Description: Downloadable computer software in the nature of middleware software for identifying, storing, accessing, processing, and disseminating digital objects, which are data structures whose principal components are digital material plus a unique identifier for this material and other information pertaining to the data; transmission of electronic data, namely, dissemination of data in the form of digital objects, which are data structures whose principal components are digital material plus a unique identifier for this material and other information pertaining to the data; data processing services, namely, registering, processing, storing, and providing access to digital objects, and other information pertaining to digital objects, which are data structures whose principal components are digital material plus a unique identifier for this material; computer services, namely, providing storage of digital objects and other information pertaining to the digital objects, which are data structures whose principal components are digital material plus a unique identifier for this material; creation of network-accessible indexes and metadata for such digital objects and other information pertaining to the digital objects; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable middleware software for identifying, resolving, storing, accessing, processing, and disseminating such digital objects and other information pertaining to the digital objects