[Building Sakai] state of repositories; sharing content

[Charles Hedrick]

I have a department that wants to build up a repository of video  
content. At the moment this can be done via a separate site to which  
all faculty have access. However to use the content in the course  
you'd end up copying it. For .PDF files that might be OK, but probably  
not for a video repository.

Does anyone know of any existing development work that would be  
helpful? Can Jackrabbit, Fedora, or Dspace help? (Indeed, what state  
is the integration with them?)

I see suggestions that Jackrabbit may actually be present in Sakai,  
but I haven't found any documentation for it. Is this just another way  
to store stuff for CHS, or does it provide additional functionality?  
Can you put some things in CHS and some in Jackrabbit, or is it  
intended to migrate all content into Jackrabbit?

Would the CHS gods be willing to accept code to provide a "link"  
option for content hosting? I would just add another option to copy  
and move when moving content from another site. There would need to be  
some extra code in the kernel, but I don't think it would be a lot.