NSDL EduPak: An open source education-oriented repository solution

Educational organizations and institutions focused on establishing specialized digital collections, conducting educational research, or providing students, teachers and instructors with discipline-oriented pedagogical products and tools require basic technology to begin building educational digital repositories. To help meet these needs, NDSL's Technical Network Services (TNS) has announced the release of NSDL EduPak. NSDL EduPak consists of several applications and web services used to implement nsdl.org packaged into a conbenient bundle. This poster reviews the core EduPak components, and describes the value added by each component in building education-oriented applications.