This is the June 2016 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
Call for Action
Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these bugs [1], please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.
Software development
Standards
Fedora API Specification
The Fedora community is working to establish a clearly defined specification for the core Fedora services []. This specification will detail the exact services and interactions required for a server implementation to be verified as "doing Fedora". A meeting was held to discuss moving the versioning specification forward as an implementation of the Memento protocol. This proposal was met with agreement, so the draft specification will be moved into GitHub and then formatted using the W3C Respec tool.
You are invited to comment on and contribute to the draft specifications [].
Community-driven Activity
API Extension Architecture
The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University was awarded an IMLS grant [] to support development on API-X through December, 2016. The deliverables include:
- Public release of the API-X architectures
- Associated documentation and dissemination
- Some common interest extensions
At the last meeting [] it was decided that a list of tasks would be circulated to the group before being added to an issue tracker for resolution. If you are interested in the API Extension Architecture, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [] and attend the next meeting on Thursday, May 12 at 1pm EDT.
Performance and Scalability
A number of test plans [] have been developed by the Performance and Scalability group, and some initial results are available. At the last meeting [] the group made plans to document and run additional tests and work on profiling Fedora 4 [] using YourKit.
If you are interested in Performance and Scalability, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [] and attend the next meeting [] on May 16 at 11am EDT.
Conferences and events
Upcoming Events
Open Repositories
Jisc/CNI Conference
Islandora Camp BC
Previous Events
LPForum
David Wilcox, Fedora product manager will offer a workshop entitled, Publishing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora 4 [15] at the Library Publishing Forum [16] (LPForum 2016) to be held at the University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, Texas on May 18 from 1:00 PM-3:30 PM. All LPForum 2016 attendees are welcome—there is no need to pre-register for this introductory-level workshop.
TCDL
Andrew Woods, Fedora technical lead, will offer a Fedora 4 workshop [17] at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries [18] (TCDL) on Tuesday, May 24 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM. Space is limited to please register in advance [19].
References
[1] https://jira.duraspace.org/issues/?filter=13122 [2]
