Digital Repository Software: How Far Have We Come? How Far Do We Have to Go?
Bryan Brown’s tweet led me to Ruth Kitchin Tillman’s Repository Ouroboros post about the treadmill of software development/deployment. And wow do I have tho...
Unified Content Repository
Google and DataNet: Two Ships Passing in the Night, or Maybe Something More?
Wired Magazine's blog network says "Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data" while the National Science Foundation (NSF) is reviewing submission...
Digital Preservation Activities: NSF’s “DataNet” and the NSF/Mellon Blue Ribbon Task Force
The past few weeks have seen announcements of large digital preservation programs. I find it interesting that the National Science Foundation is involved in...
HTML Template of a TRAC:CC Report
Just in case this might be useful to others, I've created a report template based on the "Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria Checkl...
Two Personal Repository Services
This year has seen the release of two personal repository services: http://PublicationsList.org/ and the U.K. Depot. These two services have an admittedly ...
Survey on Digital Preservation Systems is Seeking Respondents
There are just a few days left to respond to the "International Digital Preservation Systems Survey" being run by Karim Boughida and Sally Hubbard from the G...
Open Source for Open Repositories — New Models for Software Development and Sustainability
This is a summary of a presentation by James L. Hilton, Vice President and CIO of University of Virginia, at the opening keynote session of Open Repositories...
What a NASA/Google Mashup Might Mean for Libraries
Ron Murray (no relation) from the Library of Congress sent me this announcement about a joint NASA/Google partnership, which starts: NASA Ames Research Cente...
Sakai gets JSR-170 support; possible integration point with FEDORA?
Earlier this year, I was on a quest to hook a FEDORA content repository into the Sakai collaboration and learning environment. What looked at first to be a ...
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to build a consortial repository using FEDORA
On Friday, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries announced the creation of a consortium-wide digital repository project similar to that of the Ohio Dig...
Why FEDORA? Answers to the FEDORA Users Interview Survey
The Fedora Outreach and Communications team is conducting a survey of the high-level sense of passion and commitment inherent in the Fedora community. I've ...
Integration announced for DPubS (e-journal publishing system) and FEDORA (digital object repository)
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 b...
Thinking about Our Fedora Disseminators
Another reason to consider the FEDORA digital object repository system, if having the ability to put all of your content in one place and reducing the comple...
Fedora plus Sakai: A view from 30,000 feet
Please note: the living, editable version of this document is now on Sakai's Confluence in the "Resources" project area. Edited by Peter Murray, OhioLINK. ...
“Archiving and Preserving the Web” from the Internet Archive perspective
In case you were wondering what some of the back-channel discussion on the #code4lib IRC channel was on Tuesday, Ed Summers and I were watching an EDUCAUSE w...
Fedora plus Sakai — not quite that easy
In previous post I described to how easy it would be for Fedora to be integrated into Sakai and offered as reference the Entity.java interface as evidence. ...
Fedora plus Sakai — a marriage made in heaven?
Note -- there was a follow-up to this post. What happens when you mix two Mellon-funded projects? Perhaps a nice bit of what they call synergy. The thinkin...
Why Fedora? Because You Don’t Need Fedora
I’m often asked “Why is OhioLINK using FEDORA?” (Just to eliminate any confusion at the start, I’m referring to the FEDORA Digital Object Repository, a proje...
Resources for Describing Visual Materials
A recent thread on describing visual materials from the IMAGELIB mailing list sparked the descovery of these resources. First was this bibliography of thesa...
AJAX-based Video Editing Tool
This is amazing stuff -- an AJAX-based video editing tool...in your web browser! I haven't looked at the underlying technology or it's licensing terms (the...
Berkeley’s “bSpace Images” project
Word of this Fedora-based image collection tool comes from the Sakai Library & Repositiories discussion group [Sakai Collab account required]. Project N...
Alternate (Open) Peer Review Model
At some point the DRC will need a generalized peer review system. Although I'm not sure we will use OAI-PMH to shepherd the results around various sys...
On the Need for a General Purpose Digital Object Repository
Digital objects -- we've all got 'em. Billions and billions of them. And we put them in individual content silos, stratified along such unhelpful lines as ...
Germany is at it, too
This just in -- at least to my INBOX -- Germany is working on a unified repository as well. Called the eSciDoc project, it closely mirrors what the DRC is g...