Transcript five_fan_fedora_preso - NSDL Project Archive

Five fantastic Fedora Commons projects
in five minutes, in no particular order
Carol Minton Morris
Communications Director
National Science Digital Library, Fedora Commons
Cornell University
Fedora:
Flexible
Extensible
Digital
Object
Repository
Architecture,
or as Mark Leggott, University of Prince
Edward Island, University
Librarian describes it . . . .
1. Which begs the question: Can Fedora really run
a University?
Fedora, enables the creation of durable, reusable
and independent resources for a new kind of scholar
who does not yet know how they will be used to create
warranted knowledge in the future.
Fedora Commons, home of Fedora software, is at
the intersection of key social and technical trends:
Open Scholarly Contexts
Technical Contexts
scholarly publication
service-oriented
e-scholarship
web 2.0
collaborative digital library
e-science
museums
semantic web
web 3.0
The Fedora Commons community consists of:
Consortia
Corporations
Government Agencies
Medical Centers
National Libraries and Archives
Professional Societies
Publishers
Research Groups and Projects
Semantic and Virtual Library Projects
University IT Departments
University Libraries and Archives
NSDL is also at the
intersection of social and
technical trends.
The National Science Digital
Library (NSDL) uses Fedora
to create a semantic
educational layer on top of
over 2.5 M repository objects
in support of new forms of escholarship.
Connections between
content items are captured
and stored in Fedora as
semantic relationships
describing both the linkage
and its meaning.
2. What if you could provide a set of high quality, vetted
resources aligned to standards so that teachers could
create their own on-the-fly classroom eZines?
3. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could mix and match
scholarly repository resources with other stuff
from the web?
4. Can popular culture assets be made available for
scholarly research while managing intellectual
property rights?
5. Wouldn’t it be great to use freely available technology
like Google Maps to mash-up repository holdings with
geographic location information to add additional
semantic meaning to resources?
While Rob Chavez was at Tufts University, where Fedora is used to
manage digital collections, he experimented with using Fedora data
streams to disseminate repository content in a way that Google
Earth could use:
Fedora allows repository managers to model and
manage data in such a way that familiar tools
—Google Earth—can access and provide context for
loads of Fedora managed data.
The content itself can aggregate even more Fedora
managed content.
Next steps: to use the same tools to aggregate this
data temporarily—time and space browser of Fedora data—
to manipulate the data and push it back to Fedora.
Questions?
Open Repositories 2008, Call for Papers--Dec. 7, 2007
http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Carol Minton Morris, Communications and Media Director
cmmorris@ fedora-commons.org (607) 255-2702