Fedora—A Repository for the Future: New Fedora Initiative Underway | DuraSpace

"A group of stakeholders from the Fedora community have come together to begin the process of planning a three year software development project that will direct new resources toward a major Fedora overhaul, adding capabilities that will make Fedora the repository platform of choice for the future.  The group anticipates that improvements will include features such as greater scalability, data management support, storage flexibility, and others the community has been requesting. This new initiative is being called Fedora Futures. The Coalition of Networked Information 2012 Fall Meeting held in Washington D.C. Dec. 10-11 was the setting for a session that introduced the Fedora Futures community initiative. Members of Fedora Futures announced the project and led a discussion on the future of the Fedora Repository that included a review of the current state of Fedora, the proponents and objectives of the Futures initiative, and a review on the use cases, stakeholders, high level requirements and processes which are guiding the project.  The group is now seeking broader community input and will be reaching out to current DuraSpace sponsors and others in the near future.  The discussion was standing room only, with 75 interested attendees packed into the venue. The presentation is available on the Fedora Futures wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home. The discussion at CNI revolved around one central question, posed by Mark Leggott, University Librarian at Prince Edward Island and chair of the Fedora Futures Steering Group: 'Given the success and value of Fedora as an open source, digital repository over the last 12 years, how can the community marshal an effort to enhance the platform in order to meet the known and emerging needs and opportunities in the repository arena?' ..."