DLF Forum 2016

Presentation 1
Fedora 4 Project Update
Fedora is a flexible, extensible repository platform for the management and dissemination of digital content. Fedora 4 has been adopted by many new and existing Fedora users. This project update will review new developments, including the API specification effort, community-led feature development, and the new training program.
Presenter: David Wilcox

Presentation 2
Digital Darwin: Preserving our assets … and their descendants
Presentation of recent and future projects which highlight a circular, reflexive, and spiraling digital asset lifecycle in which existing objects inspire derivative artifacts, which are then linked in parity to the original asset that inspired it – proposing a "feedback loop" stewardship style which records the asset's evolution and influence.
Presenter: James Bradley

Presentation 3
Down the Rabbit Hole: Data Normalization, Migrations and Access within a Digital Preservation Framework
This presentation addresses data wrangling efforts, the creation of workflows, and the challenges encountered while preparing resources for migration. A review of the de-duplication efforts, development of a collection assessment tool and its implementation, and techniques to transform, normalizes, and link metadata to the accompanying digital resources will be discussed.
Presenters: Daniel Noonan, Darnelle Melvin