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What is Fedora?

These are one-sentence descriptions of Fedora in no particular order. Please vote for whichever ideas resonate with you. Feel free to add comments to any idea, or add new ideas of your own.


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Fedora is backed by a thriving community
by David
 
Yes, it is, and this is important. We need more than this, though, because there are persistence ... more
by Mike Giarlo
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Christopher Awre, Rruggaber1, Jim Coble and 9 more

Fedora is standards-based
by David
 
Although I'd couch this more as "Fedora supports X standards that you recognize and care about."
by Steve M
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Rruggaber1, Neil, Jim Coble and 6 more

Fedora provides a proven framework to leverage, and is faster and better than starting from scratch
by David
 
I like this as a bit of an amalgamation of the "flexibility" and "thriving community" points. The... more
by Steve Marks
 
Also, I think this is one of the statements that best demonstrates actual *value*. =)
by Steve M
 
Please don't use the word "leverage".
3
 
+1 with the amendment suggested above.
by Stefano
 
I'm not sure we can argue fcrepo4 has been proven yet.
by cbeer
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Jim Coble, David Chandek-Stark, Stefano and 2 more

Durable means that content in Fedora’s is meant to last for the longterm; the design is digital preservation-friendly
by David
 
This is always a bit of a weird assertion, but I think it's important. Maybe highlighting that it... more
1
 
The point of preventing/avoiding platform lock-in is important.
by awoods
2
 
this is meaningful to a broad audience. straight forward, no jargon.
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Christopher Awre, Rruggaber1, debra and 12 more

Extensible means you can use it to piece together services and functions for operating on your digital content
by David
 
I'm not sure this is really quite true. Fedora is the core of a repository infrastructure, but it... more
by A. Soroka
 
We have extended some minor areas for our use at ICPSR. Additionally the API will address this is... more
by Murph
 
This feels like something many systems enable now, so not unique
by Christopher Awre
1
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Tom Murphy
Flexible means it doesn’t shoehorn you into a model that’s not fit for your needs
by David
 
I would add that it can evolve as your needs change
by Neil Jefferies
1
 
This can be very powerful, as it highlights an aspect of future proofing.
by Christopher Awre
 
Conversely, it depends on your audience, as some will like being told what models there are and h... more
by Christopher Awre
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Christopher Awre, Neil Jefferies, Jim Coble and 2 more

Fedora stands for Flexible, Extensible, Durable Object Repository Architecture
by David
 
The repository platform formally known as...? It would need a re-vamp to continue using this
by Christopher Awre
1
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Tom Murphy
Fedora comes out of the digital library & research space, where “standard” solutions were often not a fit
by David
 
To avoid overloading of "standard", maybe use "off-the-shelf".
by awoods
4
 
This may turn away who does not belong to libraries or research, ahem... How about "humanities... more
by Stefano
1
 
Good to highlight that it has come out of a need to address multiple scenarios. Does it matter w... more
by Christopher Awre
1
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Christopher Awre
You can use it to assemble and orchestrate any services IT services needed to process your digital content
by David
 
I'm not sure what this means.
by David Chandek-Stark
 
Is this more that Fedora can be a component part of a wider architecture to help process digital ... more
by Christopher Awre
2
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Evviva Weinraub
Tom Murphy
You can use it to manage digital content of any type—from the simplest to the most complex
by David
 
Just as you can use any other database or programming language. Maybe it's better to focus on the... more
by Ralf
 
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Christopher Awre, Bess Sadler, Yinlin Chen and 15 more

Fedora is open source
by David
 
and community supported
by Declan Fleming
1
 
with Declan's point added, I think this is a better expression than just community supported.
by Neil Jefferies
2
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Rruggaber1, Neil Jefferies, Jim Coble and 5 more

Fedora lets you manage, preserve, and provide access to your digital content
by David
 
And preservation is becoming more and more important.
by Susan Lafferty
2
 
"preserve" is a slippery term...
by Declan Fleming
 
We should word this carefully. From my perspective, Fedora has always framed its place in the pre... more
by Mike Giarlo
1
 
As a buzzphrase it's good but as a value proposition it might need breaking down a bit.
by Neil Jefferies
 
It is a part of a preservation ecosystem
by Rruggaber1
1
 
Fedora is a valuable/vital cog in enabling the management, preservation and access to your digita... more
by Christopher Awre
11
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Christopher Awre, Tom Murphy, Ginny Boyer and 8 more

Fedora is a digital repository
by David
 
Not to sound like a heretic, but I wonder if it might be timely to challenge this as a value prop... more
by Mike Giarlo
1
 
I'm going bite, simply b/c I think this is another way of saying "Fedora lets you manage, preserv... more
by David Chandek-Stark
1
 
It it clear what "digital repository" means? In the UK, "repository" as a word is loaded with Ope... more
by Neil Jefferies
1
 
Although is there an opportunity to reclaim what a digital repository is for the future?
by Christopher Awre
3
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Christopher Awre
David Chandek-Stark
Jim Tuttle
Fedora is community-led, standards-based digital repository software
by Rob Cartolano
 
It means anyone in the community with the requisite skills can add to the code. Fedora doesn't ha... more
by Susan Lafferty
1
 
This should be combined with the "open source" assertion: "Fedora is community-led, standards-bas... more
by A. Soroka
2
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Jared Whiklo, Ralf, Rruggaber1 and 5 more

Fedora is community-led, standards-based digital repository software that lets you manage, preserve, and provide access to your digital content in a flexible way.
by Evviva Weinraub
 
This is a merging of a few of the statements that NU feels have value.
by Evviva Weinraub
1
 
It is part of a preservation ecosystem but not a total solution.
by Rruggaber1
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Bess Sadler, Tom Cramer, Jim Tuttle and 6 more

Fedora's standardization allows you to develop custom workflows and interfaces to your content
by Patrick Yott
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Fedora's use of RDF makes is possible to join the LOD movement
by Patrick Yott
 
Needs some rewording...
by Patrick Yott
1
 
Fedora embraces linked data principles at its core.
1
 
I actually think I is one of the most important aspects of Fedora even if no-one realises it yet.
by Neil Jefferies
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Christopher Awre, Neil Jefferies, Declan Fleming and 1 more

Fedora enables you to model resources exactly as you envision them.
by awoods
 
This can be a double-edged sword. Many like the ability to model, others want to have it deliver... more
by Christopher Awre
2
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Christopher Awre
Mike Giarlo
Fedora provides durable infrastructure for expanding the linked data web.
by awoods
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Fedora is used as the basis for a wide variety of successful digital repository and digital asset management applications.
by Jon Dunn
 
I think this "infrastructural" positioning is actually the correct one for Fedora. How we make th... more
by Neil Jefferies
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Christopher Awre, Bess Sadler, Jared Whiklo and 5 more

Fedora provides a common back end digital repository that can be extended with many common web front end platforms.
by Declan Fleming
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Fedora is the hub of a scalable institutional repository architecture
by David Chandek-Stark
 
It might be better to drop "institutional" since the idea that connected institutional repositori... more
by Ralf
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5
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Bess Sadler, Ginny Boyer, Mike Giarlo and 2 more

Comments

David Chandek-Stark

I tried to edit an argument, but it seemed not to persist the change.

Mon, Aug 15, 2016

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Stefano C

It would be useful to separate these points between "features" and "meta-features" (or whatever you want to call them) in the final paper. The former being concrete statements about what Fedora as a product does, who it serves, what it solves, etc. and the latter not easily measurable values such as the community, cohesion of the team, responsiveness, open governance, transparency as a guideline for OS code, data standards, project mission...

Fri, Aug 12, 2016

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