Biodiversity Heritage Library Articles Marine Biological Library, Woods Hole, MA March 9, 2009 Phil Cryer System Architect Chris Moyers Developer

BHL Articles - Overview Marine Biological Library, Woods Hole, MA March 9, 2009 Frontend (display)‏ Drupal 6 Open Source CMS projected began in 2000 100s of modules available to add new features widely used proven on large sites Biblio module for bibliographies being used for Lifedesk and Scratchpads responsive developer version 1.0 just released March 6, 2009 (win)‏ Community networking users create groups, build audience role based groups to allow further access flexible permissions Backend (architecture)‏ Debian GNU/Linux operating system project began in 1993 Apache most widely used web server stable, secure, well developed PHP very popular scripting language MySQL relational database server Solr search engine built on Lucene Java based, faceted search

Frontend (display)‏

Drupal 6

Open Source CMS

projected began in 2000

100s of modules available to add new features

widely used

proven on large sites

Biblio module for bibliographies

being used for Lifedesk and Scratchpads

responsive developer

version 1.0 just released March 6, 2009 (win)‏

Community networking

users create groups, build audience

role based groups to allow further access

flexible permissions

Backend (architecture)‏

Debian GNU/Linux

operating system

project began in 1993

Apache

most widely used web server

stable, secure, well developed

PHP

very popular scripting language

MySQL

relational database server

Solr

search engine built on Lucene

Java based, faceted search

BHL Articles - Demo Marine Biological Library, Woods Hole, MA March 9, 2009 1. An individual user contributes their own bibliography user joins BHLA site and uploads a single bibliography [1] 2. User joins a group finds group, requests to join group user is allowed to a group 3. User contributes to their group user uploads a PDF to a related bibliography record [2] 4. Individual user manages their own content user modifies or corrects his/her own existing record 5. A group manages their shared content manager shares, un-shares, modifies or corrects existing record [1] Bib http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/tmp/decapoda_bibtex.txt (41K)‏ ‏ [2] PDF http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/tmp/0107.pdf (288K)‏ PDF http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/tmp/000264300031795.pdf (17M)

1. An individual user contributes their own bibliography

user joins BHLA site and uploads a single bibliography [1]

2. User joins a group

finds group, requests to join group

user is allowed to a group

3. User contributes to their group

user uploads a PDF to a related bibliography record [2]

4. Individual user manages their own content

user modifies or corrects his/her own existing record

5. A group manages their shared content

manager shares, un-shares, modifies or corrects existing record

[1] Bib http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/tmp/decapoda_bibtex.txt (41K)‏

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[2] PDF http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/tmp/0107.pdf (288K)‏

PDF http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/tmp/000264300031795.pdf (17M)

BHL Articles - Future Marine Biological Library, Woods Hole, MA March 9, 2009 Requirements gathering open the site to a select test group to help define functionality seed groups to encourage community building and social interaction develop site based on feedback from target users add more records (> 500,000)‏ for a real world view of scale develop a way to highlight the most cited content in the article repository deduplication process, authoritative editing Framing and Scaling scale systems and distribute data across multiple geographic locations for redundancy, fail over Fedora-commons backend using Islandora Fedora-Drupal module, being developed at University of Prince Edward Island (6.x version due in April)‏ provide open access that all entities and their relationships are fully described and and all of this is described using standard vocabularies and expressed as linked data Open Access and Sharing ftw develop other forms for ingesting content from existing provider systems (OAI, Dspace, Fedora)‏ integrate semantic web technologies, RDF, etc. Investigate more cutting edge data sharing technologies currently being developed by code4lib members (Jangle, Bagit (Library of Congress))‏ provide COinS, integration with Zotero

Requirements gathering

open the site to a select test group to help define functionality

seed groups to encourage community building and social interaction

develop site based on feedback from target users

add more records (> 500,000)‏ for a real world view of scale

develop a way to highlight the most cited content in the article repository

deduplication process, authoritative editing

Framing and Scaling

scale systems and distribute data across multiple geographic locations for redundancy, fail over

Fedora-commons backend using Islandora Fedora-Drupal module, being developed at University of Prince Edward Island (6.x version due in April)‏

provide open access that all entities and their relationships are fully described and and all of this is described using standard vocabularies and expressed as linked data

Open Access and Sharing ftw

develop other forms for ingesting content from existing provider systems (OAI, Dspace, Fedora)‏

integrate semantic web technologies, RDF, etc.

Investigate more cutting edge data sharing technologies currently being developed by code4lib members (Jangle, Bagit (Library of Congress))‏

provide COinS, integration with Zotero