A distributed digital library has been designed and implemented for
the support of community radios. This framework, developed by the StreamOn-
TheFly IST project of the EU, provides a common background for preparation,
archival, exchange and reuse of radio programs and supports radio personalization.
The architecture is based on a decentralized network of software components
using automatic metadata replication in a peer-to-peer manner. This approach
combines the principles and practice of OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
with the peer-to-peer networking paradigm, and extends usual content dissemination
with the aggregation of use statistics and user feedback. The network also
promotes social self-organization of the community and a new common metadata
schema and content exchange format
