Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA)

  • Authors:
  • Sandra Payette;Carl Lagoze

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ECDL '98 Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We describe a digital object and respository architecture for storing and disseminating digital library content. The key features of the architecture are: (1) support for heterogeneous data types; (2) accommodation of new types as they emerge; (3) aggregation of mixed, possibly distributed, data into complex objects; (4) the ability to specify multiple content disseminations of these objects; and (5) the ability to associate rights management schemes with these disseminations. This architecture is being implemented in the context of a broader research project to develop next-generation service modules for a layered digital library architecture.