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# eFoundations
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/efoundations/
- Published: 2006-09-18T10:10:24.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:52:20.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

If they can keep up the momentum ;-), [eFoundations](https://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), a new blog by Andy Powell and Pete Johnston of Eduserv, will be worth tracking. Here is Andy beginning a discussion of repository interfaces:

> Anyway, I digress… to get back to the main point, my answer at the time can be summed up pretty simply. In short, an item bank is a repository and therefore it should support the same interfaces and standards that any other repository is expected to support – the OAI-PMH for harvesting item metadata, SRU for searching metadata and/or full-text, RSS for disseminating news feeds and other lists of items, HTTP for getting the items themselves, OpenURLs for any links to bibliographic resources and [cool URIs](https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI?ref=lorcandempsey.net) as identifiers for everything that needs to be identified. \[[eFoundations: Item banks as repositories](https://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2006/09/item%5Fbanks%5Fas%5Fr%5F1.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]