1. Digital Library Collections A First Look Digital Resources & Imaging Services Tim Keefe Stephen Keegan Digital Resources and Imaging Services
2. What is it? The Digital Collections, Trinity College Library Dublin Repository is an online research environment that will provide open academic access, digital asset management, and long term preservation for the libraries growing digital collections. Digital Resources and Imaging Services
3. Design Decisions Clean Uncluttered user interface “Less is More” presents many design challenges Simple, intuitive, search and navigation Minimal click to any object Zero (or as close as possible) learning curve Future friendly Abandon backwards compatibility if necessary “Book Reader” Functionality Digital Resources and Imaging Services
4. Technical Considerations Data Resilience –Long term file preservation (i.e. >100 Years) Data integrity Performance Scalability Security Interoperability Library (Millennium, Calm, Tara, RMS) External (Europeana, Tell, …) Digital Resources and Imaging Services
5. Other Considerations Limited Staffing Stephen Keegan: software design and development Una O’Shea: graphic design Compressed schedule as a result of grant obligations 8 month development cycle Uncertain hardware platform at the start of the program Digital Resources and Imaging Services
6. Technologies Fedora Commons Platform (Middleware) Open Source Supports complex, dynamic, digital object relationships Highly customizable, highly scalable, secure Many peers in the Education and Public sectors Not to be confused with Linux system software SQL Database Common Platform Open Source Verified support for very large datasets (millions of objects) Digital Resources and Imaging Services
7. Hardware 170 Terabytes of long term preservation compliant storage IBM GPFS File system Fully Mirrored Automatic tape backup for business continuity System is hosted in the University by the High Performance Computing Group
23. Where are We? What’s Next? Current Activities Testing /Bug fixes Final Hardware Integration Europeana Travel harvesting support (LIBER aggregator) Planning the Internal and External Launches What’s Next Content Management System System management Ingest tool (DRIS) Change Management and Reporting tool External System Integration (LMS, Calm, Tara, RMS) Digital Preservation Toolset Mobile device integration (iPod/iPad, Mobile phones, etc.) Digital Resources and Imaging Services
