This registry includes known community-developed libraries and frameworks that work with recent releases of the Fedora Commons Repository Software (2.2.x and 3.x).
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Title and Link |
Summary |
Status |
Compatibility |
Contact |
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The unique name of the software or project, linked to a URL providing more information. |
One-line description |
Released or Unreleased; date of last update |
Fedora 2.2.x or Fedora 3.x |
Individual and/or Organization |
Built on RubyFedora, this ruby gem provides an active record oriented way of working with objects in Fedora |
Released |
Fedora 3.x |
Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf |
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A python Django web UI for Fedora. |
Released |
Fedora 3.x |
Peter Herndon, Sloan-Kettering Medical Library |
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A Google Summer of Code 2009 project to persist DSpace 2 entities in Fedora |
Unreleased |
Fedora 3.x |
Andrius Blažinskas, Kauno Technologijos Universitetas, Lithuania |
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A Java web application that provides an unAPI implementation for the Fedora. |
Released |
Fedora 3.x |
Edwin Shin, Media Shelf |
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A JCR adapter for Fedora, implemented as a Jackrabbit persistence manager, that translates all node/property storing and loading requests to Fedora API calls. |
Unreleased |
Fedora 3.x |
Jonathan Smith, Northwestern University, Academic and Research Technologies |
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A Python library for interfacing with Fedora's REST api |
Released |
Fedora 3.x |
Peter Herndon, Sloan-Kettering Medical Library |
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Python libraries for interfacing with Fedora's API-A, API-M, and RISearch interfaces. |
Released |
Fedora 2.2.x, Fedora 3.x |
Ben O'Steen, Oxford |
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A ruby gem that provides a light-weight wrapper around the Fedora REST API. |
Released |
Fedora 3.x |
Chris Beer, WGBH |
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A ruby gem for creating and managing objects in Fedora. |
Released |
Fedora 3.x |
Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf |
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JyFedoREST is a Jython package for creating and managing objects in a Fedora Repository via the REST API. |
Experimental |
Fedora 3.2+ |
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PyFedoREST is a pure Python package for creating and managing objects in a Fedora Repository via the REST API |
Experimental |
Fedora 3.2+ |
Rick Moore, Fedora Commons |
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; date of last update |
Fedora 2.2.x or Fedora 3.x |
Individual and/or Organization |
Provides a high-level interface to manage Fedora repository content and allows you to write standalone web applications based on Fedora. |
Released |
Fedora 2.2.x |
Thierry Michel, Xtensive Technologies |
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