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Stephen Downes

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MIT and Hewlett-Packard are creating foundation for DSpace, the MIT brand of Open Archive Initiative (OAI) software. According to the HP press release, "Jointly developed by HP and the MIT Libraries beginning in 2002, today more than 200 projects worldwide are using the software to digitally capture, preserve and share their artifacts, documents, collections and research data." More from Peter Suber here, as he quotes Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Andrea Foster: "A foundering project to promote free digital archives of scholarship is getting new life." Foundering? Only in the Chronicle's blithered imagination.

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