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Iain 

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> Subject: [Fedora-commons-users] FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M
>  
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> CONTACT:
> Fedora Commons: Sandy Payette
> (607) 255-9222, [log in to unmask]
> <http://www.fedora-commons.org>http://www.fedora-commons.org
> Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Greg Nelson
> (415) 561-7427, [log in to unmask]
> 
> FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M GRANT TO DEVELOP OPEN-SOURCE 
> SOFTWARE FOR BUILDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNITIES
> 
> (Ithaca, New York, August 10, 2007) - Fedora Commons today 
> announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the 
> Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the 
> organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect 
> revolutionary change in how scientists, scholars, museums, 
> libraries, and educators collaborate to produce, share, and 
> preserve their digital intellectual creations.  Fedora 
> Commons is a new non-profit organization that will continue 
> the mission of the Fedora Project, the successful open-source 
> software collaboration between Cornell University and the 
> University of Virginia.  The Fedora Project evolved from the 
> Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture 
> (Fedora) developed by researchers at Cornell Computing and 
> Information Science. 
> 
> With this funding, Fedora Commons will foster an open 
> community to support the development and deployment of open 
> source software, which facilitates open collaboration and 
> open access to scholarly, scientific, cultural, and 
> educational materials in digital form.  The software platform 
> developed by Fedora Commons with Gordon and Betty Moore 
> Foundation funding will support a networked model of 
> intellectual activity, whereby scientists, scholars, 
> teachers, and students will use the Internet to 
> collaboratively create new ideas, and build on, annotate, and 
> refine the ideas of their colleagues worldwide.  With its 
> roots in the Fedora open-source repository system, developed 
> since 2001 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 
> the new software will continue to focus on the integrity and 
> longevity of the intellectual products that underlie this new 
> form of knowledge work.  The result will be an open source 
> software platform that both enables collaborative models of 
> information creation and sharing, and provides sustainable 
> repositories to secure the digital materials that constitute 
> our intellectual, scientific, and cultural history. 
> 
> Recognizing the importance of multiple participants in the 
> development of new technologies to support this vision, the 
> Moore Foundation funding will also support the growth and 
> diversification of the Fedora Community, a global set of 
> partners who will cooperate in software development, 
> application deployment, and community outreach for Fedora 
> Commons.  This network of partners will be instrumental for 
> making Fedora Commons a self-sustainable non-profit 
> organization that will support and incubate open-source 
> software projects that focus on new mechanisms for 
> information formation, access, collaboration, and preservation.
> 
> According to Sandy Payette, Executive Director of Fedora 
> Commons, "the new Fedora Commons can foster technologies and 
> partnerships that make it possible for academic and 
> scientific communities to publish, share, and archive the 
> results of their own work in a free, open fashion, and make 
> it possible to analyze and use content in novel ways."
> 
> "Establishing a sustainable open-source software system that 
> provides the basic infrastructure for on-line communities of 
> scholars will have enduring impact.  The unanticipated 
> cross-disciplinary uses of this open platform are the 
> hallmark of this revolutionary infrastructure," said Jim 
> Omura, technology strategist with the Gordon and Betty Moore 
> Foundation.
> 
> Payette also noted, "The open-source software that is 
> developed and distributed by Fedora Commons can impact the 
> entire lifecycle of what is often referred to as "e-Research" 
> and "e-Science," including storage of experimental data, 
> analysis of experimental results, peer review, publication of 
> findings, and the reuse of published material for the next 
> generation of scholarly works.  We will also continue our 
> work with libraries and museums to facilitate the sharing of 
> digitized collections, making previously locked away material 
> available to wide audiences.  Also, building on our attention 
> to digital preservation in the Fedora open-source repository 
> system, Fedora Commons will continue to stress the importance 
> of the sustainability of digital information in applications 
> of our work."
> 
> About Fedora Commons
> <http://www.fedora-commons.org>Fedora Commons is a non-profit 
> organization whose purpose is to provide sustainable 
> open-source technologies to help individuals and 
> organizations create, manage, publish, share, and preserve 
> digital content upon which we form our intellectual, 
> scientific, and cultural heritage.  Since 2001, with support 
> from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cornell University and 
> the University of Virginia have collaborated on the Fedora 
> Project which has developed, distributed, and supported 
> innovative open-source repository software that combines 
> content management, web services, and semantic technologies.  
> The Fedora software has been adopted worldwide to support an 
> array of applications including open-access publishing, 
> scholarly communication, digital libraries, e-science, 
> archives, and education.
> 
> Fedora Commons will initially be located in the Information 
> Science Building at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.  
> The Executive Director of Fedora Commons is Sandy Payette, 
> who co-invented the Fedora architecture and led the Cornell 
> arm of the open-source Fedora Project.  The Board of 
> Directors of Fedora Commons provides leadership from multiple 
> communities, including open-access publishing, digital 
> libraries, sciences, and humanities.  For more information, 
> visit http://www.fedora-commons.org.
> 
> About the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation The Gordon and 
> Betty Moore Foundation, established in 2000, seeks to advance 
> environmental conservation and cutting-edge scientific 
> research around the world and improve the quality of life in 
> the San Francisco Bay Area.  The Foundation's Science Program 
> seeks to make a significant impact on the development of 
> provocative, transformative scientific research, and increase 
> knowledge in emerging fields. For more information, visit 
> http://www.moore.org.
> 
> --
> Carol Minton Morris
> Communications Director
> National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
> http://NSDL.org
> 
> Communications and Media Director
> Fedora Commons
> http://www.fedora-commons.org
> 
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