[Sigdl-l] [Fwd: August 2002 Issue of RLG DigiNews is Now Available]

[Pascal V. Calarco]

This issue includes some brief information on a very interesting 
Mellon-funded collaboration project between Cornell and University of 
Virginia to buld an open-source digital repository system building on 
the work previous accomplished with the Flexible Extensible Digital 
Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA).

What I find particularly exciting about this project is that we have not 
generally seen the deliverables of major grant-funded digital library 
projects to be made available to wider communities via open source 
(although there are some notable exceptions).  Through open sourcing 
these deliverables, a wider community can be brought into using the 
standards and tools developed from these projects, and they can achieve 
a life beyond the experimental prototypes and testbeds that have limited 
many of the major digital library deliverable systems.  Let's hope we 
see more of this open source technology transfer in the future!

   - pascal

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Pascal V. Calarco, MLIS, AHIP
Head, Library Information Systems
VCU Libraries
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
E-mail: pvcalarc at vcu.edu
http://www.library.vcu.edu/
tel.: 804-828-0032
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