Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - Introducing Pergamos: A Fedora-based Digital Library System utilizing Digital Object Prototypes

Introducing Pergamos: A Fedora-based Digital Library System utilizing Digital Object Prototypes (PowerPoint)
Kostas Saidis

- provide the means to treat content variations in a unified manner

- for digital object they want behaviors according to nature: if it is a book, give us the pages, we
don't care about the encoding

Digital Object Typing Info

* Humans interpret Content Models (in this case)
* problems: tool weaknesses

Preferred: DL should resolve DO type automatically, e.g. force conformity

DO Object Prototypes, based on OO methodology
- content
- private behaviors
- public behavior