- Unlike DSpace, Fedora gives you very little out of the box
- We needed to build a range of content ingest, management and exposure software on the Fedora foundation
- Decided to partner with VTLS, Inc. in Blacksburg, VA to develop much of the software on our behalf
- This decision to partner with VTLS had a number of advantages:
- saved the ARROW project
3-6 months of startup time (hiring
programmers and getting them up to speed on the Fedora APIs)
- outsourced the risk
- provided a support base
for the software beyond the life of
the project
- contributed to the
functionality of the Fedora code base
- ensured that the ARROW
functionality benefits the global
institutional repository community
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The relationship between ARROW and VTLS is a true partnership, with
significant transfers of IP in both directions. ARROW has the ability
to influence the direction of future versions of VITAL, as well as
getting access to pre-beta code for testing and critiquing.
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