in Section 4) to participate in a hands-on session and explore Fedora 4 by following step-by-step instructions using a preconfigured virtual machine environment. This will give participants a chance to explore the new features and experience Fedora 4 first-hand. Developers and administrators interested in working on Fedora 4 will learn about the software development process and procedures, including how to integrate Fedora 4 with external applications, such as search platforms (e.g. Solr) and triplestores.
Two of the overall aims of the workshop are to encourage familiarity with and uptake of Fedora 4 within the Australian repository community, and bring Australian developers into the global Fedora community while raising our profile in the research support arena.
For more information, please contact David Wilcox (dwilcox@duraspace.org).
