Wednesday afternoon notes

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017
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Afternoon session, Wednesday, December 7, 2011:

Rick Johnson - University  of Notre Dame

  • The Seaside Research Portal
  • Archiving the Worlds first new Urbanist Community
  • Each area contains an essay and associated images; e.g. multiple versions of a town plan - can animate to view town over time. 
  • Blacklight site, backed by data managed in a separate Hydra Head
  • Searching  - showing search geo-mapped materials. 
  • Fedora for images; Otherwise content is from Solr
  • Working on Blacklight Gem called Atrium
  • Atrium - Like Omeka for Blacklight; Gem on top of Blacklight like Hydra; Uses Blacklight database with some added tables;
  • Using CKEditor for adding and editing essays
  • Can associate facet filters to indicate a collections' scope
  • Create Ad-hoc collections; select from available facets for collection to show in search page;
  • Can add exhibits to a collection; 
  • Can have multiple exhibit within a collection; Can add exhibit facet filters, inheriting its collection filters as well.
  • Currently have 1 default layout; Plan to have multiple styles to choose from for collections and exhibits
  • Will migrate "Seaside" to use Atrium fully.
  • Supports hierarchical facets; Can reorder facet hierarchy for a specific exhibit
  • 'Customize this page" feature available on any page in the tree. 
  • Authorization using CanCan
  • Next Steps:
  • Multiple Style/Layout Templates to choose from
  • Index essay full-text content in Solr
  • Remove Fedora dependency
  • Define a collection from a static list as opposed to a Solr filter
  • Starting discussions with campus partners on data management
  • As Atrium is a Gem over Blacklight like Hydra, it will need some work to coexist with Hydra;

  

Richard Green - University of Hull

  • Building Hydra over an existing repository
  • Public and "Logged in" views
  • Object types include:
    • ETDs
    • Learning materials
    • Datasets
    • Regulations
    • Conference papers…
    • Handbooks
    • HR documents
    • Meeting papers or minutes
    • Conference papers or abstracts
  • Sets;
    • Groups of objects that require context, for example
    • Martine animal datasets
    • Datasets around doomsday book
  • Currently written for Rails 2, but have a development server in Rails 3;
  • Sets contain splash page that provides context and then the set of members
  • Formats available: html, Excel, PDF,  QR Code
  • Everything is in MODS, UKETD_DC, and DC Metadata
  • Running Proai  
  • Repository content originates from other sources / workflows besides Hydra
  • Rails 3 development system also exposes workflow queue and current workflow state indexed / faceted. 
  • Plan to use Fedora's JMS messaging to trigger Solr indexing;
  • Committee papers Set has a rights datastream, which is copied on new objects associated with that Set.
  • Solrizer is doing full-text indexing
  • Multiple content models supporting various types; Can hook different Ruby models in for different displays in this way.
  • In Production since end of September 2011
  • Currently in a JISC funded project - in discussion with History department about their datasets that also contain geo-data; Workflows for processing Access databases; Image collection also needs workflow support;
  • No authority control over repository cataloging
  • Whats the difference between Hull "structural sets" and Stanford APOs? SS can inherit parent SS policies. APO policies do not inherit. 

  

Ben Armintor - Columbia University

  • Version of Argo Set management. Using RELS-EXT for aggregation; Also metadata / facet groupings. Currently using MODS relatedItem; 
  • Multiple image formats and sizes; Large tiff images too big for Ruby buffering; 
  • Audio content; Large audio files from digitization process ~ 1G; Segmented into individual interviews; ADL metadata on how splicing/segmenting occurred; METS files for pulling interview segments and their ADL together.
  • Happy with Rails 3 support for engines
  • There are also transcripts available as associated 'resources' for the audio.
  • UVa is also working with media plus transcripts
  • Interested in annotations;
  • Performs analysis of image technical metadata / geometry into RELS-EXT for decision on what to use for thumbnail and other format sizes.
  • Interested in round table on image management models; e.g. when we have multiple derivatives at different sizes
  • Indiana University has been making similar use of ADL and METS.

Brad McLean - DuraSpace

  • Ongoing conversations about Fedora scaling; Want parallel solution for cloud environments. DuraCloud is interested in this topic;
  • Looking at breaking out separate components of Fedora for distributed configuration and dynamic scaling. Also want Fedora to work well in a single system deployment.
  • Looking at clustered database solution
  1. Working on "high level storage" 
  2. DSpace with Fedora inside it. Data round-tripping DSpace <-> Fedora; Now looking at DSpace user interfaces and workflows; Blacklight for end-user pieces; Ingest workflows could be addressed with Hydra heads, one of many possible solutions in discussion. May discuss this in the context of "One week / One head" at this Hydra Partners' meeting.
  3. With Sloan grant (through 2012), working for version of DuraCloud for researchers who are using cloud-based services for their work and have archivists concerned about how that data will be preserved.