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Digital Asset Management for Public Broadcasting: Blacklight (Part 3 of ??)

In the previous parts, I wrote about two “back-office” open source applications (and tangentially discussed a few others) that are well-established in their communities and can support a wide variety of repository services. While it may be philosophically important that … Continue reading

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Fedora and Microservices

In this post, I want to discuss repository architecture philosophies, although I will focus primarily on Fedora and California Digital Library microservices, there are some generalizations one can pull out of this. It would also be interesting to pull in … Continue reading

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A Fedora in a Pairtree

The California Digital Library (CDL) has released a number of exciting micro-services specifications for digital libraries. The Fedora repository from DuraSpace takes an opposite approach and has a monolithic applications comprised of a number of modules. With the modular approach, … Continue reading

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Repository workflows

One of the sessions at RIRI ’09, and a common theme across many of the conferences I attended this year, is workflows, workflow engines, and tools. Workflows initial came out of “enterprise” systems to managing web services, which moved into … Continue reading

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Federated/distributed digital repositories

For the bVault project I am developing, one of our secondary goals is to create a replicable model for other digital media repositories. One of the ways we are pursuing this is to lay the foundations for an interface to … Continue reading

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Zend_Cache for Web Services

My current project involves a number of SOAP Web Services requests to retrieve information from our Fedora repository. To help minimize overhead from HTTP requests, I‚Äôm using Zend Framework‚Äôs Zend_Cache_Frontend_Class to wrap the whole Fedora/PHP interface class. Zend_Cache allows me … Continue reading

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