1. Panel Discussion
DSpace With Fedora Inside
Mark Diggory, Mark Leggot, Bradley McLean,
Richard Rodgers, Ryan Scherle, Matthew Zumwalt
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2. PANEL FORMAT
•Introduction to our objectives
• Goals
• Introduction to our panelists
• Past Initiatives
• Community Poll
•Open Forum and Questions for Panelists
• Community Benefits
• Technological Benefits
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3. INTRODUCTION
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace-Fedora+Integration+FAQ
At Open Repositories 2010 : Call to the DSpace and Fedora
Communities to explore the option of placing DSpace as a tool
on top of Fedora
•Goals:
• All Content and Metadata Stored in Fedora
• DSpace Providing User Interface for Workflow, Discovery and
Administration.
• Retain the out-of-the-box experience that is DSpace.
• Expose the extra features that Fedora provides
(versioning, object relations, flexible architecture).
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4. PANELISTS
Mark Leggott : Islandora, DiscoveryGarden and UPEI
Bradley McLean : CTO for DuraSpace
Richard Rodgers : Head of Software at MIT Libraries
Ryan Scherle : Technical Lead, Dryad Digital Repository
Matt Zumwalt : MediaShelf, Technical Lead, Hydra
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5. ABOUT @MIRE’S GOALS
DSPACE W/ FEDORA INSIDE
•Fedora as Architectural Guide for DSpace
• Bring a Formal Target to the DSpace Design Roadmap
• Guidance on one persistence target
• Separate Concerns
• Persistence, Business, User Interaction
•Optimization of Community Resources
• Shared Knowledge
• Common Developer Base Across Technology Stack
• Delegate Concerns
• Shift Persistence to Fedora
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6. PAST INITIATIVES
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ACTIVITY
•2007 : Scott Yeadon
• Demonstrated object portability between
Fez/Fedora and DSpace
•2008 and 2009 : Fedora Integration
• Student: Andrius Blažinskas
• Mentors: Richard Rodgers, Mark Diggory,
James Rutherford, Scott Phillips, Richard Jones
•2010 : DSpace 2.0 Storage Services
• Student: Andrius Blažinskas
• Mentor: Mark Diggory
•2010 : DSpace 2.0 Semantic Storage
• Student: Yigang Zhou
• Mentor: Mark Diggory
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7. Community Poll
Panel On DSpace With Fedora Inside
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8. POLL QUESTION
Should DSpace be modified to support Fedora
as an "Out of the Box" Storage Solution?
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9. POLL QUESTION
Should DSpace be modified to support Fedora
as an "Out of the Box" Storage Solution?
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10. POLL QUESTION
How much does your organization
customize your DSpace?
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11. POLL QUESTION
If you already use Fedora, would you use
DSpace as a front end if it worked on Fedora?
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12. POLL QUESTION
If you already use Fedora, would you use
DSpace as a front end if it worked on Fedora?
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13. POLL QUESTION
If you already use Fedora, would you use
DSpace as a front end if it worked on Fedora?
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14. POLL QUESTION
Would you use Fedora if it were an
option in DSpace?
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15. POLL QUESTION
Would you use Fedora if it were an
option in DSpace?
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16. POLL QUESTION
Will your organization contribute development
resources to assure DSpace can use Fedora?
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17. Panelists Dialog and
Open Forum
Panel On DSpace With Fedora Inside
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18. WHAT ARE THE BIG COMMUNITY QUESTIONS?
How Tractable a target is this? How Long will it
Take to Accomplish? And who will be
accomplishing this work?
Should we be concerned about Institutions with
heavy customization of DSpace have to adapt to
the inclusion of Fedora?
How can we assure that complexity is not an issue
with the project
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19. WHAT ARE THE BIG TECHNICAL QUESTIONS?
Integration VS. Interoperability
• Or At What level do we align DSpace and Fedora?
• Do we really need a intermediary format (AIP)
Fedora as Storage VS Smart Middleware
• Opaque Store or Enterprise Repository Platform?
• Common Services Across Multiple User Front-ends?
Conduits For Metadata and Content
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20. Community Benefits
DSpace With Fedora Inside
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21. HOW WILL DSPACE ON FEDORA BENEFIT
COMMUNITY?
Common Stakeholders and Developer Community
• Reduced Duplication of Effort
• Greater Synergy Between Technologies and Community
• Shared Vision of Preservation
• Greater Choices for Organizations
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22. HOW WILL “DSPACE ON FEDORA” BENEFIT
THE DEVELOPER COMMUNITY?
Shared Technology Stack
•Common Use of Third Party Technologies
(Spring, Solr, Triplestores, Plethora of Apache Libraries)
•Common Protocols
(OAI, SWORD, ORE, REST, SOAP)
•Common Data Formats
(METS, Dublin Core, RDF)
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