Relatedly, just today Fedora Commons and DSpace have announced a project called "DuraSpace":
'''Over the next six months funding from the planning grant will allow the organizations to jointly specify and design "DuraSpace," a new web-based service that will allow institutions to easily distribute content to multiple storage providers, both "cloud-based" and institution-based. The idea behind DuraSpace is to provide a trusted, value-added service layer to augment the capabilities of generic storage providers by making stored digital content more durable, manageable, accessible and sharable.''' Full press release here: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=74&Itemid=175 Keith