is jointly developed by the University of Virginia and Cornell University, with its first version released in 2003. The objective of Fedora 1.0 was to create a production quality system using XML and web services to deliver digital content. Fedora supports digital asset management, institutional repositories, digital archives, content management systems, scholarly publishing enterprises and digital libraries. The system is designed to be a foundation upon which full-featured institutional repositories and other interoperable web-based digital libraries can be built. It currently has a distributed installed base of more than 360, with collection sizes of 10 million objects.