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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

Proposal for DSpace

1. Standardise on an open source server operating system such as Ubuntu LTS.
2. Match versions of DSpace to the server operating system.
3. Match versions of required software to versions of DSpace and server operating system

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