Osprey: peer-to-peer enabled content distribution John Reuning and Paul Jones   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Poster Session Abstract .Osprey (http://osprey.ibiblio.org) addresses these problems by combining a flexible metadata management system with the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. A Web database application provides searching and browsing of collection objects, and the peer-to-peer component lowers the bandwidth costs by employing distributed downloading. The Permaseed application supplies reliable, persistent peer-to-peer access to files in the digital repository. BIBTEX  1   Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis , Diomidis Spinellis, A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.36 n.4, p.335-371, December 2004 2   Mayank Bawa , Brian F. Cooper , Arturo Crespo , Neil Daswani , Prasanna Ganesan , Hector Garcia-Molina , Sepandar Kamvar , Sergio Marti , Mario Schlosser , Qi Sun , Patrick Vinograd , Beverly Yang, Peer-to-peer research at Stanford, ACM SIGMOD Record, v.32 n.3, September 2003 3   B. Cohen. Incentives build robustness in bittorrent. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer systems, June 2003.}, ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery