Add to Thorny Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Outreach, Fedora Commons
All are welcome. 2pm - 3pm Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Abstract
The Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) is set of very general architectural abstractions about digital information. Fedora can be used to express a variety of management schemes that support flexible use of digital content that is well positioned to be durable over a very long time. Fedora Commons is a private non-profit corporation that has set up to sustain the open-source Fedora software, under development since 2001. Fedora is in use by a variety of academic, business and government institutions around the world upon as a foundation for such things as institutional repositories, data curation schemes, digital libraries and open access publishing. This talk will introduce Fedora concepts, provide a high level overview of the software and talk about ways it is being used for different information management solutions. It will also discuss Fedora Commons and its community-building activities.
About Thorny
Thornton Staples is currently the Director of Community Strategy at Fedora Commons, Inc. He was the Co-Director for the Fedora Project from its inception in 2001. He has done information architecture consulting for variety of academic and cultural history projects in Europe, Australia and the United States. Previous positions include: Director of Digital Library Research and Development at the University of Virginia Library; Chief, Office of Information Technology at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Project Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia; and Special Projects Coordinator, Academic Computing at the University of Virginia.
A podcast of Thorny Staples Public Presentation will be available, along with more information about his talk.
