http://dltj.org/article/why-fedora-because-you-dont-need-fedora/ We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://dltj.org/article/why-fedora-because-you-dont-need-fedora/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Fedora, Objects, Datastreams, Filesystems, and a Correction in Disruptive Library Technology Jester Sun, 14 May 2006 21:02:27 +0000 http://dltj.org/2006/04/why-fedora-because-you-dont-need-fedora/#comment-77 [...] In an earlier post, I extolled the virtues of Fedora as an ideal candidate for digital preservation because “[a]ll of the metadata (descriptive, preservation, and relationship to other objects) and managed datastreams that make up a digital object are ’serialized’ to a single XML file on a file system.” Well, as I found out last week, it isn’t quite that straight forward. ¶ [...] [...] In an earlier post, I extolled the virtues of Fedora as an ideal candidate for digital preservation because “[a]ll of the metadata (descriptive, preservation, and relationship to other objects) and managed datastreams that make up a digital object are ’serialized’ to a single XML file on a file system.” Well, as I found out last week, it isn’t quite that straight forward. ¶ [...]

]]> http://dltj.org/article/why-fedora-because-you-dont-need-fedora/comment-page-1/#comment-49 τεχνοσοφια » The Jester’s Case for Fedora Tue, 02 May 2006 21:54:13 +0000 http://dltj.org/2006/04/why-fedora-because-you-dont-need-fedora/#comment-49 [...] An advantage of using the Fedora system, as outlined in Why Fedora? Because You Don’t Need Fedora, is that due to modular design and adherence to more or less open standards, one is not necessarily wedded to Fedora for the foreseeable future. Items in a Fedora repository are serialized as XML objects, either in the Fedora-METS or FOXML format. While some of this information is copied into a relational database system and an RDF triplestore for speed and convenience, it is all intact within the serialized XML objects which reside in a predictable directory hierarchy on the local filesystem. There are at least two advantages to this design: [...] [...] An advantage of using the Fedora system, as outlined in Why Fedora? Because You Don’t Need Fedora, is that due to modular design and adherence to more or less open standards, one is not necessarily wedded to Fedora for the foreseeable future. Items in a Fedora repository are serialized as XML objects, either in the Fedora-METS or FOXML format. While some of this information is copied into a relational database system and an RDF triplestore for speed and convenience, it is all intact within the serialized XML objects which reside in a predictable directory hierarchy on the local filesystem. There are at least two advantages to this design: [...]

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