Re-discovering repository architecture: adding discovery as a key service

  • Authors:

  • Peter Sefton

  • Affiliations:

  • Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

  • Venue:
  • The New Review of Information Networking - Special issue on repository architectures
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This article proposes an architecture for institutional repositories (IRs) which is more service oriented and distributed than the typical view of a repository as a monolithic software application. The discussion is informed by firsthand case-studies from work conducted in the Australian IR scene. This article shows how a reinterpretation of the monollithic architecture could help to make the repository better able to meet its goals. Finally, the architectural features suggested in the second part are drawn together into a proposed layered architecture for repository systems centered on a discovery service with a common index of multiple application services.