<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from DuraSpace. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b></span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">December 21, 2009</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Contact: <a href="mailto:tstaples@duraspace.org" target="_blank">Thornton Staples</a>; <span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><a href="mailto:cwilper@duraspace.org" target="_blank">Chris
Wilper</a></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold">Go Get It: Fedora 3.3
Available Now!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><span style="color:black"><i><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA</span></font></i></span><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"> Today, the
DuraSpace not-for-profit organization and the Fedora digital repository project
announced the release of Fedora 3.3 (</span></font></span><span style="color:#2750AB"><u><a href="http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S</span></font></a></u></span><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">). This release marks a new milestone in the process of
developing the Fedora open source software. For the first time, the Fedora
community came together under the leadership of a Community Release Manager who
facilitated the software development process and the integration of community
contributions. The effort was led
by Kai Strnad, Software Engineer with FIZ Karlsruhe (</span></font><a href="http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/</span></font></a><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">) and
member of the eSciDoc project team (</span></font><a href="https://www.escidoc.org/" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">https://www.escidoc.org/</span></font></a><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">).</span></font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana">Download Fedora 3.3 here: <span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(39, 80, 171)"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S" target="_blank">http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S</a>.</span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Thornton Staples, Director of
the Fedora Project from DuraSpace, observed, “The process of developing open-source
software with a community-based process requires dedicated effort by many
community participants, both developers and users. Though there is a perception that open-source software
gets written by hobbyist programmers working on their own late at night, it is
more commonly written by programmers working for institutions that are
committed to the software and understand its shared benefits. FIZ-Karlsruhe has done us all a great
service by making Strnad available to manage this release, getting us off to a
running start in a community-led development process.”</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Chris Wilper, Fedora Technical
Lead and Developer from DuraSpace, said, "It's exciting to see so many
contributors stepping forward to take a hand in Fedora's evolution. A wide variety of perspectives and a
willingness to give back to the community are key to making the Fedora software
better for everyone."</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">There are many new features in </span></font><a href="http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Fedora 3.3</span></font></a><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"> including:</span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• </span></font></span></span><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Support for relationships
among datastreams within digital objects, including API methods for
manipulating relationships and indexing</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Integration of the </span></font><u><a href="http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/Fedora+Security+Layer+(FeSL)" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Fedora
Enhanced Security Layer</span></font></a></u><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"> (FESL), a new community-developed module
to support a wider range of authentication methods</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Improvements to the Fedora
REST API</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Support for retrieving
content using a File URI scheme during ingest</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Support for Microsoft SQL
Server</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Support for Mulgara to 2.1.4,
proving a significant performance boost</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Upgrade of bundled Tomcat to
version 6</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Support for HTTP Proxy server
for getting external content</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Improvements and enhancements
to the Fedora documentation</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">• Bug fixes, improving the
overall stability of the repository</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Many individuals and
institutions support the development of the Fedora open source repository
software. The Fedora Project
would like to extend thanks to members of the worldwide community whose contributions
made the release of Fedora 3.3 possible, especially Benjamin Armintor, Columbia
University; </span></font></span><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Asger Askov Blekinge</span></font><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">, State
and University Library, Denmark; Steve Bayliss, Acuity Unlimited; Aaron
Birkland, NSDL-Cornell University; Bill Branan, DuraSpace; Daniel Davis,
Cornell University; Gert Pedersen, Technical University of Denmark; Edwin Shin,
Media Shelf; Kai Strnad, Fedora 3.3 Community Release Manager, FIZ Karlsruhe;
Chris Wilper, DuraSpace; and Andrew Woods, DuraSpace.</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">The Fedora Project is supported
by the DuraSpace not-for-profit organization.</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><b><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">GET INVOLVED!</span></font></b></span><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">The Fedora development community
welcomes new participants. Meetings of the Fedora Committers team are held
weekly to discuss overall development strategy, prioritize new features, and
plan new releases. All are welcome
to participate or to just listen in.
Archived audio, IRC logs, upcoming meeting agendas, and dial-in details
can be found at:</span></font></span><span style="color:#2750AB"><u><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCREPO/Developer+Meetings" target="_blank">http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCREPO/Developer+Meetings</a>.</span></font></u></span><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">ABOUT THE FEDORA PROJECT</span></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Fedora (<a href="http://Fedora-Commons.org" target="_blank">http://Fedora-Commons.org</a>) is a robust, modular
repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It
is especially suited for digital libraries and archives, both for access and
preservation. It is also used to provide specialized access to very large and
complex digital collections of historic and cultural materials as well as
scientific data. Fedora's flexibility enables it to integrate gracefully with
many types of enterprise and web-based systems, offering scalability (e.g.,
millions of objects) and durability (e.g., all of the information is maintained
in files with no software dependency, from which the complete repository can be
rebuilt at any time). It also provides the ability to express rich sets of
relationships among digital resources and to query the repository using the
semantic web's SPARQL query language. Fedora has a worldwide installed user
base that includes academic and cultural heritage organizations, universities,
research institutions, university libraries, national libraries, and government
agencies.</span></font><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-weight:bold"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">ABOUT
DURASPACE</span></font></span></span></p><p><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">DuraSpace (<a href="http://DuraSpace.org" target="_blank">http://DuraSpace.org</a>) is a 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide
as solutions for open access, institutional repositories, digital libraries,
digital archives, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and
innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve
libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage institutions, and
other knowledge stewards. The
organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access
repository application, the Fedora open repository platform, and the Mulgara
semantic database. DuraSpace is
the home of DuraCloud, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing
cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. The DuraSpace team includes recognized
leaders and experts in the management of digital information. The team works with an active and
diverse international community committed to the durability of digital
resources.</span></font></p>
<span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">The DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of </span></font><i><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">durability</span></font></i></span><span style="color:black"><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">
of digital content. Our values are
expressed in our organizational byline, “open technologies for durable digital
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