Two JISC-funded projects at Hull both using Fedora

RepoMMan (2005-2007) Using a repository as part of a personal workflow

REMAP (2007-2009) ‘Intelligent’ objects: records management and

preservation

Alongside RepoMMan and REMAP, the eDocs (beta) repository emerged - using Muradora:

Presentation at the OR08 Fedora days (3rd & 4th April ‘08) about RepoMMan, REMAP and eDocs

Hurried conversation afterwards with Thornton Staples (Fedora Commons) that “we need to talk!”

Slightly longer conversation about the need for a dissertation repository at the University of Virginia and the idea of using some of the RepoMMan/REMAP work.

Meeting in Charlottesville, VA September ’08 Fedora Commons Stanford University University of Hull University of Virginia

Agreement to work together to produce an end-to-end, flexible, extensible, Fedora application kit a ‘Lego’ set of services and templates

Further meetings in October and December

Decisions – amongst which: Open source Use Muradora as a starting point for a functionality specification Use ActiveFedora (Ruby) as the basis of the browser client▪ This brings in Matt Zumwalt and Mediashelf LLC

Use Fedora & ActiveFedora support for content models Abstract the client from the repository (dissemination) Use UVA’s ‘Blacklight’ search engine Complex and compound objects; multiple set membership OAI-PMH support native Three year project but with a usable intermediate product for the

partners for 2009/10 academic year

9/1/09 - First specification

30/1/09 - Mock-up

31/3/09 - Prototype Fedora 3.1 Hydra client creation, editing, admin, access support management of sets (collections) and display rich search (Blacklight) quick and dirty authZ (temporary Ruby solution) support for ETDs but not just that must create sustainable objects

Easter 2009 ‘Go/no-go?’ decision for UVa & Stanford ‘Adopt?’ (and ‘adapt’) decision for Hull

July 2009 Production-ready system for partners that

matches or exceeds functionality and security available in Muradora

2009-2011 Configurable, end-to-end workflows Personal repository space▪ support for versioning with rollback▪ support for sharing/co-ownership▪ support for multiple, simultaneous publish▪ support for multiple user profiles (the same person can be involved

in multiple roles, multiple projects, multiple…) and proxies

2011 ‘Out of the box’ Hydra (better name?) available to Fedora

community