Dave Kennedy and Jennie Levine present at Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference
On July 9, DCR co-managers Dave Kennedy and Jennie Levine hosted a presentation at the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference (MADLC) entitled Implementing a Digital Repository with Fedora. The talk focused on the development and implementation of the University of Maryland’s Digital Collections repository, based on the Fedora digital asset management platform.
The presentation explored the technical and organizational issues faced in mounting a relatively complex architecture with limited resources, as well as the various metadata schemes used in the system and the development of an API, object and content classifications, and web services. Issues of migration, authentication and archival storage featured prominently in the discussion. The presentation concluded by addressing future enhancements and plans for development, as well as stumbling blocks and lessons learned from the process of building a digital collections repository.
The PowerPoint slides of the presentation are available for viewing here.