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Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Do they have a separate website for a git repo, e.g. Github? Between me reading the page in bed this morning and then driving to work, the website seems to have gone down.

Their Github is https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo

Thank you. Have a specific project at work that it might be relevant towards.

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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It's older than Fedora Linux.

if your little company was still named Google would you keep it? they just seem petty (the ™ on their logo lol)

Nothing petty about it: https://www.ridetenet.com/pages/a-letter-from-nolan

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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post #2

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

And they have Fedora Slack(ware)!

Wait - I saw a link to a Slack chat workspace. Do they have something for Slackware Linux as well?

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Both. '...all parties settled on a co-existence agreement that stated that the Cornell-UVA project could use the name when clearly associated with open source software for digital object repository systems and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer operating systems.' https://fedorarepository.org/about/our-history/

> The transferable agreement stipulated that each project must display the following text on their web site: [...] Looks like Cornell-UVA satisfied this by placing it on their about page. Red Hat on the other hand hid it on a dedicated legalese page nobody will read: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/ Not a good look IMO.

Due to their comparative popularity, it makes complete sense to me. You don't have people in HN comments for a new Fedora release going "Wait is this about the Digital Access Project?"

What does "not a good look" even mean in this context? Getting tired of this phrase's overuse tbh. "Think of the optics" fell into disuse and I can't wait for this one to join it.

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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And they have Fedora Slack(ware)!

Wait - I saw a link to a Slack chat workspace. Do they have something for Slackware Linux as well?

No, sorry it was that I meant. Also confusing when you are primed to think RedHat -> Fedora -> Slackware :)

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.

Don't be mad, they are clearly distinct — one is FEDORA and the other is Fedora!

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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post #25

Do they have a separate website for a git repo, e.g. Github? Between me reading the page in bed this morning and then driving to work, the website seems to have gone down.

Their Github is https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo

Were they so unoriginal that they had to steal the "fc" abbreviation from the Linux distro as well? (In the Linux distro, it comes from the original name "Fedora Core"; the abbreviation is most visible in package versions.)
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