Islandora Webinar: Highlighting CUHK Chinese Digital CollectionsErin Tripp
The webinar will feature a presentation and Q&A session with Jeff Liu, Digital Services Librarian and Louisa Lam, Head, Research Support and Digital Initiatives at the CUHK Library.
The CUHK Library has curated a collection of over five million digital objects in the past 20 years. It features Chinese literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion. Until recently, the collection was stored in a broad range of different systems, complicating the discovery of these precious digital assets.
In 2015, librarians at CUHK embarked on a project to find a permanent, single platform for digital content. Objectives of the project included enhanced discoverability, multi-language support (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) and custom development capability to modify display and viewing features that would showcase Chinese literature in its true form.
Islandora met all the functional requirements and more, including support for digital humanities projects and access to a user-driven open source software community.
The CUHK library was also attracted to the vendor services and support available through discoverygarden. We provided advice, support and custom development assistance; contributing to the launch of the digital repository every step of the way.
The repository (http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk) officially launched in February 2016, making the CUHK Library digital initiatives pioneers in Hong Kong.
A presentation on the ways in which digital preservation capability is being embedded within Hydra, given at the 2016 Spring meeting of the international Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group
Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is Powerpoint.
Slides from Richard Green, Chris Arwe (Hull University, Hydra Project) David Wilcox (Fedora) Anders Conrad Sparre (Royal Library of Denmark) Gregory Markus (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision/ EuropeanaTech) about European efforts towards building a better FLOSS Community, the benefits of contributing to Open Source projects and the successes of the Hydra Project and Fedora. Slides are from Open Repositories 2016 Conference held at Trinity College, Dublin.
Islandora Webinar: Highlighting CUHK Chinese Digital CollectionsErin Tripp
The webinar will feature a presentation and Q&A session with Jeff Liu, Digital Services Librarian and Louisa Lam, Head, Research Support and Digital Initiatives at the CUHK Library.
The CUHK Library has curated a collection of over five million digital objects in the past 20 years. It features Chinese literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion. Until recently, the collection was stored in a broad range of different systems, complicating the discovery of these precious digital assets.
In 2015, librarians at CUHK embarked on a project to find a permanent, single platform for digital content. Objectives of the project included enhanced discoverability, multi-language support (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) and custom development capability to modify display and viewing features that would showcase Chinese literature in its true form.
Islandora met all the functional requirements and more, including support for digital humanities projects and access to a user-driven open source software community.
The CUHK library was also attracted to the vendor services and support available through discoverygarden. We provided advice, support and custom development assistance; contributing to the launch of the digital repository every step of the way.
The repository (http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk) officially launched in February 2016, making the CUHK Library digital initiatives pioneers in Hong Kong.
A presentation on the ways in which digital preservation capability is being embedded within Hydra, given at the 2016 Spring meeting of the international Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group
Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is Powerpoint.
Slides from Richard Green, Chris Arwe (Hull University, Hydra Project) David Wilcox (Fedora) Anders Conrad Sparre (Royal Library of Denmark) Gregory Markus (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision/ EuropeanaTech) about European efforts towards building a better FLOSS Community, the benefits of contributing to Open Source projects and the successes of the Hydra Project and Fedora. Slides are from Open Repositories 2016 Conference held at Trinity College, Dublin.
The Avalon Media System: Open Source Audio and Video Access for Libraries and...Avalon Media System
Presented at the session OSDPA (Open Source Digital Preservation and Access): One Body, Many Heads: Preservation and Access From Project Hydra on October 9, 2014 at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference (October 8-11, 2014) by Jon Dunn of Indiana University
View the recording of Jon's presentation: http://youtu.be/wAtc-nZeFNk?t=18m57s
3-27-12 Preservation & Archiving Highlights from ADR - Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
“Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning”
Curated by Liz Bishoff
Webinar 3: Preservation & Archiving Highlights from the Alliance Digital Repository
Presented by Robin Dean & George Machovec, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
A presentation on select digital library initiatives in India by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
Site up an open access-ICAR
Institutional Repository-Hardware, Software, Policies and Personnel.
ICAR Initiatives
Under NATP Project – Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System INARIS (Rai et. Al., 2007). A Central Data warehouse (CWD) of agricultural resources was established at IASRI
This project having collaborations with 13 other organizations of ICAR.
In this view 13 different data marts were designed.
This Project was available under this link (http://agdw.iasri.res.in)
My outlook Country should have agri-search engine
Agri-Search Engine should be developed in country to aggregate information from the internet and provide it to farmers in meaningful manner through using ICT tools.
Agri-Search Engine be coordinated with Govt. of India’s Agricultural Websites to monitor each website per day.
A presentation given at the EuroSakai 2011 conference in Amsterdam on 27th September 2011. It covers the work of the CLIF project to investigate the management of the digital lifecycle across systems, using the integration of the Sakai collaboration and learning environment with the Fedora digital repository system as an exemplar.
The Avalon Media System: Open Source Audio and Video Access for Libraries and...Avalon Media System
Presented at the session OSDPA (Open Source Digital Preservation and Access): One Body, Many Heads: Preservation and Access From Project Hydra on October 9, 2014 at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference (October 8-11, 2014) by Jon Dunn of Indiana University
View the recording of Jon's presentation: http://youtu.be/wAtc-nZeFNk?t=18m57s
3-27-12 Preservation & Archiving Highlights from ADR - Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
“Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning”
Curated by Liz Bishoff
Webinar 3: Preservation & Archiving Highlights from the Alliance Digital Repository
Presented by Robin Dean & George Machovec, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
A presentation on select digital library initiatives in India by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
Site up an open access-ICAR
Institutional Repository-Hardware, Software, Policies and Personnel.
ICAR Initiatives
Under NATP Project – Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System INARIS (Rai et. Al., 2007). A Central Data warehouse (CWD) of agricultural resources was established at IASRI
This project having collaborations with 13 other organizations of ICAR.
In this view 13 different data marts were designed.
This Project was available under this link (http://agdw.iasri.res.in)
My outlook Country should have agri-search engine
Agri-Search Engine should be developed in country to aggregate information from the internet and provide it to farmers in meaningful manner through using ICT tools.
Agri-Search Engine be coordinated with Govt. of India’s Agricultural Websites to monitor each website per day.
A presentation given at the EuroSakai 2011 conference in Amsterdam on 27th September 2011. It covers the work of the CLIF project to investigate the management of the digital lifecycle across systems, using the integration of the Sakai collaboration and learning environment with the Fedora digital repository system as an exemplar.
Slides from the Getting to the Repository of the Future Workshop held on Wednesday 31st July 2013 at Repository Fringe 2013. The workshop was led by Chris Awre, University of Hull, and Balviar Notay, JISC.
An overview of the Hydra digital repository framework and the community that builds and maintains it. Presented at Open Repositories 2013 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Hydra and Blacklight are both successful, vibrant open source projects among research libraries and higher education. They have achieved a critical mass of adopters and rich set of functions, as much because of the methodology and community as their strong technical capabilities. This presentation gives an overview of both projects, and describes the "Hydra-Blacklight" Way, and how this "way" is pulling institutions into the future of digital libraries.
Developing and Deploying Open Source in the Library: Hydra, Blacklight, and B...Julie Meloni
In these trying financial times, libraries and cultural heritage institutions in general face difficult resource allocation decisions: for example, do you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on proprietary software or do you hire a few good software developers and library professionals who can lead the design of applications and platforms specific to your needs? For some, leveraging open source software and the communities that form around it helps solve some of these problems.
The University of Virginia Library is a key partner in the collaborative and open source project known as "Hydra”; the goal of the Hydra Project is to create a comprehensive set of open source repository workflow tools that allow librarians and scholars to manage describe, deliver, reuse and preserve digital information. U.Va.’s committment to the project includes the definition of metadata standards, the creation of search and discovery interfaces, and the development and implementation of multiple Hydra “heads” such as the interface and workflow in use for the U.Va. institutional repository. U.Va is also a key contributor to the Blacklight project; Blacklight is an open source discovery interface or "next-generation catalog" — and can be seen powering the newly updated U.Va. OPAC, Virgo.
This talk will provide a brief overview of both the Hydra and Blacklight projects and the tools under development, will describe some of the processes and challenges for development teams working within a library setting, and show some of the ways that open source software works (and where it gets tricky) within this setting.
I used these slides as part of a "Digital Dialogues" presentation at University of Maryland's Institute for Technology in the Humanities: "Community, Cohesion, and Commitment: Developing and Deploying Open Source Tools in the UVa Online Library Environment"...more info at http://bit.ly/ffTmFH
Latest developments in Hydra-land - Chris Awre, University of HullRepository Fringe
Latest developments in Hydra-land - Chris Awre, University of Hull. This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2014, which took place from 30th to 31st July 2014, in Edinburgh.
Jon W. Dunn presented this overview of the Avalon Media System at the start of the "Avalon Media System: Implementation and Community" session at the 2014 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum on October 28, 2014.
See session description and community notes: http://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/program/60z/
Working together – Using social media tools / enterprise tools (Sharepoint, B...Rindra Ramli
This paper describes the tools implemented by KAUST library to enhance collaboration among library staff. Highlights the features / functionalities of the implemented tools and their related success / constraints in achieving the desired targets.
A presentation to the 14th Open Repositories conference in Hamburg, held in June 2019. It covers work to develop a solution for creating a digital archive for the City of Culture digital archive through brining together Archivematica and the Hyrax digital repository solution.
Digital Academic Library of the North - Northern Collaboration presentationChris Awre
A presentation given at the Northern Collaboration conference on Friday 13th September at the University of Huddersfield. The presentation proposes the vision of a shared repository underpinning a digital library of institutional assets to enable repository collection scalability and promote public awareness of research and teaching within northern universities.
1. Hydra, Fedora and
learning objects at
University of Hull
Chris Awre
CETIS Learning Object Repositories event, 5th August 2011
2. An exploration in three parts
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• Learning object activity at Hull, sub-part 1 (what we have done)
• Fedora
• Hydra
• Learning object activity at Hull, sub-part 2 (what we are hoping to
do)
4. Learning object activity at Hull
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• Periodic interest in how a local repository might serve teaching
needs through management of learning objects
– But nothing substantial
– We focused on lower hanging fruit, meeting immediate
University needs
• UK Physical Sciences Centre OER Phase 1 project
– Skills for Scientists, 2009-10
– All materials placed in JORUM AND in local repository as back-
up archive
• https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/browse.action?parentId=hull%3A1
143&type=1
• Now also adding the Centre’s website resources (due to closure)
5. Related activity
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• Other materials in the repository are used for teaching
– Datasets
• Domesday Book data
• Historical Marine Animal Populations data
– Digitised library materials
• Books (either out of copyright or with copyright permission)
• Poetry
– Audio/video recordings (Creative writing)
• CLA digitised materials NOT in the repository at this point
– We’d like to include them, but granular security not quite good
enough yet
7. Local need
Scalable solution (not one that has upper limit)
Digital content is only going to grow
Standards-based (open standards where possible)
To provide a future-proof exit strategy
Content agnosticism
We don’t know what types of content may come along
Content semantics
Recording the relationships between different pieces of
content supports future use and preservation
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8. Fedora functionality
• Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
– Powerful digital object model
– Extensible metadata management
– Expressive inter-, and intra-, object relationships
– Web service integration (SOAP and REST)
– Version management
– Configurable security architecture
– OAI-PMH conformance
– Preservation capable
– User interface flexibility
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9. Fedora Digital Object Model
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10. Fedora development
• Development has been overseen by DuraSpace since July ‘09
– Parent non-profit body for Fedora, DSpace, plus Mulgara, Akubra and
DuraCloud
• Fedora 3.5 out soon, and clear roadmap for future development outlined
• Organisation
– Core development team within DuraSpace
– Community-based committers drive software development in conjunction with
community input
• Committers from US, Canada, UK, Denmark, Germany, Australia
– Very active, and responsive, discussion lists
• Fedora-users/Fedora-developers
• Fedora UK&I
– Formed 2006, meets twice-ish a year
• Next meeting, 15th September, University of Manchester
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11. Areas of current activity
Committee papers
Theses
Dissertations
Exam papers
Student handbooks
E-prints/journal articles
Audio recordings
Open educational resources
Skull scan images
Datasets
University policies, procedures and regulations
Digitised content
LTSU documents
HR documentation
Lectures
Images
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13. Why Hydra?
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• Our adopted interface to Fedora, Muradora, ceased development
– Funding withdrawn
– No community to pick it up (although some are persisting)
• Muradora was also essentially making Fedora act like a Dublin Core
registry with files attached
• We wished to take fuller advantage of the richness of Fedora’s model
• We needed a development that had community as an integral part of it
for sustainability
– Acknowledging we could not go alone
• Then we presented on the REMAP project at OR2008…
14. REMAP/RepoMMan
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• JISC-funded projects
• Explored how a repository could be incorporated in earlier parts
of the digital content lifecycle, as a working tool, not just an
endpoint
• Also examined how a repository could be proactive in its own
management
– Metadata generation
– Hooks for messaging and automation of actions
• Ultimately interested in how a Fedora repository could be made
more usable
15. Hydra
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• A collaborative project between:
– University of Hull
– University of Virginia
– Stanford University
– Fedora Commons/DuraSpace
– MediaShelf LLC
• Unfunded (in itself)
– Activity based on identification of a common need
• Aim to work towards a reusable framework for multipurpose,
multifunction, multi-institutional repository-enabled solutions
• Timeframe - 2008-11 (but now extended indefinitely)
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16. Multipurpose, multi-institutional approach
• A repository should be an enabler, not a constraint
– Repositories have been put forward as potential solutions for
a variety of use cases
– Hydra recognises that repositories can be used in the
management of digital content at different stages in the
lifecycle of that content
– It is therefore useful to consider how to enable multiple
interactions with a repository for different purposes
• “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go
together” (African proverb)
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17. Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration…
• Hydra is about working together in two ways
– It has started as a collaboration between like-minded partners
who have identified a shared set of issues and needs around
the development of repositories
– It recognises that the initial partners can lay out the
groundwork, but that others should be able to benefit from
this and build on it.
• Hydra is therefore seeking to enable
– A community of developers and adopters extending and
enhancing the core
– Collaboratively built “solution bundles” that can be adapted
and modified to suit local needs – Hydra heads!
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18. Four Key Capabilities
1. Support for any kind of record or metadata
2. Object-specific behaviors
– Books, Images, Music, Video, Manuscripts, Finding
Aids,Learning objects, etc.
3. Tailored views for domain or discipline-specific materials
4. Easy to augment & over-ride with local modifications
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19. Hydra partnerships
• From the beginning key aims have been and are:
– to enable others to join the partnership as and when they wished (MediaShelf
LLC have since joined, Northwestern, and Notre Dame waiting in the wings)
– to establish a framework for sustaining a Hydra community as much as any
technical outputs that emerge
• Establishing a semi-legal basis for contribution and partnership
• The Hydra project has developed a lot of guidelines around the
organisation and structure of content which can then be implemented
using its technology stack – Hydra compliant objects
– Exploiting the Fedora digital object model
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Hydra+objects%2C+content+mo
dels+%28cModels%29+and+disseminators
• Although the guidelines could also be implemented using other
technologies
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20. The technical bit…
CRUD approach supports workflows over the repository
across the lifecycle of the content
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21. Why these technologies?
• Fedora
– All Hydra partners are Fedora users
• Solr
– Very powerful indexing tool, as used by…
• Blacklight
– Prior development at Virginia (and now Stanford/JHU) for OPAC
– Adaptable to repository content
• Ruby
– Agile development / excellent MVC / good testing tools
• Ruby gems
– ActiveFedora, Opinionated Metadata, Solrizer (MediaShelf
contributions)
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22. 2011/12 Hydra in Hull
• Work is ongoing to finish Hydra’s Hull adaptation in time for the new
academic year
– eDocs, the current repository UI will be turned off over the summer
• This will be one of a number of production reference implementations
within the Hydra community worldwide
• Hydra in Hull provides an end-user UI with graded levels of access +
create and manage functionality for particular users and groups
• Repository content can come in via other routes (e.g., the Research
Information System, SharePoint, etc.)
– Common construction, so Hydra understands it all (Hydra-compliant)
– All incoming material goes through a QA stage
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24. How can we apply Hydra/Fedora to learning objects?
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• The Fedora digital object model allows us to develop a way of
structuring and describing learning objects within a repository
– Hydra provides a way of delivering this through CRUD
interfaces
• Two possible approaches
– A learning objects Hydra head!
• A specific set of workflows around learning objects, using the Hydra
code as the starting point and toolkit
– Incorporation of learning objects in an institutional repository
Hydra head
• More general applicability for wide range of objects
25. Next steps at Hull
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• We are taking, initially, the IR head approach, to further develop
the broad content approach to the provision of a repository for
the University of Hull
– Basing this on MODS metadata
• But potential to alter this in the future, based on Hydra flexibility
– Infrastructure is not constraining
• OER pilots scheduled for 2012
– Building on Skills for Scientists and local RLO project
– OER Phase 3 funding?
– Link research outputs to teaching (University strategic plan)
– Link repository to VLE (based on Sakai) – CLIF project
26. Contacts and links
Project Director: Chris Awre (c.awre@hull.ac.uk)
Project Manager: Richard Green (r.green@hull.ac.uk)
Blog: http://hydrangeainhull.wordpress.com
Temporary test site: http://hydra-test.hull.ac.uk
Watch this space: http://hydra.hull.ac.uk (currently the
original proof-of-concept site but will become the
production site)
(Current repository: http://edocs.hull.ac.uk)
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27. Where to learn more…
Web: http://projecthydra.org
Wiki: http://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra
List: hydra-tech@googlegroups.com
Code: http://github.com/projecthydra/
JIRA: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/HYDRA
Meet: Fedora UK&I meeting, Manchester, 15th September
Hydra Camp, Minneapolis, October 2011
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