Middleware for Distributed Cognition (MDC)
The MDC project provides an intuitive web interface for searching repositories and creating resource lists. The software implements the Z39.50 and SRW search protocols, the OpenURL v.0.1 discovery specification and the IMS Resource List Interoperability Data Model. MDC is designed to be easily integrated into other user-agent layer software (Portals, VLE, Learning Design Systems etc)
Funded under: JISC ELF Toolkits (2004)
Domain area: Repositories
Software type: Web Application
Platform: JAVA (Platform Independent)
Documentation: MDC Final Report
Example instantiation: http://jafer2.oucs.ox.ac.uk:8080/MDC/search.jsp
Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jafer/
Related projects
The MDC project is part of the JAFER project which provides the search server.
More information:
For more on how this project fits into the wider e-Learning programme see: e-Learning Focus
