www.apsr.edu.au 1 Making Fedora easier to implement with Fez A free open source content model and workflow management front-end to Fedora Christiaan Kortekaas Lead programmer, Fez and eScholarshipUQ Testbed Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
Kortekaas, Christiaan Gerard (2007). Making Fedora easier to implement with Fez. In: Webster, Keith and Bennett, Andrew Open Repositories 2007, San Antonio, Texas USA, (1-47). 23-26 January, 2007.
The University of Queensland, Australia has developed Fez, a world-leading user-interface and management system for Fedora-based institutional repositories, which bridges the gap between a repository and users. Christiaan Kortekaas, Andrew Bennett and Keith Webster will review this open source software that gives institutions the power to create a comprehensive repository solution without the hassle.
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www.apsr.edu.au1
Making Fedora easier to implement with Fez
A free open source content model and workflow management front-end to Fedora
Christiaan Kortekaas
Lead programmer, Fez and eScholarshipUQ TestbedAustralian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
www.apsr.edu.au2
The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
• Funded by the Australian Federal Government’s Department of Education, Science, and Training over 2004-2007 to establish a centre of excellence in digital collections management.
• APSR is a coordinated set of programs and projects that address strategic issues of digital sustainability, eResearch facilitation, repository management and system development.
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What is Fez?
A free, open source, flexible, highly configurable digital repository and workflow management system based on Fedora
Manages all kinds of documentspublications, images, learning objects, spreadsheets, databases and datasets, course materials, exam papers, institutional records, documents or a mixture of all of the above …
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Why did we develop it?
• 2002 – ePrints repository for research publications with eprints.org software
• 2004 – APSR Project (DEST grant)Identified multiple UQ digital data collectionsDeveloped ResearchFinder tool to point to distributed repositories at UQ
• 2005 – Single repository needed to house and preserve all kinds of (orphaned) UQ research output
• 2006 – UQ eSpace (based on Fez)UQ Research Assessment ExerciseShibboleth integration (MAMS project)
• 2007At end of presentation…
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Fez technologies
• Free, open source + platform- independentPHP 5.0+ MySQL 5A Server (Linux, Windows, Mac)Webserver software (Apache, others untested but possible)Fedora 2.1.1 (GPL)
Java SDK, JRE 1.4+Built-in Tomcat Server (2.2 can be a .war file)Fedora 2.0 also supported with a configchange
Fedora 2.2 support on its way!
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Fez Application Structure
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Distinctive Benefits
• Dynamic GUI configurable document modelling and workflow engine
• Powerful search index• GUI managed security with Shibboleth
federated authentication, authorization and WAYF
• Preservation services
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GUI Content Model Editor
• One major difference between Fez + Fedora and DSpace/ePrints/Vital *
• Handles different content models -defined by XSDs
• New models/XSDs can be added at any time
• XSDs trigger input screens• Each object has layers of metadata and
• 537+ Users• One main content administrator• Many liaison librarians assisting UQ
schools deposit• The 2008 Australian Research Quality
Framework is an increasingly powerful driver for self archiving of content likely to be included in that process
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UQ ePrints migration to UQ eSpace
• Imported ~3700 objects• Comprehensive import
Data, Users, Download Statistics
• Fez 1.3 comes with an ePrints migration batch import system
• Detailed ePrints migration instructions will appear on the Fez Wiki soon
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e-Spacio
• U.N.E.D. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia translated Fez into Spanish during 2006
• Currently 10,000 objects• The library does the 80% of the deposit
of content in the repository, the rest is self-archiving by faculty
• One person/3 hours per week content administration
• 11,000 visitors per month
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Digitale Læremidler
• 4 programmers 2 months, skinning and adding features to Fez 1.2
Fedora -> Fez -> Custom interface• Fez used for indexing, data entry,
security, content modelling• Usability expert designed skin• Contributed back to into Fez for 1.3
and 1.4 releasesRSS, LOM export, DYM searching, GUI
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Fez Sites & Contributors
• e-Spacio at the Universidad Nacionalde Educación a Distancia (Spain)
• Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
• FVT Servicios Telemáticos S.A. (Chile)• Catalyst IT Limited (New Zealand)• Emory University Libraries (USA)• Some lurkers…
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(SCREENSHOTS OF CATALYST SITES)
• (coming Monday)
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Photo of CK with Catalyst Fez team
• (coming Monday)
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Goals for 2007
• Make Fez easier to deploy and testPackage Fez into a Linux distributionMore documentation in Fez WikiInstall and migration “clinics”
• Virtualization and multiple hosting• Make language translation easier• Different display skins per community
or collection
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Fez’s near future
• Fez 1.3 (due in January 07)Made install and admin much easierShibboleth authentication/authorisation option enhancedOAI Provider based on FezACML securityObject history logging with PREMISStatistics by geographical region, MUCH MORE!
• Fez 1.4 (due in Feb 07)Fedora 2.2 support (this week or next)Comment and rating on objects (done)RSS, LOM export, did you mean searching (done)Bulk Move (done) .. and more
• Fez 1.5 (due March/April 07)Move to PostgreSQL as the default dbMuch more – see Fez Wiki Development sectionAggregation of RELS-EXT content models in Fez GUI
• Fez Development APSR funded until end 2007, some strong possibilities afterwards
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Support for Fez
Available via links from Fez site• Lists for Fez-Users, Fez-Developers• Documentation on the Fez Wiki for
administrators• Documentation from the APSR website• Local sites/contributors in your region
2007 will also bring a fee-for-support options• Additional business models for fee-for-
hosting and virtualised servers• Support / install / migration clinics
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Further Resources
• Fez Wikihttp://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/wiki
• Fez Sourceforge site:http://sourceforge.net/projects/fezForums, User and Developer mailing lists, Download page
• Fedora User Group 2006 conference paper: http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:3885