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Building OhioLINK’s Digital Resource Commons

A Multi-Media, Multi-Institution(And Sometimes Even Open Access)

Research Repository

ACRL STS, June 24, 2007

OK, When You Say “Repository…”

Three definitions in play


“The central digital repository…will include: 1) both born-digital and digital surrogates, 2) acquired electronic content (both on-site and off-site), 3) user projects once they have been selected as appropriate for addition to library resources.” (UVa)

“…a single shared solution for the preservation, management, and controlled dissemination of digital collections that support research, teaching, and learning.” (CDL)

“…a place to capture, share and preserve digital resoures.” (Willamette)

“A repository is a collection of resources that can be accessed to retrieve information. Repositories often consist of several databases tied together by a common search engine.” (about.com)

OhioLINK Digital Media Center

dmc.ohiolink.eduArt and Architecture

1999: Art Collection (AMICO), Saskia

2000: Art and Architecture from Univ of Cincinnati

2001: Akron Art Museum Images

2002: WPA Prints By Cleveland Artists

Video Collections

2002: Foreign Language Instruction Videos

2002: Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations

2003: Educational Films And Documentaries (FFHS, Ambrose)

OhioLINK Digital Media Center

dmc.ohiolink.eduHistory and Archives

2001: Wright Brothers Collection

2001: E.W. Scripps Papers

2001: Mayan Archeology Photos

2001: Sanborn Historic Maps

2002: Greek and Latin Inscriptions (squeezes)

2003: Lake Erie’s Yesterdays

2003: Nat’l Underground RR Freedom Ctr Images

2004: Historic Maps of Akron

2005: Kent State Shootings Oral Histories

Science Collections

1999: Landsat Satellite Images of Ohio

2003: Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Digital Animal Sounds(1 | 2)

2004: Geology Digital Photographs(1 | 2)

2004: Ohio Ag Experiment Station Forestry Images

2004: Reproductive Physiology Animations

2004: Dolphin Embryos

Oh By The Way

Electronic Journal Center: 8.8 million locally loaded journal articles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations: 10,000 ETDs from 17 schools

Coupla thousand locally loaded e-books

~80 million records from A&I databases ~10 million bib records in union catalog


“…a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects. Digital objects can encapsulate locally-managed content or make reference to remote content. Dynamic views are possible by associating web services with objects. Digital objects exist within a repository architecture that supports a variety of management functions. All functions of Fedora, both at the object and repository level, are exposed as web services. These functions can be protected with fine-grained access control policies.” (fedora.info)

OhioLINK Services, June 2006

EJC

DMC

ETDC

IR

Catalog A/I DBs


EJC

DMC

ETDC

IR

Ingest, Store, Discover, Display


Ingest, Store, Search, Display


Catalog A/I DBs


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DMC

ETDC

IR





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EJC

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DRC

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ETDC

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IR

Ingest

Store

Discover

Display

Catalog A/I DBs

Open S

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Open Source AdvocacyThe Early Days

Why Open Source?Beyond Evangelism

Best of breed software Server software: Apache, Tomcat Repository: Fedora Middleware: XTF, DLXS Search: Lucene, Solr XML Tools, programming languages

Freedom to play (Freedom to fail?)

Which Adds Up To…

Ingest: XML + HTTP + programming language of choice

Repository: Fedora Discovery/Interface: XML +HTTP +

XTF? DLXS? Web programming language of choice?

Search: Lucene/Solr


An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating – in digital form – the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.

For a university, this would include materials such as research journal articles, before (preprints) and after (postprints) publication, undergoing peer review, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but it might also include other digital assets generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects.

The two main objectives for having an institutional repository are:

to provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it;

to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost (“grey”) literature (e.g., theses or technical reports).

(Wikipedia. Yes, I sometimes cite Wikipedia.)

Here’s a funny thing about ALA program scheduling…

April 2006: speakers needed for 2007 STS program. OhioLINK Institutional Repository due RSN

April 2007: OhioLINK Institutional Repository due RSN

June 2007: OhioLINK Institutional Repository now called “Branded DRC” – due RSN

Here’s a funny thing about ALA program scheduling…

Fall 2006: OhioLINK licenses a boatload (~7500) of e-books from OUP, Springer.

DMC software license expires.

Development sidesteps into Michigan’s DLXS and CDL’s XTF software.

Why Not Just Install DSpace?

Welcome To OhioLINK

Why Not Just Install Several Dozen Copies of DSpace?

We need Wide variations in content, interface

demands: (high resolution images, e-journals, e-books…)

Inter-institutional browsing, searching Metasearch integration

Wait, Why Not Just Install Several Dozen Copies of

DSpace?The section of this presentation that I hurriedly rewrote this weekend…

Branded DRC: What I Can Tell You

Branding is more than a logo Implementation must look more like

part of library web site than Yet Another Implementation of Repository X

Branding Sense of ownership Participation Critical Mass

Play Well With Others: OAI-PMH

Rep. 1Rep. 2

Rep. 3

Workable

Play Well With Others: OAI-PMH

Unworkable

“Overall, the speaker knew what he was talking about”

[ ] Yes[ ] No[ ] It’s complicated

Thomas [email protected]

OhioLINK DMC: http://dmc.ohiolink.eduETD Center: http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/

http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/

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