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The Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) is set of very general architectural abstractions about digital information. Fedora can be used to express a variety of management schemes that support flexible use of digital content that is well positioned to be durable over a very long time. Fedora is in use by a variety of academic, business and government institutions around the world as a foundation for such things as institutional repositories, data curation schemes, digital libraries and open access publishing.

Duraspace is a private non-profit corporation that has set up to sustain a variety of open-source software products, including Fedora and DSpace and a new cloud-based product, DuraCloud. This talk will introduce Fedora concepts, provide a high level overview of the software and talk about ways it is being used for different information management solutions. It will also discuss DuraSpace and its community-building activities, as well as give an introduction to DuraCloud.
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