[Web4lib] Fwd: [Fedora-commons-users] FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M

Wed Aug 15 09:47:28 EDT 2007

>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:14:21 -0400
>To: fedora-commons-users at lists.sourceforge.net,
>         fedora-commons-developers at lists.sourceforge.net
>From: Carol Minton Morris <clt6 at cornell.edu>
>Subject: [Fedora-commons-users] FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>CONTACT:
>Fedora Commons: Sandy Payette
>(607) 255-9222, payette at cs.cornell.edu
><http://www.fedora-commons.org>http://www.fedora-commons.org
>Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Greg Nelson
>(415) 561-7427, greg.nelson at moore.org
>
>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
>
>Cornell Information Science
>301 College Ave.
>Ithaca, NY 14850
>607 255-2702
>clt6 at cornell.edu
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