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ActiveFedora Overview¶

Introduction¶

ActiveFedora is a Ruby gem for creating and managing objects in the Fedora Repository Architecture.

The purpose of ActiveFedora is to make it possible to build Fedora client applications rapidly and efficiently while taking advantage of the best contemporary application development practices.

Within that, our emphasis is on

• refining & popularizing a simple, intuitive and effective content modeling language
• develop tools for leveraging mature parts of Fedora's Content Model Architecture (CMA)
• leverage existing search/index techniques in a flexible and modular way
• encourage creaion & exchange of sane and well encapsulated solutions for metadata management
• facilitate community innovation & collaboration around user-oriented content-driven application development

Roadmap & Next Steps¶

The Roadmap tab on this site gives you a live roadmap. It tells you what bugs and features are definitely on our radar and when they will be getting attention in our work process.

At a slightly higher level, our emphases for Release 1.1 are:

• do more to take advantage of Fedora CMA
• re-work solr integration, informed by code from projects like Blacklight

Community Participation & Sharing Solutions¶

see Community page for information on community participation and sharing of solutions