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Outlook displays after the ascii-fication perpetrated by this venerable
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http://duraspace.org/articles/2394


Congratulations to everyone who contributed!

Mark
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On 12/4/14, 9:40 AM, "Carol Minton Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
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>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.