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 API-X effort continues to move forward at a strong pace. At the last meeting [] concrete plans to develop a number of extensions were discussed, including binary derivation and package ingest. Issues in the GitHub tracker were assigned to be worked on over the next two weeks. If you are interested in the API Extension Architecture, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [] and attend the next meeting.
Performance and Scalability
A Performance and Scalability report was published in May to document the group's work to date and future work. A number of test scenarios have already been run and the results are linked from the report.
If you are interested in Performance and Scalability, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list [] and attend the next meeting on June 24.
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]
