Vol. 1, Number 4, December 18, 2008

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A Repository-Centered Workspace for Scholars by Thornton Staples

In our ongoing efforts to organize communities around solution areas well suited to Fedora, we have begun working on multiple fronts to encourage what we have been calling "scholars' repositories." Dedicated to the idea that born-digital scholarly materials will need to be created in repository-enabled environments in order to be sustained, solutions in this area will need to foster creation, management and even dissemination of content in ways that are completely under the control its owner. Rather than assuming that the repository is a final resting place for content, this approach assumes that content is created in a dynamic repository at the beginning of its lifecycle in such a way that it can be used and controlled by its owner for as long as desired, then handed off to other authorities for sustaining over the long-term at the appropriate time. (MORE)