[Pasig-discuss] Fwd: AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Feature "Deep Dives"–Research Data and Preservation Support

[Carol Minton Morris]

Dear Community,

As excitement builds around the upcoming release of the beta version of the
redesigned Fedora 4 at Open Repositories
2014<https://www.conftool.com/or2014/sessions.php>,
Fedora 4 Deep Dive articles provide a closer look at software features and
how they answer key community use cases that have driven development. The
first two take a look at Fedora 4 for Research Data and Preservation
Support. Stay tuned for more Fedora 4 Deep Dives, and please feel free to
share these articles with colleagues.

Thank you!

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*Fedora 4 Deep Dive Number One: Support for Research Data*
*Research data support is built into Fedora 4*

"Fedora 4 allows repository managers to support any type of content and
model it however they wish. Multiple research data files can be grouped
together with a single metadata record, or they can be distributed as
separate objects, each with its own metadata. These separate objects can
then be associated with any number of other objects within the repository,
allowing for maximum flexibility." *READ MORE HERE
<http://duraspace.org/fedora-4-deep-dive-number-one-support-research-data>*

*Fedora 4 Deep Dive Number Two: Support for Preservation*
*Designed specifically for the preservation of digital assets–one of the
primary Fedora 4 use cases*

"Fedora 4 provides a strong set of features to support durable storage.
Policy-driven storage allows administrators to define ingest rules such
that files of different types (e.g. images, videos) get routed to different
back-end stores. Checksums can then be calculated when assets are added to
the repository, and fixity checks can be configured to run against these
checksums on a regular basis. Fedora 4 also provides a means to backup the
entire repository and restore everything, including rebuilding an external
search index and/or triplestore, in case of a problem. For extremely large
repositories (e.g. multi-petabyte datastores) a full repository backup and
restore may take a very long time to execute, so Fedora provides object and
tree-level import and export capabilities to selectively restore portions
of the repository." *READ MORE HERE <http://duraspace.org/node/2119>*

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Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
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