UPEI Robertson Library

Alexander O'Neill

CMS integration of repository content - adding front-end interfaces like the Adore-Djatoka and OpenLayers large image viewer with a Fedora back-end. Developing APIs to easily integrate Fedora functionality into the Drupal development model, such as using Fedora as a replacement back-end for Drupal's file attach uploads. Developing tools for users to manage repository content without having to know how the back-end systems work.

WGBH

Christopher Beer

I am a web developer at WGBH, currently working with the Media Libraries and Archives department on a prototype online media archive for academic research, which will use Fedora. I have developed a number of other digital repositories for both WKAR, a mid-Michigan PBS station, and MATRIX, the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Science Online at Michigan State University. My primary programming language is PHP.

 

I have Fedora installed and will be experimenting with it before the conference.

University of Alberta

Chris Riedlberger

Fedora Repository

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM

Caspar Treijtel

FEDORA Repository

http://www.uba.uva.nl/digital_production_centre/home.cfm

DuraSpace, Inc.

Chris Wilper

Fedora, Repositories, Semantic Web

http://fedora-commons.org/

UPEI

Dawn Hooper

UPEI

UPEI

Donald Moses

FEDORA, metadata, digitization, digital collections

http://www.islandlives.net/

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Doron Shalvi

Design and development of a digital repository for the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

UPEI Robertson Library

Grant Johnson

Systems Coordinator
Robertson Library
University of Prince Edward Island.

Co-administrator of the network/servers/drupal multi-site supporting the VRE and Fedora projects. Also have been responsible for manageing the ILS and integration with the breadth of library functions including ILL, resolvers and federated searching.

MediaShelf, LLC

Matt Zumwalt

Fedora Commons, Ruby on Rails, User Experience & Reducing Complexity

http://yourmediashelf.com

Library Systems, Carleton University

John MacGillivray

I work in the Library at Carleton University as a Information Systems Analyst.  We have a few test servers running Fedora.  I am very interested in Islandora.  I think, it would be a great fit for our ETDs and other collections that we plan to host.  We plan to authenticate using an LDAP server.

University of New Brunswick

Jason Nugent

FEDORA Repositories, Drupal development, and strange food from far away countries

http://etc.hil.unb.ca/

University of New Brunswick

Jennifer Whitney

Fedora repositories

University of PEI

Melissa Belvadi

Library technologies, particularly web-based, and particularly open-source. I've done a lot with Openurl and am especially interested in serials management, but also digital objects of all kinds. I know Perl and SQL, and some PHP. I am also a reference librarian. I am very interested in a modularized approach to library technology, rather than the "buy an all-in-one package from a commercial vendor" approach.  Finally, I am very interested in human-computer interaction, particularly in web-based information systems, from basic web sites to advanced library research database systems.

UPEI Robertson Library

Mark Leggott

All Things Open

http://vre.upei.ca/dev

Carleton University

Pat

ETDs, workflows,

datasets & data curation,

scholar communities/ research environments/workbenchs

video  repositories

dark archiving/LOCKSS

UPEI Robertson Library

Peter Lux

Contractor with UPEI Robertson Library working on VRE, Library, and Fedora applications.  

Programming: PHP, basic Ruby, bits of PERL, CAKE PHP Framework, XML

Fedora experience: Installs, exploration of FEZ as interface (last year), build crude administrative application with PHP for basic SOAP admin functions via API-M, assisted in Drupal integration working with Paul Pound as lead, supported various VRE projects using Fedora (Living Archives Project, Marine Natural Products Lab)

Fedora Interest: Further integration with Drupal as interface. I am also interested in the potential of integration with other front end management systems (e.g. Montala) and what developments may be happening with Ruby and Fedora.

The great flexibility that Fedora offers can be a challenge when first embarking on new types of collections. For example,I am presently working with two labs engaged in bioscience work (mass spec and gene sequence). As these will be stored and accessed in Fedora, one of the keys is a good structural strategy for any given collection. I'm interested in looking at models for this as well as other individual's approaches.My suspicion is that while Fedora will support a more traditional hierarchical approach, there are probably more dynamic and efficient organizational methodologies that will arise. 

Other burning areas of interest Fedora wise.... Security/Authentication/ management of same. 

 

 

UPEI

Pauline

stuff

UPEI Robertson Library

Paul Pound

Programming: Java, PHP, SQL, XML

 We have Fedora installed on two IBM blades running SLES.  We are using Kowari for the resource index, Postgres for the database and Fgsearch for Lucene integration.  One install is for test and one for production.

 We are developing a Drupal module to manage and view Fedora objects. 

 Security for the module is currently at the drupal layer.  Securing Fedora Objects and datastreams using XACML along with LDAP is the goal for future versions.

http://test.vre.upei.ca/paul

University of Notre Dame

Richard (Rick) Johnson

I am a Senior Programmer for the Systems Department of the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame.  My core skills are in Java technologies such as JMS, Struts, Spring, etc.  I also have much experience with webservices, XML, XPath, Perl, PHP, and C++.

 

We are in the planning stage of implementing Fedora as our primary digital repository for digital objects in the library.  We are also in general actively exploring moving to primarily Ruby on Rails for front-end with some Java middleware.  I am a RoR newbie and am very interested in ActiveFedora and learning about experiences working with Ruby and integrating with Java.  We have several Java-based vendor API's that we will need to integrate with so it is extremely important that RoR and Java would play nice together.  Of course, the bridge could always be webservice based, but that is not always the most scalable.  We currently have an extremely heterogeneous environment including CGI, PHP, RoR and we definitely want to simplify this going forward.