Fedora, Drupal, and Cloud Computing for a Low-Cost, Sustainable DAM Ari Davidow [email_address]

10 years+ of audio and video oral histories 6TB Data

What if there is a disaster?

Optical Media are not a preservation format Optical Media

Optical Media

are not a preservation format

How to get there? Jungle Disk - $20 / www.jungledisk.com

Jungle Disk - $20 / www.jungledisk.com

Digital Asset Mgmt Phase One

Phase One

Open Source vs. Proprietary vs. DIY All have advantages: You need to consider your resources, where you want to put them, where your successor will wish you had put them TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)

Open Source vs. Proprietary vs. DIY

All have advantages:

You need to consider your resources,

where you want to put them,

where your successor will wish you had put them

TANSTAAFL

(There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)

Admin Entryway to JWA’s WWII online Collection Project, based in Drupal

Administering a media object in Drupal. You will see similar metadata being gathered in our Fedora implementation

Control panel for Amazon Web Services

Agile Development

Agile Development Put usable tools in people’s hands quickly Short, iterative programming cycles (usually, 4-6 weeks) Use cards/whiteboard to note requests When you have an acceptable set of cards that can be done in 4-6 weeks, you have your next cycle planned

Put usable tools in people’s hands quickly

Short, iterative programming cycles (usually, 4-6 weeks)

Use cards/whiteboard to note requests

When you have an acceptable set of cards that can be done in 4-6 weeks, you have your next cycle planned

Issue Tracking www.redmine.org

Code Delivery Our current “let there be no ambiguity” method: Finished code must be checked into a repository It must be documented in a wiki or other online doc tool We must be able to check out the code, follow installation instructions, and successfully integrate/launch/run the application

Our current “let there be no ambiguity” method:

Finished code must be checked into a repository

It must be documented in a wiki or other online doc tool

We must be able to check out the code, follow installation instructions, and successfully integrate/launch/run the application

Contents of a typical Oral History

Editing metadata for typical Oral History in our Fedora Repository

Repository Entryway

Next Projects OAI-ORE “media-show” tool Integrate Oral Histories with existing exhibits as they are pulled into Drupal UPEI Drupal module Focus on search: Lucene/SOLR is cool, but we will have to do much to make it “ours” DuraSpace? Small Archives Fedora SIG – BOF breakfast on Friday

OAI-ORE “media-show” tool

Integrate Oral Histories with existing exhibits as they are pulled into Drupal

UPEI Drupal module

Focus on search: Lucene/SOLR is cool, but we will have to do much to make it “ours”

DuraSpace?

Small Archives Fedora SIG – BOF breakfast on Friday