The Mellon Fedora Project: Digital Library Architecture Meets XML and Web Services

The University of Virginia received a grant of $1,000,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable the Library, in collaboration with Cornell University, to build a digital object repository system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new sy...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2013-12
Main Authors: Payette, Sandra, Staples, Thornton
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges & universities
Computer architecture
Digital libraries
Digital systems
Libraries
Object repository
Source code
Web services
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Summary:The University of Virginia received a grant of $1,000,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable the Library, in collaboration with Cornell University, to build a digital object repository system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new system demonstrates how distributed digital library architecture can be deployed using web-based technologies, including XML and Web services. The new system is designed to be a foundation upon which interoperable web-based digital libraries can be built. Virginia and collaborating partners in the US and UK will evaluate the system using a diverse set of digital collections. The software will be made available to the public as an open-source release.
ISSN:2331-8422