DRAMA (Digital Repository Authorization Middleware Architecture) has released Muradora 1.0, a Fedora front-end that provides identity control (via Shibboleth), authorization (via XACML), and other functions. DRAMA is a sub-project of RAMP (Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities Project). A Live DVD image simplifies installation.
Here’s an excerpt from the fedora-commons-users posting:
- "Out-of-the-box" or customized deployment options
- Intuitive access control editor allows end-users to specify their own access control criteria without editing any XML.
- Hierarchical enforcement of access control policies. Access control can be set at the collection level, object level or datastream level.
- Metadata input and validation for any well-formed metadata schema using XForms (a W3C standard). New metadata schemas can be supported via XForms scripts (no Muradora code modification required).
- Flexible and extensible architecture based on the well known Java Spring enterprise framework.
- Multiple deployments of Muradora (each customized for their own specific purpose) can talk to the one instance of Fedora.
- Freely available as open source software (Apache 2 license). All dependent software is also open source.
