(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20)
Brody, Tim
The Kultur project was a 2 year JISC funded project to investigate the requirements for a visual arts research repository. Kultur used the EPrints software to build a basic repository that was then extended to provide better support for multimedia (images, movies and sound) and a modified deposit workflow. In this talk I will explain the features that were built and how they have improved the user interface for accessing complex media.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20)
Carr, Leslie A.; Brody, Tim
In this session we will be introducing EPrints 3.2 and some of the new features. These include:
* Storage Controller - allows hybrid solutions to be built using both local and cloud level storage.
* FTP and WebDAV Support - new ways to connect your desktop to the repository.
* SWORD 2 (v1.3) Support - allowing direct deposit of documents from Microsoft Office 2007.
* Enhancements to repository web site management - edit repository pages directly from web page editors such as dreamweaver.
* ... and others from the list of proposed features for EPrints 3.2.
In sessions 5 and 6 there will be opportunity for hands on experience.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-19)
Brody, Tim; Carr, Leslie A.; Tarrant, David
Repositories collect and manage data holdings using a storage device. Mainly this has been a local file system, but recently attempts have been made at using open storage products and cloud storage solutions, such as Sun's Honeycomb and Amazon S3 respectively. Each of these solutions has their own pros and cons but There are advantages in adopting a hybrid model for repository storage, combining the relative strengths of each one in a policy-determined model. In this paper we present an implementation of a repository storage layer which can dynamically handle and manage a hybrid storage system