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Subject: Re: Fwd: NEWS RELEASE: Fedora Commons/Sun StorageTek (TM) 5800 System
This information forwarded by Carl related to Fedora project from Cornel. Nikola were these the folks you contacted a few years ago to see if they would build on top of regrep? What was the outcome of that discussion? carl mattocks wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Carol Minton Morris* <clt6@cornell.edu <mailto:clt6@cornell.edu>> > Date: Nov 13, 2007 9:53 AM > Subject: NEWS RELEASE: Fedora Commons/Sun StorageTek (TM) 5800 System > To: semantic-web@w3.org <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org> > > > *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* > > *CONTACT:* > Fedora Commons: Sandy Payette > (607) 255-9222, payette@cs.cornell.edu <mailto:payette@cs.cornell.edu> > Carol Minton Morris, > (607) 255-2702, clt6@cornell.edu <mailto:clt6@cornell.edu> > http://www.fedora-commons.org <http://www.fedora-commons.org/> > * > * > *Fedora Commons Integrates Its Software Platform with the Sun > StorageTek(TM) 5800 System* > Ithaca, New York, November 13, 2007 - Fedora Commons , a non-profit > organization which provides sustainable technologies to create, > manage, publish, share and preserve digital information assets, > announced today plans to integrate the Fedora Commons software > platform with the Sun StorageTek(TM) 5800 System. This collaboration > provides a substantial opportunity to advance open systems for durable > access to the digital information assets, which increasingly forms the > basis for our intellectual, organizational, scientific and cultural > heritage. > > The Fedora Commons free, open-source software platform uses a > service-oriented architecture that enables the creation of > collaborative, integrated information spaces where any information > entity can be linked to any other entity. The StorageTek 5800 system > has advanced data integrity, resilience and failure tolerance over > other storage system designs, and includes customer-defined arbitrary > metadata indexing and search. Customers can seamlessly scale, saving > millions of dollars in administrative costs over traditional storage, > and be assured of an advanced level of data availability. > > During the creation or authoring of intellectual works, changes occur > rapidly, but over their lifecycle these works become fixed information > assets. New scholarship is built upon earlier works and new science > is built upon other research. Without durable access to previous > works, research progress cannot be sustained. Unless key digital > assets such as datasets and analyses are reliably kept and their > authenticity is guaranteed, the scientific method may be compromised > and the results may be questioned. The StorageTek 5800 provides a > powerful capability to handle fixed unstructured information assets. > > The Fedora Commons software platform and StorageTek 5800 architecture > form a natural synergy for the creation, management, use and care of > fixed information. Both systems recognize that, over time, all > technologies and formats change. Dan Davis, Fedora Commons Chief > Software Architect, notes, "We must develop an open-ended, > evolutionary, interoperable architecture, built upon open standards, > to ensure that our digital heritage remains accessible and useful, now > and in the future." > > It is hard to imagine all the ways in which our digital information > assets will be used and how knowledge will be synthesized in the > future. Users and software applications must be free to use, fuse > (mash-up), and repurpose information in new and innovative ways. Dan > Davis observed, "The StorageTek 5800 extensive and flexible support > for metadata closely integrated with the content is a natural enabler > for the Fedora Commons semantic linking and dissemination > capabilities. Using our offerings together will provide a > straightforward, easy way to support the entire information lifecycle > from creation to preservation, and to facilitate rapidly building > innovative applications or mash-ups while ensuring your information is > secure." > > To learn more about Fedora and Sun solutions for digital content, > visit _http://www.fedora-commons.org_ <http://www.fedora-commons.org/> > and _http://sun.com/storagetek/_. For more information contact Carol > Minton Morris at (607)255-2702. > > Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo and StorageTek are trademarks or > registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States > and other countries. > > > -- > > Carol Minton Morris > Communications Director > National Science Digital Library (NSDL) > http://NSDL.org <http://nsdl.org/> > > Communications and Media Director > Fedora Commons > http://www.fedora-commons.org <http://www.fedora-commons.org/> > > Cornell Information Science > 301 College Ave. > Ithaca, NY 14850 > 607 255-2702 > clt6@cornell.edu <mailto:clt6@cornell.edu> > > > -- > Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC > co-Chair OASIS (ISO/TS 15000) ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content SC > Ontolog ONION Cop Leader > CEO CHECKMi > vmail (usa) 908 322 8715 > CarlMattocks@checkmi.com <mailto:CarlMattocks@checkmi.com> > www.CHECKMi.com <http://www.CHECKMi.com> > Semantically Savvy Agents -- Regards, Farrukh Najmi Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com
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