Ross Wayland Digital Library Research Group
Fedora Home Page
This is the home page for the FEDORA project. It provides a brief overview of the FEDORA architecture and provides links to other papers written by Carl Lagoze and Sandy Payette that relate to FEDORA and their research.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/fedora.html
Fedora DLIB overview
This is a recent paper published in D-LIB magazine that discusses the interoperability experiments between Cornell and CNRI using FEDORA but also provides an overview of the FEDORA architecture. It is less technical than some of the other research papers and easy reading.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/payette/05payette.html
"Virginia Dons FEDORA" (DLIB article from July/August 2000)
This article describes the FEDORA implementation at the University of Virginia.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/staples/07staples.html
Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture(FEDORA) paper
This is the primary research paper by Lagoze/Payette that describes in detail the FEDORA architecture.
http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/payette/papers/ECDL98/FEDORA.html
Infrastructure for Open-Architecture Digital Libraries(Dienst implementation manual) paper
A protocol and server that provides distributed document libraries over the World Wide Web. Dienst is based on a document model that incorporates unique document names, multiple document formats, and multiple document decompositions. Interoperability among Dienst servers provides the user with a single logical document collection, even though the actual collection is distributed across multiple servers. The Dienst protocol uses HTTP (the protocol of the World Wide Web) as a transport layer, making Dienst servers accessible from any WWW client. Dienst is currently used as the infrastructure for a distributed computer science technical report library by a number of U.S. universities. Although this paper is not about FEDORA, both Dienst and FEDORA were based on similar concepts and have similar goals.
http://ncstrl.cs.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/ncstrl.cornell/TR98-1690
Kahn/Wilensky paper
If you want to start at the beginning, the Kahn/Wilensky paper is the root of most later work involving Dienst and FEDORA. The paper is very technical and abstract and not an easy read.
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/cstr/arch/k-w.html