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DSpace & Fedora Integration Questions
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DuraSpace recommends that the DSpace and Fedora communities investigate strategies to allow 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 can store its contents (files and/or metadata) in Fedora. The goal is to retain 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".experience that is DSpace, while also enabling the extra features that Fedora provides (e.g. versioning, relationships between objects, flexible architecture).
What does integration mean for me? Why should I be interested?
As mentioned above, the hope is that DSpace with "Fedora Inside" will potentially enable DSpace to support extra features already provided by Fedora. Some of these features may include:
- Versioning – DSpace may be able to support Bitstream/Item/Collection/Community versioning
- Relationships between Objects – DSpace may be able to support more complex relationships between Items. For example, relating together all articles in a journal issue, or all journal issues of a specific journal. This may even help enable Journal "views" or Table of Contents "views" within DSpace.
- Flexible Architecture – DSpace may no longer be limited to the current Community -> Collection -> Item hierarchy.
That's just a small sample of features in Fedora which may be enabled in DSpace software after this integration is complete.
What are the 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:
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