A View of Regional Digitization Centers
As a part of work for an OhioLINK strategic task force, I have been exploring the creation and operation of regional/collaborative/shared digitization center...
DRC
Two Personal Repository Services
This year has seen the release of two personal repository services: http://PublicationsList.org/ and the U.K. Depot. These two services have an admittedly ...
Planning a digital preservation assessment using TRAC:CC and DRAMBORA
OhioLINK is engaged in building a "trusted digital repository" on behalf of its membership. As we build it, we want to have an understanding of what "truste...
Disseminators As the Core of an Object Repository
I’ve been working to get JBoss Seam tied into Fedora, and along the way thought it would be wise to stop and document a core concept of this integration: the...
Building an Institutional Repository Interface Using EJB3 and JBoss Seam
This tour is designed to show the overall architecture of a FEDORA digital object repository application within the JBoss Seam framework while at the same ti...
Looking Forward to Version 2.2 of FEDORA
Sandy Payette, Co-Director of the Fedora Project and Researcher in the Cornell Information Science department, announced a tentative date for the release 2....
Managing a Gentoo Linux Server Configuration with Subversion, GLCU, and Trac
Keeping track of configuration changes to servers is a tough job made tougher when some of the sysadmins work from home. Questions of who did what when and w...
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to build a consortial repository using FEDORA
On Friday, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries announced the creation of a consortium-wide digital repository project similar to that of the Ohio Dig...
Picking a Java Web Application Framework
We're beginning a new phase of our digital library development at OhioLINK and an oversimplification of one of the consequences of this new phase is that we ...
Why FEDORA? Answers to the FEDORA Users Interview Survey
The Fedora Outreach and Communications team is conducting a survey of the high-level sense of passion and commitment inherent in the Fedora community. I've ...
Best Practice Proposal for a DESCRIPTION Datastream
OhioLINK is deep in the process of migrating content from our old Bulldog/Documentum-based system to, well, something else, and we've been talking about the ...
XTF and FEDORA — Comments from the Community
Some questions and observations that have come in through mechanisms other than blog comments on the analysis of the XTF/FEDORA integration. I've reproduced...
Analysis of CDL’s XTF textIndexer to Replace the Local Files with FEDORA Objects
This is a continuation of the investigation about integrating the California Digital Library's XTF software into the FEDORA digital object repository that st...
CDL’s XTF as a Front End to Fedora
We're experimenting pretty heavily now with the California Digital Library's XTF framework as a front-end to a FEDORA object repository. Initial efforts loo...
Representing Collections In FEDORA
One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...
Fedora Advanced Applications Panel at JCDL2006
I am excited almost beyond description to be sharing a panel with Sandy Payette (Cornell University, USA), Andrew Treloar (Monash University, Australia), Mat...
Thanks to Summer of Code applicants
Although we were a little concerned right about this time last week, you came through with a wonderful suite of applications with OhioLINK as the mentoring o...
Fedora Disseminators to Enable Accessible Repository Content
Calling all accessibility technology experts! What follows is a line of thinking about using characteristics of the FEDORA digital object repository to enab...
Processing Raw Fedora Objects
Michael J. Giarlo wrote a very nice summary of my FEDORA trilogy (only three parts so far -- I think there are more good things to say about FEDORA; and besi...
Thinking about Our Fedora Disseminators
Another reason to consider the FEDORA digital object repository system, if having the ability to put all of your content in one place and reducing the comple...
Fedora plus Sakai: A view from 30,000 feet
Please note: the living, editable version of this document is now on Sakai's Confluence in the "Resources" project area. Edited by Peter Murray, OhioLINK. ...
OhioLINK’s Google Summer of Code ideas
Student applications for the Google Summer of Code program are being accepted starting on May 1st. In preparation for that date, OhioLINK has finished up it...
OhioLINK Selects the Affero License for DRC Development
Selecting an open source license was really much harder than I thought it would be. The OhioLINK executive director and I talked for about 90 minutes over t...
Fedora plus Sakai — not quite that easy
In previous post I described to how easy it would be for Fedora to be integrated into Sakai and offered as reference the Entity.java interface as evidence. ...
Fedora plus Sakai — a marriage made in heaven?
Note -- there was a follow-up to this post. What happens when you mix two Mellon-funded projects? Perhaps a nice bit of what they call synergy. The thinkin...
Why Fedora? Because You Don’t Need Fedora
I’m often asked “Why is OhioLINK using FEDORA?” (Just to eliminate any confusion at the start, I’m referring to the FEDORA Digital Object Repository, a proje...
Resources for Describing Visual Materials
A recent thread on describing visual materials from the IMAGELIB mailing list sparked the descovery of these resources. First was this bibliography of thesa...
Berkeley’s “bSpace Images” project
Word of this Fedora-based image collection tool comes from the Sakai Library & Repositiories discussion group [Sakai Collab account required]. Project N...
To BPEL or not to BPEL, quite a good question
OhioLINK is actively looking at BPEL as an option for workflow orchestration for the DRC project. I was asked recently about that choice, especially in ligh...
Alternate (Open) Peer Review Model
At some point the DRC will need a generalized peer review system. Although I'm not sure we will use OAI-PMH to shepherd the results around various sys...
On the Need for a General Purpose Digital Object Repository
Digital objects -- we've all got 'em. Billions and billions of them. And we put them in individual content silos, stratified along such unhelpful lines as ...
Germany is at it, too
This just in -- at least to my INBOX -- Germany is working on a unified repository as well. Called the eSciDoc project, it closely mirrors what the DRC is g...
Repositories Visualized
On 12/14/05 10:26 AM, Richard Green wrote on the sakai-library mailing list: The RepoMman projectat the University of Hull, UK, is looking into the area of ...