Hi Brent, Jonathan Markow already provided a nice overview of why DuraSpace is interested in helping steward the VIVO project.
One other thing to note. In your question, you seem to be implying that "DuraSpace" is a piece of software. DuraSpace is not a software product and it never will be. To clarify, DuraSpace is a non-profit organization that helps support several open source software projects (and a few hosted services as well). Presently, the DuraSpace organization acts as the stewards of DSpace software and Fedora software products. As Jonathan mentioned, we've just recently begun "incubation" of VIVO software. Incubation means that we are working with the VIVO developers to help transition their software development processes from grant funded to community supported in the hopes of improving long term sustainability of the project. This is very similar to the Apache Foundation's (http://www.apache.org/) "incubation" processes, if you are familiar with those. DuraSpace becoming stewards of VIVO software does NOT mean that DSpace software or Fedora software will include VIVO out-of-the-box. However, obviously we'd like to encourage all of these software products to integrate with one another (though the various user communities will decide the extent of integration between these software products). Let us know if this is still unclear. We'd be glad to clarify as needed. - Tim -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace DuraSpace.org On 5/25/2013 5:11 PM, Brent Shambaugh wrote: > Dear all, > > Regrettably, I'm a bit confused what VIVO adds to DuraSpace. It is my > understanding that DuraSpace presently only harvests metadata but VIVO > allows for searching of Metadata through LOD and LD (1), (2), (?). I am > aware of another project called Fedora supported by DuraSpace, which > includes a repository that is more flexible than DSpace (3). In the talk > by Jonathan Markow (4), Fedora synergy with VIVO was given as an > example. Thank you for your time. > > Brent > > (1) http://www.duraspace.org/dspace-futures > (2) https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/OAI+2.0+Server > (3) http://duraspace.org/dspace_or_fedora > (4) > http://www.vivoweb.org/files/presentations/12Thu/DuraSpace_and_VIVO-Jonathan-Markow.pdf > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
