Fedora Commons Repository alternatives and similar software solutions
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Calibre Web
:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database -
Polar Bookshelf
DISCONTINUED. Polar is a personal knowledge repository for PDF and web content supporting incremental reading and document annotation. -
DSpace
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository -
BicBucStriim
DISCONTINUED. BicBucStriim streams books, digital books. It fills a gap in the functionality of current NAS devices that provide access to music, videos and photos -- but not books. BicBucStriim fills this gap and provides web-based access to your e-book collection. -
Samvera Hyrax
Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails Engine built by the Samvera community. Hyrax provides a foundation for creating many different digital repository applications.
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README
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Fedora is a robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It is especially suited for digital libraries and archives, both for access and preservation. It is also used to provide specialized access to very large and complex digital collections of historic and cultural materials as well as scientific data. Fedora has a worldwide installed user base that includes academic and cultural heritage organizations, universities, research institutions, university libraries, national libraries, and government agencies. The Fedora community is supported by the stewardship of the Lyrasis organization.
Technical goals:
- Enhanced preservation sensibilities including preservation storage layer transparency
- Improved scalability and performance
- More flexible storage options
- Improved durability
- Improved reporting and metrics
Downloads
The current web-deployable version of Fedora can be downloaded from the Lyrasis website or from Github. These artifacts can be deployed directly in a Jetty or Tomcat container as described in the guide to deploying Fedora.
Contributing
Contributions to the Fedora project are always welcome. These may take the form of testing the application, clarifying documentation or writing code.
Code contributions will take the form of pull requests to this repository. They also require a signed contributor license agreement on file before a pull request can be merged. New developers may wish to review this guide as it explains both the process and standards for test coverage, style and documentation.
Getting help
There are two community mailing lists where you can post questions or raise topics for discussion. Everyone is welcome to subscribe and participate.
Many of the developers are available on Slack in the #tech
and bleeding-edge
channels, hosted by fedora-project
.slack.com.
In addition, there are weekly Zoom technical calls which anyone may join.
Building and running Fedora from source
System Requirements
- Java 11
- Maven 3.6.3
$ git clone https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo.git
$ cd fcrepo
$ mvn install
The compiled Fedora war file can be found in ./fcrepo-webapp/target
. This can be deployed directly to a servlet container as
described in the deployment guide.
If deployed locally using a war file called fcrepo.war
, the web application will typically be available at
http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest.
There are two convenient methods for testing the Fedora application by launching it directly from the command line.
One option is to use the "one click" application, which comes with an embedded Jetty servlet. This can be optionally built by running:
mvn install -pl fcrepo-webapp -P one-click
and can be started by either double-clicking on the jar file or by running the following command:
java -jar ./fcrepo-webapp/target/fcrepo-webapp-<version>-jetty-console.jar
By default, a Fedora home directory, fcrepo
, is created in the current directory. You can change the default location by passing in an argument when starting the one-click, e.g.:
java -Dfcrepo.home=/data/fedora-home -jar fcrepo-webapp-<version>-jetty-console.jar
An alternative is use the maven command: mvn jetty:run
$ cd fcrepo-webapp
$ mvn jetty:run
For both of these methods, your Fedora repository will be available at: http://localhost:8080/rest/
Note: You may need to set the $JAVA_HOME property, since Maven uses it to find the Java runtime to use, overriding your PATH.
mvn --version
will show which version of Java is being used by Maven, e.g.:
Java version: 11.0.2, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-11.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
To set your $JAVA_HOME environment variable:
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Fedora Commons Repository README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.