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. Read more »
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. Read more »
Rutgers University Libraries have developed a workflow management system to create and ingest objects and metadata as well as user tools to create a Fedora-based cyber-infrastructure that is flexible, user-oriented, useful and meaningful to a wide range of users. Our design focus is on preservation in a trusted repository environment, user-centric tools that enable the creative use and local management of information, particularly scholarly communications, and a commitment to serving a wide range of users and colleagues, through collaborative projects, such as the statewide cultural heritage portal, New Jersey Digital Highway, development partnerships with other Fedora repository sites, and forthcoming open source licensing for our service tools. Read more »
The IVRLA is an Irish government funded project based in University College Dublin. The Project is a component of the research programme of the Humanities Institute of Ireland (UCD HII) and its aims are to support leading-edge research by enabling access to digitised content and to undertake direct research on digitisation and digital repositories. Read more »
The University of Maryland Libraries began developing its digital repository using Fedora in 2005. Fedora was adopted in order to develop a repository that could express multiple contextual relationships between objects; to incorporate both a strong administrative back-end to enable local digital object management for staff contributing to the repository, as well as a public interface that enables cross-collection searching of digital objects in multiple formats. Read more »