Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

[fodmap]

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

[jasoneckert]

It took me far too long to figure this out from their site, but when I did, the project looked far less interesting.

For a while there, I thought the "been in existence for 20+ years and our users represent an engaged, supportive and invested global community of users focused on sustainability and growth" was the Fedora Project extending their expertise in file organization and distribution to other use cases.

But on the bright side, I now have a link I can use to confuse my students with (to keep them out of their comfort zone and promote deep research).

[macintux]

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

[RickJWagner]

Thanks for that explanation. Totally threw me for a minute.

[j45]

Didn't think about the Linux distro at all because the software was clearly described as otherwise.

[actionfromafar]

And they have Fedora Slack(ware)!

[sitta]

Perhaps also of interest is the storage format that Fedora 6/7 uses.

https://ocfl.io/

[ThinkingGuy]

Are there any images (or actual demos) of the actual user interface? Every variant of search for "Fedora repository screen shot" just brings back instructions for taking a desktop screen shot on the Fedora operating system.

[cramcgrab]

Wow. Java 11. Looks like a great project for an update. Anybody know where we can get a group of CS students to update the code with a modern toolset? Used to be MIT, Clarkson, Cornell, Berkeley, RIT, etc cranked this stuff out.

[treesknees]

https://fedorarepository.org/232540-2/

> Upgrades for over 40 dependency libraries, including upgrading Java 11 to Java 21.

[jjice]

Total tangent from the OP, but neat to see RIT listed here (among some excellent universities)! What kind of things has RIT done like this? Just a curious alum.

[Yehoshaphat]

It is interesting to me that I came across this project earlier this week (MLS student, procrastinating via browsing Awesome-Lists), and now it's here on YN.

Maybe some stoner can vibe-rebase this with Rust.

[moron4hire]

Do they have a separate website for a git repo, e.g. Github? Between me reading the page in bed this morning and then driving to work, the website seems to have gone down.

[Dwedit]

Their Github is https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo

[zoobab]

FTP was better.

[Dwedit]

FTP is great for the hackers who want to sniff cleartext user passwords over insecure public wifi.

[jbstack]

Wrong Fedora

[esseph]

It's not RH/IBM, but you wouldn't know that because you didn't read anything about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244011

From the website;

Name History

In 1997 a research project at Cornell University was named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA). In 1998, Payette and Lagoze published an article about their work referencing Fedora, and later that year software with the same name was released to the public.

[linhns]

How to not name your project, exhibit 1

[macintux]

It's older than Fedora Linux.