Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Library Director
Johns Hopkins University

With funding from the Mellon Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University has conducted a technology analysis of repositories and services. At the Spring 2005 CNI Task Force meeting, Hopkins described the methodology for this analysis, which focused on "an architecture and technology research evaluation of repository software and services such as e-publishing, e-learning, and digital preservation." Working with several organizations, including MIT, the University of Virginia, ProQuest and the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Hopkins has identified and gathered dozens of scenarios that represent a useful list of content types and potential services. These scenarios, in turn, informed the development of use cases, repository "key events" and functional requirements. The Hopkins team used these functional requirements to analyze the ability for DSpace, Fedora, and Digital Commons to support the needs identified through the scenarios. This presentation will provide the results from this analysis, with a discussion of the possible next steps for subsequent analyses.

Web Site:
https://wiki.library.jhu.edu/display/RepoAnalysis/ProjectRepository

Handout (MS Word)