Mellon report on DuraSpace project

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Program in Research in Information Technology, DuraSpace -- a joint service developed by DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons, project report, February 13, 2009. (Thanks to Les Carr and Charles Bailey.)

... Over the next six months funding from the planning grant will allow the organizations to jointly specify and design "DuraSpace," a new web-based service that will allow institutions to easily distribute content to multiple storage providers, both "cloud-based" and institution-based. The idea behind DuraSpace is to provide a trusted, value-added service layer to augment the capabilities of generic storage providers by making stored digital content more durable, manageable, accessible and sharable. ...