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For some time there has been interest among DuraSpace communities in having Fedora act as either a robust storage layer or archive layer behind the DSpace application, while maintaining the out-of-the-box DSpace experience. DuraSpace supports these interests, and recommends that the DSpace & Fedora Communities investigate strategies to develop a DSpace application that has "Fedora Inside".
There is 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.
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