Fedora: Project Integration Opportunities

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Fedora Project Integration Opportunities

• Mellon OS Retreat
• March 2005

Sandy Payette Cornell University
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Opportunities

• Fedora Inside
• Sakai
• Sophie(TK4)
• OSPI
• Kuali
• Plone on top of Fedora (possible Cornell Lab of
  Orn)
• But what is the definition of the repository they
  seek?
• What are perceived barriers to entry?
• Are they just looking for simple document storage
  or virtualized file system?
• Fedora is flexible to be used in a very simple
  way or as a service framework
• RIT Shared Strategy for Open Source Practices
• Focus on service-based frameworks
• License issues
• Governance, sustainability models
• Software distribution (e.g., version evolution
  issues)

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Opportunities

• RDF and Semantic Web (Fedora, Simile, VUE,
  others)
• Interoperable searching across DSpace, Fedora,
• How should Fedora share its RDF metadata?
• RDF Object disseminations
• Resource Index RDF query
• Harvestable?
• Available NOW - Fedora Resource Index (RDF)
• Supports direct query using RDQL/SPARQL
• Has both descriptive and structural metadata
• Can be augmented with more metadata assertions
• Can be exported for merger into other graphs
• Joint Investigations
• RDF Tools (esp. browsing)
• interoperable complex object overlay using RDF
  like Cornell/LANLs Graphite
• security policy in the RDF information space
• Distributed graph query?
• Understand scalability, especially with
  inferencing

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Opportunities

• Security (Fedora and Lionshare/ECL)
• Immediate interest in the model for secure
  passing of credentials with attributes among
  services in Fedora Service Framework (SAML
  packages)
• Shibboleth in web services context esp. dealing
  with the n-tier problem
• PKI
• For service-to-service authN
• Explore end-user authN possibilities