The August 2006 edition of “The DPubS Report” produced by Cornell University Libraries for the DPubS community announced work underway at the Penn State to bridge the worlds of DPubS and FEDORA. Here is the line from the newsletter:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE--------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]NEAR-TERM SCHEDULED WORK[...]* Penn State is working on Fedora interoperability. The plan is tohave that capability in the September release, with a working versionfor testing in late August.
The newsletter goes on to say that the work will be made available under an open source license, so I for one can’t wait to see what it looks like and how we might apply it to our own needs.
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Which is lovely, but DPubS is still vaporware, and so I’m not even going to believe their DSpace integration claims (which they’ve been making for ages) until I see some non-vapor code.
Fair enough — it always does have to come back to “show me the code” — no, “SHOW ME THE CODE!” — right? Still, it is possible to envision a FEDORA integration before a dSpace integration given the nature of those two systems. Or perhaps that is just my FEDORA-bias showing through.
In any case, we could know in a few months if the open source released version comes to pass…
Yes, DSpace is a sticky wicket. I’m hoping that the interoperability work (e.g. the ACLS report) will kick some of the problems to the front burner. Me, I *really want* something to do what DPubS is promising, which is why I’m so annoyed at the delay.
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