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Fedora is not a complete institutional repository software application out-of-the-box, it is repository storage layer software, and accordingly needs workflow management and user interface front-ends to perform as an institutional repository, or indeed to perform any specific digital library function.
Fedora is used for a few active repositories worldwide (see Software). ARROW chose Fedora as a base for a custom-developed package. ARROW has combined Fedora and VTLS? Inc’s VITAL software (commercial). UQ have also developed their own front-end to Fedora (see Fez+Fedora).
VTLS has also announced (September 2005) VALET for ETDs, an entirely open source package for web submission and management of electronic theses and dissertations in a Fedora repository. VALET is compatible with the Australian Digital Theses Program metadata harvesting requirements, and can be downloaded from the VALET for ETDs web site.
The Fedora website is at http://www.fedora.info/. VTLS Inc’s Vital software is described at http://www.vtls.com/Products/vital.shtml.