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+# News
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+## Version 1.0 of the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) Released
+
+The OCFL Editors are pleased to announce version 1.0 of the Oxford Common File Layout, reflecting over 24 months of 
+work by the OCFL Editors and the digital preservation and technology communities.
+
+The initiative originated in September 2017 from informal discussions at a Fedora/Samvera camp in Oxford, UK. These 
+discussions identified the need for a simple, non-proprietary, specified, open-standards approach to the layout of 
+files for the purpose of preservation persistence. Subsequently, a kickoff community meeting attracted 47 attendees 
+from 32 institutions, confirming the need and resulting in the establishment of the OCFL Editors team.
+
+### What is OCFL?
+
+The OCFL describes an application-independent approach to the storage of digital information in a structured, 
+transparent, and predictable manner. It is designed to promote long-term object management best practices within 
+digital repositories. In addition, the OCFL's standardized approach facilitates the migration or transfer of content 
+between applications that utilize the specification.
+
+The key design goals and benefits of using the OCFL are:
+
+ - Completeness - A repository can be rebuilt purely from the files it stores.
+ - Parsability - By humans and machines, to ensure content can be understood in the absence of the original software.
+ - Robustness - Against errors, corruption (accidental or deliberate), and migration between storage technologies.
+ - Versioning - Repositories can make changes to objects but their history persists - to allow referential integrity 
+and recoverability.
+ - Storage diversity - Content can be stored on diverse storage infrastructures including cloud object stores.
+ - Efficiency - Many design decisions are made with a view to computational, bandwidth and storage efficiency in the 
+light of real world experience.
+
+### What information is available?
+
+The OCFL website at https://ocfl.io, includes the most up to date version of the specification and the implementation 
+notes as well as the latest editors draft. 
+
+The [OCFL Specification](https://ocfl.io/1.0/spec/) defines both OCFL Objects, a simple structure for content and a JSON document (inventory.json) 
+which provides a straightforward but comprehensive register for the object and versions of its content, and an OCFL 
+Storage Root, an arrangement for how OCFL Objects are laid out on physical storage. It also contains examples 
+illustrating the use of the OCFL, and explanations that ground decisions in prior experience. 
+
+The companion [OCFL Implementation Notes](https://ocfl.io/1.0/implementation-notes/) contains advice for implementing 
+the specification including recommendations for digital preservation, storage handling, client behaviors, and best 
+practices for dealing with OCFL Objects in motion.
+
+The OCFL Editors are also releasing [validation rules](https://ocfl.io/validation/validation-codes.html) and [fixture 
+objects](https://github.com/OCFL/fixtures) for testing OCFL implementations against the specification. We welcome your 
+feedback, questions, use cases, and especially details of any implementations or experimentation with OCFL. 
+
+### How can we get involved?
+
+The OCFL is managed through Github at https://github.com/OCFL and it is open for anyone to raise issues or add use 
+cases. The OCFL Editors meet twice monthly with Community Meetings once a month detailing progress and giving the 
+opportunity to discuss issues verbally. Details can be found on the OCFL wiki, https://github.com/OCFL/spec/wiki, 
+which also contains links to the Slack channel and mailing lists.
+
+### The OCFL Editors
+
+Andrew Hankinson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
+Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
+Rosalyn Metz (Emory University)
+Julian Morley (Stanford University)
+Simeon Warner (Cornell University)
+Andrew Woods (LYRASIS)