Hi

Welcome to Fedora

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:47 +0200, John Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi,
> I wish to make a repository of video files.
> Can I ask some very basic questions, to get my head around what Fedora
> is about?
> 
> If Fedora uses a database to hols the data about a video file, then
> what is the point of the XML?
Fedora does not use a database to hold the data. Fedora uses digital
objects, which are serialized as xml files. 

> 
> Is Fedora able to upload my video file? (that's probably a stupid
> question) I think I would need to build something in order to upload a
> file, is that correct?
You can upload files to a instance of Fedora, you do not have to build
anything to do so. 

If you can be more specific in your questions, I will give you some more
specific answers ;)


Regards


> 
> Sorry if all this is too basic.
> 
> Regards,
> John.


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