A Technology Analysis of Repositories and Services

The Ten Thousand Year Blog mentioned this a couple of weeks ago and I'm just getting around to checking it out. This wiki's homepage says:

The Digital Knowledge Center (DKC), working with the University of Virginia (UVA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an extensive network of collaborators, will conduct an architecture and technology evaluation of repository software and services such as e-learning, e-publishing, and digital preservation. The result will be a set of best practices and recommendations that will inform the development of repositories, services, and appropriate interfaces. This project is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

The repository systems currently listed on the site are:

• Digital Commons
• DiVAD
• PubS
• DSpace
• ePrints
• Fedora
• JSR 170
• OJS
• Sakai
• "Status Quo" Core Internet Technologies

There aren't notes available for all of them, but then this is a work in progress. Nothing on the site states their timeline, so patience may be in order.

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