NSDL EduPak 1.0 is a lightweight version of NCore. Built using NCore components, EduPak is an all-in-one, open source, education digital repository solution bundle that provides a general platform for building digital libraries united by a common data model and interoperable applications. EduPak services include:
NCore Digital Repository: The Digital Repository (NDR) uses Fedora open source repository software version 2.2.4 to model and manage digital objects such as resources, metadata and agents. Fedora provides digital object and repository administrative functions as well as flexible, extensible views of the repository and its digital objects via web services.
NCore Collection System: The NCore Collection System (NCS) creates and manages collections of metadata within a NDR. The NCS is a flexible XML- driven tool that provides a full-featured metadata editor, collection work flow processes, and a role-based permission system in support of distributed and collaborative collections management. The NCS transparently writes metadata and collection-level information to a NDR using the NCore Application Programming Interface (API).
Search: The search application consists of the Digital Discovery Service (DDS) providing search and retrieval services for resources that reside in a NDR. The service is optimized to support the rapid construction of audience- specific portals and applications and can be flexibly configured to search over any XML schema structure. A range of information retrieval features is available from the service including textual and field- based searches such as audience, subject, resource type or content standard. DDS also supports geospatial search and can be integrated with Web 2.0 applications such as Google Maps.