Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index. (more)Wilper Chris, Aaron Birkland. Presentation Summary: "MPTStore: Implementing a fast, scalable, and stable RDBMS-backed triplestore for Fedora and the NSDL". On MPT Store: A Fast, Scalable, and Stable Resource Index. In The Open Repositories Conference 2007. 2007-01-23~26. San Antonio, Texas. http://dltj.org/2007/01/fedora-mptstore/
Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. (more) Rodgers Richard, MacKenzie Smith. Presentation Summary: "Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project". On Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project. In The Open Repositories Conference 2007. 2007-01-23~26. San Antonio, Texas. http://dltj.org/2007/01/simile/.
This morning, Sandy Payette of Cornell University and FEDORA project co-director, gave an update on the FEDORA project including a statement of a vision for FEDORA's future, information about the emerging FEDORA Commons non-profit, and a status report/roadmap for the software itself. Below is a summary based on my notes of Sandy's comments and slide content. (more) Payette, Sandy. Presentation Summary: "A Vision for FEDORA's Future, an Implementation Plan to Get There, and a Project Update". On A Vision for FEDORA's Future, an Implementation Plan to Get There, and a Project Update. In The Open Repositories Conference 2007. 2007-01-23~26. San Antonio, Texas. http://dltj.org/2007/01/fedora-update/