| Abstract: | The Fedora Project continues to be devoted to the goal of providing flexible open-source digital repository software that can serve as the foundation for many types of information management systems including institutional repositories, digital libraries, multimedia authoring systems, archival repositories, educational software, and more.
This session will provide an overview of new features of Fedora 2.0 including the ability to define relationships among digital objects, the new RDF-based Resource Index for querying "the graph" of inter-related objects, the new and simple XML format for encoding Fedora objects, and a new mass-update utility.
Next, a preview of the upcoming Fedora 2.1 release (May 2005) will be offered with special attention given to the new authentication plug-in architecture and the XACML-based authorization module. Finally, a review of the Fedora Phase II development priorities and the new Fedora Service Framework will be presented. New services on the docket will be highlighted, including object ingest, workflow, preservation, advanced searching, and repository federation.
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