title: Fedora and the Oxford Common File Layout 
creators: David Wilcox
abstract: Fedora is an open source repository platform for managing and preserving digital objects. While Fedora has always been associated with digital preservation, recent releases have focused on exposing linked data and aligning with modern web standards. The Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL), which defines a shared approach to file hierarchy for long-term preservation, provides an opportunity to bring the focus back to digital preservation in Fedora. The OCFL supports application-independent, transparent file persistence that can be used to rebuild a repository in case of disaster. These features address the current needs of the Fedora community, so a group of Fedora committers met in person to design a version of Fedora that implements the OCFL. This will be the focus of the next major release, Fedora 6. 0. This paper introduces the OCFL and describes the proposed design for Fedora 6. 0, including the next steps for development and implementation.