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#access2009pei – Mark Jordan & Brian Owen – COPPUL stuff
1 Oct 09
Marc Jordan
COPPUL’s LOCKSS Private Network
LOCKSS preserves by making at least six copies of things. Does a preservation check to ensure copies do not become damaged. Private networks tyipcally have mixed content, public network primarily ejournals.
How does something get into the LOCKSS network? On the public network, there’s a nomination/voting process. On the private, content is determined by whoever manages the private network. COPPUL includes collections of local interest, of greater than usual risk of being lost if not preserved by LOCKSS. Can be done on a low end server, storage about 1-4Tb. Storage is the big hurdle. Minimal staff needs to set up and run the machine.
COPPUL: OJS content, CONTENTdm, USask ETD database, local “staged” content.
To allow content to be harvested, must set up a manifest to tell LOCKSS crawler that it has permission to access. OJS supports this, not surprisingly.
One outstanding tech task: integrating LOCKSS private network into campus proxy.
Staged content: not public facing, packaged for programmatic exposure and retrieval; e.g. of CONTENTdm content, SFU Editorial Cartoons. Intended to be dbs/repository neutral and to facilitate long-term preservation. Archival units are folders containing zip files, manifest page links to file and says “yes, you can harvest”. BagIt specification identifies content/metadata in the directories. Much simpler than an XML packaging format. Relies heavily on checksums. Metadata itself will be XML.
Brian Owen
Software Lifecycles & Sustainability: a PKP and reSearcher Update
reSearcher: CUFTS, GODOT, dbWiz, Open Knowledgebase
PKP: OJS, OCS, Harvester, OMP, Lemon8-XML, PKP WAL
Projects are both open source (GPL), LAMP architecture.
Under development: Open Monograph Press (OMP); PKP Web Application Library (WAL). PKP user interface upgrade will be tried out first on OMP.
Open source not just about good code:
– community building
– sustainability strategies
Posted by pzed on October 1, 2009 at 9.35am
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