Please forgive cross posting. >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:14:21 -0400 >From: Carol Minton Morris <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: [Fedora-commons-users] FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > >CONTACT: >Fedora Commons: Sandy Payette >(607) 255-9222, [log in to unmask] ><http://www.fedora-commons.org>http://www.fedora-commons.org >Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Greg Nelson >(415) 561-7427, [log in to unmask] > >FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M GRANT TO DEVELOP OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE >FOR BUILDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNITIES >(Ithaca, New York, August 10, 2007) - Fedora Commons today announced >the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty >Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical >frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how >scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, and educators collaborate >to produce, share, and preserve their digital intellectual >creations. Fedora Commons is a new non-profit organization that >will continue the mission of the Fedora Project, the successful >open-source software collaboration between Cornell University and >the University of Virginia. The Fedora Project evolved from the >Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) >developed by researchers at Cornell Computing and Information Science. > >With this funding, Fedora Commons will foster an open community to >support the development and deployment of open source software, >which facilitates open collaboration and open access to scholarly, >scientific, cultural, and educational materials in digital >form. The software platform developed by Fedora Commons with Gordon >and Betty Moore Foundation funding will support a networked model of >intellectual activity, whereby scientists, scholars, teachers, and >students will use the Internet to collaboratively create new ideas, >and build on, annotate, and refine the ideas of their colleagues >worldwide. With its roots in the Fedora open-source repository >system, developed since 2001 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon >Foundation, the new software will continue to focus on the integrity >and longevity of the intellectual products that underlie this new >form of knowledge work. The result will be an open source software >platform that both enables collaborative models of information >creation and sharing, and provides sustainable repositories to >secure the digital materials that constitute our intellectual, >scientific, and cultural history. > >Recognizing the importance of multiple participants in the >development of new technologies to support this vision, the Moore >Foundation funding will also support the growth and diversification >of the Fedora Community, a global set of partners who will cooperate >in software development, application deployment, and community >outreach for Fedora Commons. This network of partners will be >instrumental for making Fedora Commons a self-sustainable non-profit >organization that will support and incubate open-source software >projects that focus on new mechanisms for information formation, >access, collaboration, and preservation. > >According to Sandy Payette, Executive Director of Fedora Commons, >"the new Fedora Commons can foster technologies and partnerships >that make it possible for academic and scientific communities to >publish, share, and archive the results of their own work in a free, >open fashion, and make it possible to analyze and use content in novel ways." > >"Establishing a sustainable open-source software system that >provides the basic infrastructure for on-line communities of >scholars will have enduring impact. The unanticipated >cross-disciplinary uses of this open platform are the hallmark of >this revolutionary infrastructure," said Jim Omura, technology >strategist with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. >Payette also noted, "The open-source software that is developed and >distributed by Fedora Commons can impact the entire lifecycle of >what is often referred to as "e-Research" and "e-Science," including >storage of experimental data, analysis of experimental results, peer >review, publication of findings, and the reuse of published material >for the next generation of scholarly works. We will also continue >our work with libraries and museums to facilitate the sharing of >digitized collections, making previously locked away material >available to wide audiences. Also, building on our attention to >digital preservation in the Fedora open-source repository system, >Fedora Commons will continue to stress the importance of the >sustainability of digital information in applications of our work." > >About Fedora Commons ><http://www.fedora-commons.org>Fedora Commons is a non-profit >organization whose purpose is to provide sustainable open-source >technologies to help individuals and organizations create, manage, >publish, share, and preserve digital content upon which we form our >intellectual, scientific, and cultural heritage. Since 2001, with >support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cornell University and >the University of Virginia have collaborated on the Fedora Project >which has developed, distributed, and supported innovative >open-source repository software that combines content management, >web services, and semantic technologies. The Fedora software has >been adopted worldwide to support an array of applications including >open-access publishing, scholarly communication, digital libraries, >e-science, archives, and education. > >Fedora Commons will initially be located in the Information Science >Building at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The Executive >Director of Fedora Commons is Sandy Payette, who co-invented the >Fedora architecture and led the Cornell arm of the open-source >Fedora Project. The Board of Directors of Fedora Commons provides >leadership from multiple communities, including open-access >publishing, digital libraries, sciences, and humanities. For more >information, visit http://www.fedora-commons.org. > >About the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation >The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to >advance environmental conservation and cutting-edge scientific >research around the world and improve the quality of life in the San >Francisco Bay Area. The Foundation's Science Program seeks to make >a significant impact on the development of provocative, >transformative scientific research, and increase knowledge in >emerging fields. For more information, visit http://www.moore.org. > > > >-- >Carol Minton Morris >Communications Director >National Science Digital Library (NSDL) >http://NSDL.org > >Communications and Media Director >Fedora Commons >http://www.fedora-commons.org > >Cornell Information Science >301 College Ave. >Ithaca, NY 14850 >607 255-2702 >[log in to unmask] >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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