Don't keep it under your hat: A Fez design description and case study

Christiaan Kortekaas (2006). Don't keep it under your hat: A Fez design description and case study. In: Fedora Users Conference 2006, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia, (1-21). June 19-20, 2006.

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Author Christiaan Kortekaas
Title of paper Don't keep it under your hat: A Fez design description and case study
Conference Paper Type Fully Published Paper
Conference name Fedora Users Conference 2006
Conference location University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia
Conference dates June 19-20, 2006
Publication date 2006
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Abstract/Summary Fez is the University of Queensland’s (UQ) new digital repository management and workflow system. Robust and scalable, the open source system is Fedora-based and provides easy access to electronic content like theses, book chapters, articles and research output. Fez is based on PHP and MySQL and provides a user-friendly front-end to Fedora 2.1.1+. Highly flexible and configurable, Fez is an advanced administration and content management tool for digital repositories. This case study will show how Fez can be easily customised to manage a large, multi-user content entry project with complex security requirements. This capability is highlighted in UQ’s current Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which will see international expert panels assessing multiple research articles from the University’s academic staff. Academic staff from different schools and centres must nominate their top three research works from the last five years to be deposited into Fez for review. Specific content models were developed to meet the reporting requirements of the RAE, including a 'citation view' facility, with links to either the object's digital object identifier or to a locally housed version of the file to grant reviewers full access to materials. To simplify metadata creation, Fez was integrated with data feeds from UQ central human resource systems to provide rich form controls based on cutting-edge AJAX technology. For example, an 'author suggest' control was developed to assist users by predicting an author’s name as it is typed, based on an institutional academic staff list. Fez is also being prepared for federated authentication and authorization based on the international standard eduPerson attributes, implemented with Shibboleth technology. This will assist future RAE processes by allowing external reviewers to authenticate using their own institutions central identity provider and Fez will be able to apply access control rules for these external reviewers based on their individual eduPerson attributes.
Subjects 280100 Information Systems
Keyword Fez
Fedora
APSR
Q-Index Code EX

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