Final Report

This document provides the final report for “A Technology Analysis of Repositories and Services.” With funding from the Mellon Foundation, the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University has conducted an analysis of repositories and services based on a methodology for connecting user requirements with repository programmatic features. The Sheridan Libraries considered a diverse range of content types and end user services by developing and gathering numerous scenarios from multiple institutions, and collaborating particularly with MIT, UVA, and ProQuest to evaluate DSpace 1.3.2 (http://dspace.org), Fedora 2.0 (http://www.fedora.info), and Digital Commons (http://www.proquest.com/products_umi/digitalcommons). In all cases, we worked with the “out of the box” system and documented APIs. It is important to note that our analysis focused on the ability of each of these systems to support specific functionality through documented APIs. Future work should include additional analysis of other means for supporting functionality (e.g., user interface or application based import or access), and of additional systems (e.g., ePrints).

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