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DuraSpace Solutions

The Features & Updates of Fedora 3.6

Presented by Edwin Shin,

Fedora Release Manager, Managing Partner & Technical Director of

MediaShelf

18 October 2012 Fedora 3.6

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Using the Webinar Platform

• 2-way audio for all participants is muted

• We’ll utilize the Chat Window for the Q&A portion or you may use it if you are having technical difficulties

• You may type your question here & hit ‘enter’

18 October 2012 Fedora 3.6

Fedora:Present & Future

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Fedora 3.64

Introduction

2004: NSDL

2004: Fedora Project

2007: Fedora

Commons

2008: MediaSh

elf

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Edwin ShinManaging Partner, MediaShelf

Fedora 3.65

Med

iaS

helf • Est. 2006

• Core Services• Strategy• Training• Development• Support

• Offices• U.S.A.• Singapore

Fed

ora

• REST API• Fedorazon• FeSL• 3.6• 3.6.1• Fedora Support

Services• Fedora Futures

Hyd

ra

• Steering Group• HydraCamp• Hydra

Components• ActiveFedora• Solrizer• OM

• Hydra Heads• Libra• Hydra@Hull• HyPATIA• ScholarSphere

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MediaShelf

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Fedora 3.6 Timeline

Fedora 3.5 18 August 2011

Fedora 3.67 August 2012

Fedora 3.6.16 September

2012

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Fedora 3.6 Contributors

1. Aaron Birkland*, Cornell University2. Adam Soroka*, University of Virginia3. Asger Askov Blekinge*, State & Univ. Library of Denmark4. Ben Armintor*, Columbia University5. Chris Beer, Stanford University6. Chris Wilper*, DuraSpace7. Edwin Shin*, MediaShelf8. Frank Asseg*, FIZ Karlsruhe9. Graham Triggs, BioMed Central10. Gregory Jansen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill11. Jerry Pan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory12. Jiri Kremser, Masaryk University13. Jonathan Green, Discovery Garden14. Stephen Bayliss*, Acuity Unlimited

Fedora 3.68

Replaces Axis 1.3 with CXFMTOM SupportREST SupportSpring Configurable

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3.6: Web Services Framework

Fedora 3.69

Newly Spring configurable components• Server module• SOAP APIs• REST APIs• Security– Policy Enforcement– Authentication

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3.6: More Spring in Your Repository

Fedora 3.610

• A new hints provider API for Akubra• Allow, for example, the low-level

storage module to make decisions about where objects or datastreams are stored based on the provided hints

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Low-level Storage Metadata

Fedora 3.611

• New, “experimental” authentication filter– Enable integration with Single-Sign-On

Services

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Upstream AuthN

Fedora 3.612

• A batch controller for Fedora’s REST API– http://mediashelf.github.com/fedora-bat

ch/

• Adds a new REST API endpoint, e.g.:– http://localhost:8080/fedora/batch/

getDatastreams?pid=demo:1&pid=demo:2&dsid=DC

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fedora-batch

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• A XACML PolicyFinderModule for Hydra rightsMetadata– https

://github.com/projecthydra/rightsmetadata-policyfinder

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rightsmetadata-policyfinder

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End of Life

Legacy AuthN

FeSL AuthN

fcrepo-client-

messaging

fedora-client-

messaging

Fedora 3.615

① Simple, binary upgrade from 3.5, no rebuild

② 3.6.1 is the best, recommended version of Fedora today

① Already in production use② Already part of hydra-jetty

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Should I Upgrade?

Fedora 3.616

• Fedora Support Services– Global support in the U.S., Europe and

Asia, staffed exclusively by Fedora committers

– 20% of subscription fees directly fund ongoing Fedora development by the committers

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Commercial Support

Fedora 3.617

① Java 7② Servlet 3.0③ Fedora 3.6.2④ Fedora 3.7⑤ Fedora Futures

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What’s Next?

Fedora 3.618

• Bugfixes• Release Manager– Adam Soroka, University of Virginia

• Code Freeze– TBD, but ~ 1st November

• Release Date– TBD, but ~ end of November

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Fedora 3.6.2

Fedora 3.619

• Focus– Ease long-term maintenance• Remove “legacy” code that lacks an active

commitment to maintain• OpenJDK 7 support• Servlet 3.0• Java 7

• Release Manager– Ben Armintor, Columbia University

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Fedora 3.7 aka 3-dot-last

Fedora 3.620

Opportunities & Challenges• Research Data

Management• Linked Data• Performance• Scalability

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Fedora Futures

Fedora 3.621

• Product Manager, Pro Tem– Edwin Shin

• CNI Panel Presentation– 10 - 11 December 2012

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Fedora Futures, cont’d

Fedora 3.622

• Weekly developer calls

• Thursdays 9:00 AM U.S. Eastern

• Mailing lists

• fedora-commons-users@lists.sourceforge.net

• fedora-commons-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

• IRC

• chat.freenode.net #duraspace18 October 2012

Get Connected

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One more thing…

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So long,and thanks for all the fish!

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Q & A

Thanks!

edwin.shin@yourmediashelf.com