August 29, 2007 - 12:00am
By Elizabeth Manapsal
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Fedora Commons, an open-source software application, hopes to revolutionize the way scholars, institutions, and libraries share information. With a recent grant of $4.9 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Sandy Payette, a founder and co-director of Fedora Commons and researcher for Cornell’s Computer Science Department, hopes to further build an online system that fosters open collaboration between software developers and web site designers that can be used as a template for storing and preserving different types of data.