Bending the rules without breaking the repo: Using free RDF description in Fedora Commons repositories

This poster will present the design and use of an experimental extension module for Fedora Commons that ameliorates some of the limitations in Fedora's abilities to index, store, and manage RDF assertions that compose rich descriptive metadata. It permits the management of RDF assertions drawn from arbitrary XML metadata streams in an object, while keeping the XML metadata as the authoritative and only stored description. It allows for the creation and management of RDF triples the subjects of which are not Fedora resources. And it does these things with nothing more than simple XML configuration and XSLT stylesheets. The software is now publicly available and the poster will be accompanied by a live demonstration.