Fedora Pros and Con

• Well-defined Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for accessing and managing the repository

• No limitations on metadata usage

• Tight integration with OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), in support of interoperability

• Supports objects that are simple, complex, static, and dynamic, i.e. Fedora makes no demands on the objects stored within

• Preserves behavior as well as data and metadata via custom “disseminators”

• Free, platform-independent, and actively developed / funded

• More of a back-end than a front-end; need to develop and/or integrate front-end software (counterpoint: community)