Merritt: new features and functionality

UC3 Summer Webinar Series Merritt Repository Service:Update of New Functionality August 22, 2012 Adrian Turner and Perry Willett

First, a word about the webinar series…• Some logistics… – Participant phones will be muted during the formal presentation, but we will be monitoring the online chat – Slides, Q & A, and web and voice recordings will be posted after each presentation – Schedule available at http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/uc3webinars.html – Please suggest additional topics! uc3@ucop.eduAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Today’s presentation• New functionality to Merritt: – Public access – Persistent URLs – Integration with access systems – Support for Dublin core records – Click-through license agreements – Simplified ingest – Other integrations/collaborationsAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

• Curation repository open to the UC community and beyond • Discipline / content agnostic • Micro-services architecture • Easy-to-use UI or API Primary Functions 1. Deposit 2. Manage (metadata, versions, etc) 3. Access (expose) 4. Share (with other researchers) 5. PreserveAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Modes of use• Dark archive for important digital assets• Bright archive with direct discovery and access• Preservation back-end for existing or new discovery and content management systems and services• Integration with distributed data gridsAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

New features and enhancements

Public collections• Option to designate collection as open to the public or keep restricted• Can provide public access to entire object in the collection (metadata + associated files)• Or can provide public access to view metadata while restricting associated filesAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

There’s an option for “guest” loginAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Shows your login status Lists the permissions you have available to content in each collection—options are • Read • Download • WriteAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Choosing one of the collections brings you to the list of objectsAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

• View key citation metadata, • Download individual versions • ... or download all versionsAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Persistent links• Persistent URLs to object landing pages using EZID – n2t.net/object-ID• Persistent URLs to version landing page: – merritt.cdlib.org/m/object-ID/version• Persistent URLs to file components – merritt.cdlib.org/d/object-ID/version/filename.ext• Optimized for public collectionsAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

The permanent link is listed on the object landing page for each object Clicking on the “Download object” button has the same effect as the URL below Object page: http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5tb8w98Download: http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3a%2f13030%2fm5tb8w98 August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Version landing pages also have permanent URLs Individual files can be referenced using persistent URLs alsoVersion page: http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/ark%3a%2f13030%2fm52b8w98/2Link to file: http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3a%2f13030%2fm52b8w98/2/mrt-erc.txt August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Integration with XTF• Working with UCSF DataShare• Process: – Retrieve Atom feed for collection – Find and retrieve metadata records – Store metadata locally – Index using XTF• Similar process should work for other integrations, eg Blacklight/SolrAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

RSS feed for collectionURL to RSS feed: https://merritt.cdlib.org/object/recent.atom?collection=ark:/13030/m5nc5zgt August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

RSS feed for collectionAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Support for Dublin Core records• Now possible to submit Dublin Core XML file instead of ERC metadata – Only simple/unqualified DC – Use filename: “mrt-dc.xml”• Metadata generator beta: http://cdlib-stage.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datashare/generator_nq.htmlAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Click-through license• Possible to add a data user agreement (DUA) at the collection level• Every time someone tries to download an object from the collection, they would first be presented with the DUA• Copies sent to CDL, to data owner, and to enduserAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

For collections using DUAs, clicking on the “Download object” button or using the download URL leads to…August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Terms Personal informationAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Once the required fields are filled in, click the Accept button…August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

And thedownloadbegins

Simplified ingest interface• You no longer need to specify the type of submission (file, container, manifest)• Just submit the file, and we’ll do the rest!August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Future developments• Improved download for large objects• Moving some functionality to object level—public option, DUAs• Updating objects with just the changed components• Public catalog of Merritt collections (testing with XTF and Blacklight)• Drag-and-drop submission similar to Flickr, DropboxAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Integrations/Collaborations• UCSF Datashare (using XTF)• UC Berkeley IST: Research Hub (using Alfresco)• UCLA Library and Discovery Garden: Islandora (using Drupal)• DataONE• DataUp (coming soon!) http://dcxl.cdlib.orgAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Additional resources• Merritt service: https://merritt.cdlib.org/• UC3 Curation Wiki: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Home – Development plans – Use cases and deployment profiles – TRAC self-audit and cost modeling – And more...August 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

Questions?• Contact us at uc3@ucop.edu• http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/contact.htmlAugust 22, 2012 Merritt: New Functionality

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