Sandy Payette, Executive Director of Fedora Commons, and CIS Dean Robert Constable address well-wishers about the impacts that Fedora Commons will have on information access and management into the future. Photographs by Rosemary Adessa.

Friends and colleagues gathered at Cornell Information Science on Aug. 13 at a reception to honor the creation of the Fedora Commons, made possible by an award of $4.9M of start-up funding from the Moore Foundation. The celebration acknowledged ten years of leadership of the Fedora Project by Sandy Payette, a researcher in Cornell Information Science. Sandy secured over $2.5M of funding for Fedora from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in order to transform Fedora from a Cornell research project to an open source software project with global impact. She will serve as Executive Director of Fedora Commons, leading an international team and working with cooperating projects worldwide.

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Fedora Commons Awarded 4.9M press release

Daniel Huttenlocher, Information Science Director, Anne R. Kenney, Interim Cornell University Librarian, Dean Krafft, National Science Digital Library Core Integration PI , and Peter Hirtle, Technology Strategist and CUL Intellectual Property Officer
Cornell University Library.

Fedora Commons is a non-profit organization that will provide sustainable technologies to help individuals and organizations create, manage, publish, share, and preserve digital content upon which we form our intellectual, scientific, and cultural heritage.

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Carl Lagoze, Senior Research Associate CIS, Rich Marisa, CIT, and Elly Cramer, National Science Digital Library Developer.

The Fedora Commons web site at http://www.fedora-commons.org is the new home of Fedora, the robust integrated repository-centered platform software that enables the storage, access and management of virtually any kind of digital content–including the more than 2.5 million objects in the NSDL data repository. The site offers information and services for communities of practice that include scholars, artists, educators, Web innovators, publishers, scientists, librarians, archivists, publishers, records managers, museum curators or anyone who presents, accesses, or preserves digital content, and software developers who work on the cutting edge of open source Web and enterprise content technologies. Features include a portfolio of examples of Fedora in use globally by diverse discipline communities from many cultures. Access to up-to-date documentation and information that includes the first in a series of three short media pieces entitled, Access and Management Stories From the Fedora Community, Part One: Digital Libraries and Collections are also available on the web site. Future features—a structured community wiki site and a Where in the World is Fedora interactive map utilizing community-developed Fedora repository features—are under construction. Contact Carol Minton Morris for more information at 607 255-2707 or clt6@cornell.edu.