Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
n. (abbr. Fedora)an open-source software application for managing and disseminating digital resourcesPayette and Lagoze 1998, 41A fundamental requirement of an open architecture for digital libraries is a reliable and secure means to store and access digital content. FEDORA is a digital object and repository architecture designed to achieve these requirements, while at the same time providing extensibility and interoperability.Zhang 2012, 172Digital objects have been ingested into Fedora in their native format. Using Fedora as a test repository has introduced to the library the basic concepts and processes of the acquisition and storage of born-digital material. Building on the experience with Fedora, the library began to define requirements for a digital repository in 2007 . . .Kim and Irwin 2021, 360However, this current access policy will change when UNLV SCA completes the development of a new digital asset management system (DAMS). The new DAMS, built upon Islandora 8 and using Fedora as a backend repository, will allow users to download born-digital media in their native formats.Gilbert et al. 2023, 623The NLM Digital Repository is primarily composed of customized open-source technologies, including Fedora repository software, which provides an underlying object-based framework for structuring, managing, preserving, and disseminating digital content.Fedora 2025Fedora is the flexible, standards-based, open-source repository software built to support long-term digital preservation.
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This software was the result of a project at Cornell University, funded through a Mellon Foundation grant in 1997 and led by Sandy Payette and Carl Lagoze.
