On 20 Jan 2011, at 09:00, Ian Stuart wrote: > On 19/01/11 17:26, Richard Jones wrote: >> Also, as per my earlier comment about export plugins in EPrints, you >> could easily imagine throwing a known package format into the >> repository, and then asking it to give you it back in a variety of >> formats that you don't know how to generate yourself. > Hmmmm...... interesting! > I see a future development for the OA-RJ broker there!!
With K-Int we produced something called the Content Transcoder which was a cloud service for doing just this using common e-learning packaging formats (SCORM, IMS-CP, IMS-CC etc) http://purl.oclc.org/NET/transcoder Adding a SWORD endpoint to it might make for a nice example. > > >> It's been a long standing complaint against SWORD that despite it being >> an "interoperability" standard, you can't even deposit the same package >> into DSpace, EPrints and Fedora, let alone other implementations that >> weren't funded as part of the original project. From both a practical >> point of view and a community perception point of view this has to be >> addressed. > This is an issue that the OA-RJ Project is addressing with the Broker work. > Our initial work is to produce a single importable package, and the importers > that go with them, so that the Broker can pass on an Item to a number of > target repositories. > > (There is a future development idea which would be to allow each target > repository to identify the package format it wanted, and the Broker would > transfer in that package.... but that is a *much* slower mechanism when > dealing with multi-institutional papers) > > -- > > Ian Stuart. > Developer: Open Access Repository Junction and OpenDepot.org > Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, > EDINA, > The University of Edinburgh. > > http://edina.ac.uk/ > > This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh. > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >
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