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If you want a more readable version of this announcement than at least my Outlook displays after the ascii-fication perpetrated by this venerable listserv, see http://duraspace.org/articles/2394 Congratulations to everyone who contributed! Mark -- Mark Notess Head, User Experience and Digital Media Services Library Technologies Indiana University Bloomington Libraries +1.812.856.0494 [log in to unmask] On 12/4/14, 9:40 AM, "Carol Minton Morris" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Production Release‹Not Your Dad¹s Fedora >Groundbreaking new capabilities make Fedora 4 the repository platform of >choice for right now and into the future.Winchester, MA The >international Fedora repository community and DuraSpace are very pleased >to announce the production release of Fedora 4. This significant release >signals the effectiveness of an international and complex community >source project in delivering a modern repository platform with features >that meet or exceed current use cases in the management of institutional >digital assets. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in >scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, >ease of use and more.Fedora 4 features were collaboratively chosen and >developed by a virtual team of developers and stakeholders from around >the globe. With DuraSpace support this committed team has ensured that >Fedora Repository software will meet the emerging needs of the academic >research community now and for the next decade.€ DOWNLOAD Fedora 4: >https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads€ RELEASE NOTES: >https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0.0+Release+Notes€ >DOCUMENTATION: >https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA40/Fedora+4.0+Documentation€ >VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Mg_QFDAspoE >Community KudosRobin Ruggaber, Chair of the Fedora Steering Group and >Library Chief Technology Officer at the University of Virginia commented >on Fedora¹s achievements: ³The success of the Fedora community today is >rooted in the way it operates. The community members govern, fund, shape >and produce the solution to meet global repositories¹ needs and >performance requirements. The development is based on what product owners >need and is managed so that everyone in the community can contribute >without individually exhausting human or financial resources. We are >maximizing the power of distributed development and ownership and are >rewarded with a sustainable, low risk, moderate cost solution.² >Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services, Collections at The Art >Institute of Chicago offered his reasons for adopting Fedora 4: ³We have >searched far and wide for a system that could store our large and diverse >collection of art objects and their related assets, integrate in a >complex architecture of legacy applications and data sources, and make >our digital resources available in a wide variety of ways. >We have adopted Fedora 4 very early for its scalability and flexibility >in all its aspects, its adhesion to solid standards, the project's >long-sighted goals and the extremely talented and motivated community >around it.² >Fedora 4 support for linked data‹what it means for youThe broad concept >of linked data is the idea that the semantic web can connect everything. >Fedora 4 makes that concept real. >With built-in linked data support Fedora 4 offers the ability to develop >discovery tools in compliance with the W3C Linked Data Platform >specification. The long-held linked data promise of broad and deeply >faceted discovery on the open web is based on the concept that >information can be exchanged using the resource description framework >(RDF) as a standard model. The ability to share data openly and take >advantage of the semantic web means that content is not ³inside a silo² >that can only be discovered and re-used if repository software adheres to >standardization and interoperability. With Fedora 4 the ³Web is a >repository² providing new kinds of digital collections and data sources >for services and applications. >Scalability‹how big is bigAs larger data sets, larger files, research >data and multimedia use cases have emerged in the community Fedora 4 is >set to meet the challenge of improved scalability. Fedora 4 repositories >can manage millions and millions of digital files along with extremely >large files of any type running on top of back-end storage systems. This >means that petabytes of storage are available to you because Fedora can >potentially operate on top of any storage system via a pluggable, >expandable connector framework. >Flexibility and extensibility‹plugging into what worksThe strength of >Fedora repository software lies in it¹s native flexibility and >extensibility. Fedora 4 architecture builds on a lightweight core model >with multiple, pluggable components and a standard set of robust APIs. >SecurityFedora 4 provides a pluggable, extensible security framework >capable of supporting a variety of authorization systems. Two initial >systems have been implemented‹role-based authorization and XACML. A >third, based on the emerging W3C Web Access Control standard, is >currently being planned. By decoupling security from the repository core, >Fedora 4 supports existing authorization standards rather than >maintaining a custom security framework. >ClusteringClustering connects multiple Fedora 4 nodes in a network >providing horizontal repository scaling for high-availability use cases. >By configuring two or more replicated Fedora 4 nodes to run behind a >load-balancer, you can evenly distribute web traffic between the nodes to >maximize performance. >Fedora 3.8a solid release to cap off the 3.0 lineFedora 3.8 has always >been planned as a part of Fedora 4 development. The aim was to cap off >the 3.0 line with a solid release for the user community. The Fedora 3.8 >release features an improved REST API interaction with correct headers >returned for better caching along with performance improvements and bug >fixes. >€ DOWNLOAD Fedora 3.8: >https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Downloads€ DOCUMENTATION: >https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Fedora+3.8+Documentation >The Fedora 4 Community of ContributorsMembers >Arizona State University Libraries >Brown University Library >Case Western Reserve University Libraries >Charles Darwin University >Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) >Columbia University Library >Cornell University >Docuteam GmbH >Durham University >Duke University Libraries >FIZ Karlsruhe >George Washington University >Ghent University Library >Gothenburg University Library >Indiana University >ICPSR >Johns Hopkins University Libraries >La Trobe University >London School of Economics & Political Science >LYRASIS >Macquarie University >National Library of Medicine >National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru >National Research Council of Canada >Northeastern University Libraries >Northwestern University Libraries >Ohio State >Oregon State >Pennsylvania State University >Princeton University >Rutgers University Libraries >Smithsonian Institution, Office of Research Infomation Services >Stanford University >State and University Library of Denmark >The Art Institute of Chicago >Tufts University >University of Alberta >University of California, Los Angeles >University of California, Santa Barbara >University of Cincinnati >University of Connecticut Libraries >University of Hull >University of Lausanne >University of Manitoba >University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries >University of New South Wales >University of Notre Dame >University of North Carolina >University of Oklahoma Libraries >University of Oxford >University of Pittsburgh >University of Prince Edward Island >University of Rochester Libraries >University of Texas Libraries Austin >University of Toronto >University of Virginia >University of Wisconsin >University of York >Uppsala University Library >Yale University >York University > >Contributors >Sprint Developers >Adam Soroka (University of Virginia) >Andrew Woods (DuraSpace) >Anusha Ranganathan (University of Oxford) >Benjamin Armintor (Columbia University) >Ben Pennell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) >Chris Beer (Stanford University) >Eddie Shin (Digital Curation Experts) >Eric James (Yale University) >Esme Cowles (University of California, San Diego) >Giulia Hill (University of California, Berkeley) >Greg Jansen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) >Jared Whiklo (University of Manitoba) >Jonathan Green (discoverygarden inc.) >Jon Roby (University of Manitoba) >Kevin S. Clarke (University of California, Los Angeles) >Longshou Situ (University of California, San Diego) >Michael Durbin (University of Virginia) >Mike Daines (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) >Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (University of Maryland) >Nigel Banks (discoverygarden inc.) >Osman Din (Yale University) >Paul Pound (University of Prince Edward Island) >Scott Prater (University of Wisconsin) >Vincent Nguyen (Centers for Disease Control) >Ye Cao (Max Planck Digital Library >Yinlin Chen (Virginia Tech) >Yuqing Jiang (discoverygarden inc.) > >Community Developers >Aaron Coburn (Amherst College) >Chris Colvar (Indiana University) >Frank Asseg (FIZ Karlsruhe) >Kai Sternad (Independant) >Nikhil Trivedi (Art Institute of Chicago) >Rob Sanderson (Stanford University) >Robin Taylor (University of Edinburgh) >How Does DuraSpace Help?DuraSpace (duraspace.org) works collaboratively >with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and >sustainability of the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides >business support services that include technical leadership, >sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing >and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and >administration. >About FedoraFedora (fedorarepository.org) is an open source project that >provides flexible, extensible and durable digital object management >software. First released in 2004, it has hundreds of adopters worldwide, >with deep roots in the research, scientific, intellectual and cultural >heritage communities. It is supported by its community of users, and >stewarded by DuraSpace.