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In September 2001, the University of Virginia received a grant of $1,000,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable the Library, in collaboration with the Digital Library Research Group at Cornell University, to build a digital object repository system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new Fedora open-source system offers the opportunity to deploy interoperable digital libraries using the latest Web technologies. The project's Web site is the primary source for publications by members of the Fedora development team, as well as for technical and training documentation. A summary of the Fedora project can be found in the paper by Sandy Payette and Thorny Staples to be presented at the European Digital Library Conference in September 2002 at: . The complete technical specifications for the Fedora software are available at: http://www.fedora.info/techdoc.shtml. Fedora's sub-systems are described using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), as are all auxiliary services included in the architecture. The system communicates over HTTP and supports the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Additionally, the project has adopted the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) as the means to encode and store digital objects as XML entities.
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