notes in Fedora User Conference 2006
I took some notes in the Fedora user conference 2006. Disclaimer: I am not a Fedora user; and the conference doesn't have proceedings and presentation is not online -- so read with caution.
The conference is nice but somehow difficult to summarize because many presentations are project-oriented. So I will try to summarize them in several perspective: (a) core functionalities (b) interesting project (c) some observations and thinkings.
(a) core functionalities
RDF triple store: A very interesting part of Fedora is its usage of RDF and triple store, as I have always been interesting in the scalability of RDF triple store. Dean B. Krafft of Cornell gave some interesting numbers about NSDL 2.0 usage of Fedora. NSDL 2.0 handles some ~2M digital objects, with 70 RDF tuples for each object, overall Kowari triple store has 163 Million triples.
Content model: The ongoing development of Fedora Core includes "content model", such as structure/ontology for thesis, article, etc, and dynamic dissemination associating with "content model". The question is how to reach agreement on common ontology.
Dissemination/behaviour: This seems like a pretty active area, it's about given a digital object, how can you associate services with this object. DLF Aquifer project has an interesting concept of "AssetActions", which defines an XML schema of associating behaviors with object, initial experiment based on Fedora.
(b) projects
This is perhaps the most interesting part of the conference, there are several ambitious, national project using Fedora as core service, including NSDL, German's eSciDoc, Aussie's ARROW, and DART, and some works by Harris Group. These projects have a theme of building workflow system for scholarly communication in a large scale. Although information can be overwhelming in some cases, it's really a good headstart to take a further look at these initiatives.
(c) thoughts
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when moving left to right, the changes are more likely, repository is expected to be stable.
The conference is nice but somehow difficult to summarize because many presentations are project-oriented. So I will try to summarize them in several perspective: (a) core functionalities (b) interesting project (c) some observations and thinkings.
(a) core functionalities
RDF triple store: A very interesting part of Fedora is its usage of RDF and triple store, as I have always been interesting in the scalability of RDF triple store. Dean B. Krafft of Cornell gave some interesting numbers about NSDL 2.0 usage of Fedora. NSDL 2.0 handles some ~2M digital objects, with 70 RDF tuples for each object, overall Kowari triple store has 163 Million triples.
Content model: The ongoing development of Fedora Core includes "content model", such as structure/ontology for thesis, article, etc, and dynamic dissemination associating with "content model". The question is how to reach agreement on common ontology.
Dissemination/behaviour: This seems like a pretty active area, it's about given a digital object, how can you associate services with this object. DLF Aquifer project has an interesting concept of "AssetActions", which defines an XML schema of associating behaviors with object, initial experiment based on Fedora.
(b) projects
This is perhaps the most interesting part of the conference, there are several ambitious, national project using Fedora as core service, including NSDL, German's eSciDoc, Aussie's ARROW, and DART, and some works by Harris Group. These projects have a theme of building workflow system for scholarly communication in a large scale. Although information can be overwhelming in some cases, it's really a good headstart to take a further look at these initiatives.
(c) thoughts
- RDF store or RDBMS?
- What's essential functionalities of a repository?
- A nice graph of describing repository:
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when moving left to right, the changes are more likely, repository is expected to be stable.
- New scholarly communication system
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