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Fez is a PHP / MySQL front end to the Fedora repository software. It is developed by the University of Queensland Library as an open source project hosted on SourceForge. There are mailing lists, forums and download links on the SourceForge site.
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Fez 2.1 Release Candidate 3 Released
The Fez Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Fez 2.1 (RC3). This release supports Fedora 2.2.x - including Fedora 2.2.4. Roughly 12 months of new functionality has gone into this release. Here are some of the highlights:
- Complete graphical user interface overhaul
- Apache Solr support for faster browsing & searching - easily handles 100,000+ objects (Thanks Kai@ETH)
- Search faceting and full-text document search
- New controlled vocabularies, including SEO 2008, and Fields of Research (FOR)
- EXIF tool integration
- Origami image viewer for easy image inspection (Thanks Keith@CARL)
- Session database support
- Lots of new workflows
- Refined content models
- Custom views support
- Performance tweaks and bug fixes
- Major clean-up of templates, CSS, and AJAX components
- New display modes, including image gallery
- Ad-hoc SQL engine for running workflows on arbitrary groups of records
- ORCA feed support
- Versioning GUI (Thanks Lynette@NSDL)
- Handles feed support (Thanks Peter@CDU)
The latest release can be downloaded from the Fez SourceForge page at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/
Please take it for a spin, and let us know how you get on!
Current Fez Team Development
This week the Fez team is working on:
- Christiaan: Using full path xpath queries instead of XML_Walk recursion to extract data from Fedora XML (nearly done). OAKLaw/OAKList & Sherpa/Romeo integration (on hold). Track our progress in our code commit log here: Fez WebSVN commit log
- Andrew: Converting Fez to use Zend DB (defaulting to PDO, others like MySQLi optional) instead of PEAR DB (done) Working on Thomson service integration
- Marko: Google maps integration for stats (done, committed), faceted search on location. Integrating SWF Uploader (flash based) to provide uploads for large files and show a progress bar.
The Fez developer community is working on:
- Kai Jauslin @ ETH: Integrating Apache Solr with Fez (including FezACML auth restriction during query) as an indexing/searching engine plugin option (contributed). Redoing Fez layout.
- Luis Zorita @ UNED: Integrating Moodle-style translation engine into Fez.
- Lynette Rayle @ NSDL: Integrating OnFire workflow and distribution system with Fez.
- Jonathon Harker @ Catalyst: Adding Postgresql support for Fez including TSearch2 for fulltext indexing.
- Staff @ Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries: Investigating search key mapping issues and OAI exposure. Implemented alternate (multiple) namespaces in the one Fez and Fedora instance. Integrated Oragami Image viewer (contributed).
- Matt Painter @ Archives New Zealand: Implementing recursive directory trawling into the batch ingest workflow (contributed).
- Peter Newman @ Charles Darwin Uni: Experimenting with the experimental options currently in Fez trunk.
Also see the Developments part of our Wiki.
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