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• 3008 - INTERSCIENCE - THE CONCEPT OF REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES

Introduction

In order to make the installation, ongonig maintenance and upgrade of DSpace systems, simpler, more reliable and standardised it is proposed that the DSpace community adopt a reference architecture approach to DSpace.

Definition

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_architecture
• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/reference-architecture

Implementations

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/2774.html
• http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/reference-architectures
• http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/soa_refarch