<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005>FYI</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005>At <A href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/choudhury/12choudhury.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/choudhury/12choudhury.html</A>  you can read:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005>"<SPAN style="BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">JHU was already experimenting with Fedora and had tested ingestion of content into DSpace. The opportunity to get more hands-on experience with the facilities of these two open source efforts was an additional motivator. At a higher level, though, we were even more interested in the possibility of implementing a layer of abstraction (an application programming interface or API) over existing repository applications. Such an abstraction would allow other applications to interact with at least some facilities of a repository without knowing with which repository application (e.g., DSpace, Fedora) it is interacting. The AIHT gave us an opportunity to test the feasibility of constructing such a layer and to determine the ease with which such a layer could be applied in practice. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-highlight: yellow; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are conducting a technology analysis of repositories and services to continue and build on this work. More information is available on our project wiki.<SUP><A href="outbind://54/#1">1</A></SUP></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> </SPAN>"</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=438041203-17122005><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">See the project wiki at <A href="https://wiki.library.jhu.edu/display/RepoAnalysis/ProjectRepository">https://wiki.library.jhu.edu/display/RepoAnalysis/ProjectRepository</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes, Henry</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.     </FONT><A href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2> <SPAN class=438041203-17122005>  </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>HMG Consulting</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>