Centralization of the existing digital library projects at Tufts required software that would allow collections to be leveraged with tools that had already been built to support them in a flexible way. Fedora was chosen because it made it possible to manage the idiosyncrasies of their existing data naturally.
The University of Virginia Library is one of the original implementers of Fedora, as well as being half the co-development team funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to turn the original Fedora research implementation into functional digital object repository architecture.
The University of Maryland Libraries have built a repository using Fedora that expresses multiple contextual relationships between objects and incorporates a strong administrative back-end to enable local digital object management for staff, as well as a public interface that enables cross-collection searching.
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