RIFF

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[edit] Repository Interoperability Framework (RIFF)

The APSR RIFF initiatives are a suite of complementary and highly collaborative development activities to be undertaken by APSR partners.

The RIFF projects define specific scholarly communications ‘workflows’, for example a journals workflow, and develop the software ‘services’ required to integrate these workflows with DSpace and Fez+Fedora.

Workflows are defined here as end-to-end scholarly publishing and communications processes that utilize institutional repositories for the preservation, discovery of and access to digital content.

In a nutshell, this involves adapting open-source software environments typically used for research and scholarly publishing (such as the Open Journal System) so that digital content can be automatically transferred to DSpace and Fez+Fedora collections.

This is archived through the development of a Submission Service, which processes the data out put from the various workflow sources, translates these into Submission Information Packages (SIP) that are encoded using the APSR METS profile and routed the either DSpace or Fedora.

Once organized in repository collections, the content is then disseminated through Manakin, a cross-platform repository presentation framework.