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Educational Software - Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Fedora Commons Gets $4.9M Grant From Gordon Moore For eScholarship Software

Fedora Commons announced that it has won a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to further fund its software to change "how scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, and educators collaborate to produce, share, and preserve their digital intellectual creations."

Fedora Project is an open-source software collaboration between Cornell University and the University of Virginia and is based in Ithaca, NY.

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