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Making Fedora Easier to Implement with Fez - Christiaan Kortekaas

What is Fez?

Manages all kinds of documents
publications, images, learning objects, spreadsheets, databases and datasets, course materials

Fez technologies

• PHP 5
• MySQL 4.1+
• Apache
• Java SDK
• ImageMagick
• Graphviz
• JHOVE
• Fedora

Unique Benefits

• Dynamic GUI configurabale document modelling and workflow engine
• Powerflow search index
• GUI managed security with Shibboleth federated authentication, authorization and WAYF
• Preservation services

GUI Content Model Editor

• One major difference between Fez+Fedora and DSpace etc
• Handles different content models - defined by XSDs
• New models/XSDs can be added at any time

Fedora Object XML Display

• DC Display
• MODS Display
• Automatic PREMIS Datastream
• RELS-EXT Display
• FezACML Display
• FezMD Display

Workflows in Fez

• Configures the way the user manipulates digital objects
• Create procedures for reviewing and publishing objects
• Automatic processing of objects (thumbnails, preservation metadata)
• Can be role-restricted
• Can run in the background

Workflows comprised of

• Behaviors
• States
• Triggers

Search Index

• Indexs anything in a Fedora object

• DC, MODS

Fez Security

• Security is based on Fez Access Control Markup Language (Fez-ACML)
• Saved as a datasstream againist each object in Fez RDBMS
• Uses security inheritence form parent community - can be set at any level (inherited base on OR method)
• Rules based around Fez roles and authentication sources

FezACML

• Fez is a special Fex-mapped XSD
• Roles tie in a object workflow
• Authentication/authorization sources can be LDAP/AD

Preservation Services

• PREMIS support for Actors and Events
• JHOVE technical preservation metadata
• AONS and AGE integration (PANIC)

• Uses PRONOM, DROID, LOC
• Prototype of Fedora AONS service

• Checksum checking the only major part missing from PREMIS audit support

Interoperablity of Content

• DSpace, ePrints, other Fedora deployments
• Switch to MODS

• DSpace 2.0 likely core schema
• Popular choice for many Fedora instances

Goals for the Future

• Make Fez easier to deploy and test

• Package Fex into Linux documentation
• More documentation on Fez wiki
• Install and migration “clinics”