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That's just a small sample of Fedora features, and how they may map into DSpace features. We hope that this integration will be advantageous to both platforms, and promote more sharing and collaboration between these communities.
What
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- A way to extract the items from DSpace's current internal store, along with all of their relationships (communities, collections, and Epeople).
- Related Project(s): DuraSpace is currently developing this as a general, backup/restore AIP capability for DSpace.
- An implementation of the DSpace data model using the Fedora repository.
- Related Project(s): There is prior art (which would need to be updated) for this from Google Summer of Code 2008 and Google Summer of Code 2009. There is also a current GSoC 2010 project to backport DSpace 2.x Storage Services to 1.x – this work may enable the ability to use prior Fedora integrations in the DSpace 1.x platform.
- A conversion, crosswalking, or import utility for the above two items.
- Related Project(s): At this time, there is neither a schedule nor a commitment for this work.
- Designing an integration of the DSpace business logic, User authentication and authorization with Fedora.
- Related Project(s): At this time, there is neither a schedule nor a commitment for this work.
- Porting the DSpace user, administrative, and web services interface applications to run against the resulting environment.
- Related Project(s): At this time, there is neither a schedule nor a commitment for this work.
Not all of these steps need to be completed for some models of operation involving running DSpace and Fedora as distinct, cooperating applications.
What is the proposed end result of this integration?
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Whether all storage layers support the same features is another question. It may be possible that only certain storage layers will be able to support certain features (like file versioning).
What are the technical plans for integrating the DSpace application with the Fedora repository platform?
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There is already work underway that may eventually enable an option to run the DSpace application on top of a Fedora repository. To achieve this would require a series of technological developments:
- A way to extract the items from DSpace's current internal store, along with all of their relationships (communities, collections, and Epeople).
- Related Project(s): DuraSpace is currently developing this as a general, backup/restore AIP capability for DSpace.
- An implementation of the DSpace data model using the Fedora repository.
- Related Project(s): There is prior art (which would need to be updated) for this from Google Summer of Code 2008 and Google Summer of Code 2009. There is also a current GSoC 2010 project to backport DSpace 2.x Storage Services to 1.x – this work may enable the ability to use prior Fedora integrations in the DSpace 1.x platform.
- A conversion, crosswalking, or import utility for the above two items.
- Related Project(s): At this time, there is neither a schedule nor a commitment for this work.
- Designing an integration of the DSpace business logic, User authentication and authorization with Fedora.
- Related Project(s): At this time, there is neither a schedule nor a commitment for this work.
- Porting the DSpace user, administrative, and web services interface applications to run against the resulting environment.
- Related Project(s): At this time, there is neither a schedule nor a commitment for this work.
Not all of these steps need to be completed for some models of operation involving running DSpace and Fedora as distinct, cooperating applications.
How is this work being supported?
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