(Apologies for the cross-posting)
Dear DSpace and Fedora Communities -
A few months ago, the DuraSpace organization made the recommendation
that the DSpace and Fedora user communities work together to integrate
the DSpace and Fedora technologies, allowing the DSpace software to run
"on top of" the Fedora platform. Essentially, this would mean that the
DSpace application would have an option to install it with "Fedora
Inside". DSpace with "Fedora Inside" would be a version of the DSpace
application which would store its contents (files and/or metadata) in
Fedora. The goal of this effort would be for DSpace to retain the
out-of-the-box experience, while also enabling the features that Fedora
provides (e.g. versioning, relationships between objects, flexible
architecture). You can read more about this recommendation in the FAQ
that accompanied the proposal: DSpace-Fedora Integration FAQ
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace-Fedora+Integration+FAQ>
As DuraSpace moves forward with our roadmap plans for 2011, we are
looking for participants to collaborate on determining requirements,
developing code and/or testing prototypes for a variety of use cases
starting in the following areas:
1. Propose a Fedora data model for DSpace data
1. Related Project(s): There is prior art (which would need to
be updated) for this from Google Summer of Code 2008
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Google+Summer+of+Code+2008+Fedora+Integration>
and Google Summer of Code 2009
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Google+Summer+of+Code+2009+Fedora+Integration>.
There was also a GSoC 2010 project to backport DSpace 2.x
Storage Services to 1.x
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/GSOC10+-+Backport+of+DSpace+2+Storage+Services+API+for+DSpace+1.x>.
The GSoC 2010 project may enable the ability to use prior
Fedora integrations in the DSpace 1.x platform.
2. A conversion, crosswalking, or import utility to get DSpace data
into the selected Fedora data model.
1. Related Project(s): DuraSpace has developed a general, AIP
backup & restore
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/AIP+Backup+and+Restore>
capability for DSpace 1.7. This feature provides a way to
extract the items from DSpace's current internal store,
along with all of their relationships (communities,
collections, and people).
2. Need determine if the current 1.7 AIP Backup & restore
feature would need reworking in order to more easily
crosswalk/map the data into the eventual Fedora data model.
3. Designing an integration of the DSpace business logic, user
authentication and authorization with Fedora.
4. Porting the DSpace user, administrative, and web services
interface applications to run against the resulting environment.
We look forward to the community collaboration on the DSpace/Fedora
integration effort in these and other areas. Please contact Brad McLean
([email protected]) or Valorie Hollister ([email protected])
if you and/or your institution are interested in being a part of the
work groups on any or all of the above areas, or if you have related work.
Thank-you!
Bradley McLean, CTO, DuraSpace
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