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    PhotoCat: Implementing a Cataloging Tool for a Live Fedora Repository
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Ozakca, Muzaffer ; Dunn, Jon
    In this presentation, we will discuss the development process of a metadata cataloging application called PhotoCat (short for Photo Cataloging Application) created by the Indiana University Digital Library Program to allow catalogers and archivists to easily enter and manage item-level MODS descriptive metadata for image collections in IU's Fedora repository. Although admittedly this is not a unique use of Fedora, we faced a few interesting challenges along the way in using Fedora as a storage backend for such a tool. PhotoCat provides access to metadata records for multiple collections in a flexible way. Even though they may all use the same metadata standard (e.g. MODS), each collection may use different subsets of the available elements or use elements in slightly different ways. PhotoCat, in addition to search, browse and user management capabilities, provides a customizable interface and metadata model that define a) the Web form that accepts user input and b) instructions for populating a metadata record from that form. Functionality similar to this is found both in Fez and Muradora, two popular Fedora front-ends. In this presentation, we will talk about how our implementation is different from these systems and the unique requirements that led to our current implementation. One of the challenges we ran into was related to batch updates. Users familiar with traditional online database applications expect updates to multiple records to be reflected nearly instantaneously. Updating a single element in a batch of XML metadata datastreams in Fedora, on the other hand, requires that each object's datastream be retrieved, updated, and stored back in the repository. One of the options for achieving a perceived real time operation was limiting updates to a small fixed number of records, but this wasn't acceptable for large collections with thousands of records that needed to be updated at the same time. We also considered placing a faster middleware layer between the application and Fedora, but ended up opting for an asynchronous, behind the scenes approach for this issue. Another big challenge was generating metadata records that are syntactically and semantically correct. One of the aims of the project was that the metadata generated by the application would obey established guidelines and best practices for a given metadata standard. We considered XForms for this purpose but ended up implementing our own display/model web component, and in this presentation, we will discuss the reasons for that choice.
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    Desktop, Web & Cloud Integration Workshop
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Field, Adam ; Tarrant, David
    In this session you will have the opportunity to manage an EPrints 3.2 repository and integrate it with your own desktop machine and cloud storage. This session will cover: * An introduction to building and managing a hybrid storage solution for your repository * A demonstration of integration with Amazon S3/Cloudfront and local disk storage * Practical exercises to connect EPrints with storage service(s) and migrating between them * Hands on with Office 2007 and how to upload documents directly into EPrints * Hands on with WebDAV and connecting your desktop machine to your EPrints repository, looking at streamline the uploading of documents using standard OS desktop tools
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    An Institutional Repository for Use in Creative and Applied Arts
    (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.
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    An Introduction to EPrints 3.2
    (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.
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    Repositories and CRISes for Research Management
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Carr, Leslie A.
    Research assessment has become a major business activity for the UK academic community. A national research assessment excercise is distributing funding worth £7.5 billion to the community. A number of UK universities deployed repositories to provide evidence of research quality for the RAE 2008. The experience of these institutions shows that engagement with research assessment agendas gives a higher profile to the repository and the repository staff, and tends to make the repository more embedded in key institutional processes. In preparation for the next process, universities are engaging in proactive research management to maximise their future assessment scores; knowledge that the repository can provide about historic research outputs and their impact is being married with financial data on current research projects. CERIF is a European Union Recommendation to Member States for the purposes of exchange of R & D Information between CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) systems in order to meet the diverse needs of researchers, administrators, strategists, and policy-makers. The information that CERIF models includes People (researchers and inventors), Projects, Organizations (funding agencies, universities, hospitals), Results (publications, patents and products), Facilities (libraries, laboratories), and Equipment. CERIF therefore has the potential to handle much of the information that is likely to be relevant to the research management and research assessment processes. This presentation will describe the approach of the JISC R4R project, whose aim is to integrate library-led Institutional Repositories and admin-led Current Research Information Systems.
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    Promoting Your Research with Citeline - An Advanced Bibliographic Citation Publishing Service
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Thomas, Sean
    Faculty, their collaborators and affiliated research groups, and associated support staff are often burdened with exposing and promoting their research contributions across multiple departmental, center, laboratory, and personal websites. Maintaining current publication lists across these various exposure forums presents numerous challenges to productivity, consistency, completeness, and persistence. Moreover, the resulting web pages are often not terribly useful from an end-user perspective in that they lack the dynamic features present in many publication database systems like filtering, sorting, grouping, searching, and citation gathering services that make it easy for end-users to quickly identify content of interest. In response to these challenges, MIT Libraries has created Citeline (http://citeline.mit.edu), an online service (built from fully open source tools) to facilitate the web publishing of author bibliographies and citation collections as interactive exhibits and to facilitate the sharing of this type of information with interested researchers. The service makes it simple for authors, librarians, research assistants and others to create attractive online bibliographies simply by uploading a batch of citations in BibTeX, a standard packaging format for bibliographic citations. All standard bibliographic management softwares (e.g., Zotero, EndNote, RefWorks) and many online publisher sites and institutional repositories support export of this format for future citation. Citeline parses this consistently formated data and allows the author to customize the look-and-feel of the exhibit, as well as the extracted data available for faceted browsing (e.g., co-authors, publication type, year, institution, publisher). The citation data resides on a server and is accessed via a web service. This allows exhibit authors to update their publication list centrally through the Citeline service and have those updates be automatically applied to any departmental, center, laboratory and personal websites that present locally branded versions of the exhibit. End-users of the published exhibits have functionality available to them that isn't currently found in static HTML publication lists - namely, they can interact with the data to quickly identify content of interest. The ability to search the bibliographic metadata (including abstracts if present), filter the displayed citations using data 'facets', sorting and grouping the displayed citations as desired, selecting from multiple views of the data (e.g., displayed list or plotted on a timeline), and to export the citations (full list or filtered results only) in a number of available formats including BibTeX, presents the end-users with an attractive and robust discovery tool for bibliographic content of interest. Moreover, since BibTeX supports the inclusion of DOIs and URLs for linking to content, authors can easily provide end-users with access to their scholarly publications without the time-consuming effort to manually add this information by editing the HTML of their publication lists. The presentation will showcase Citeline, its utility as a value-added service to our research communities, its flexibility to showcase various types of repository content, and will explore some future directions currently being considered.
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    Linnean Online and SNEEP
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Davis, Richard Miles
    I will outline ongoing work by the University of London Computer Centre and the Linnean Society of London to provide online access to a large quantity of digitised material from the archives of the 18th Century scientist Carl Linnaeus (www.linnean-online.org). Technical innovations have included several additions to the core EPrints functionality. For the user, these include: - use of the FSI Viewer utility to enable the user to magnify and measure the images - embedded hyperlinks to cross-link common metadata values - user-managed bookmarks - links to an external site of transcripts and translations of the correspondences Work on Linnean Online also led to a UK JISC-funded project, SNEEP (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints). This extended the Bookmarks functionality to implement user-contributed Comments and Tagging for items in the repository.
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    FESL: Fedora Enhanced Security Layer (A Community-Based Project)
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Shin, Eddie
    While there have been many significant changes to Fedora since the release of Fedora 3.0, there has not been any new work in the area of authentication and authorization. At the same time, there have been many requests from the Fedora user community to support a wider range of authentication methods and to better enable management and enforcement of XACML authorization policies. As a result, members of the Fedora community initiated the FESL project to re-factor and improve the Fedora security architecture. The FESL team has decided to incorporate Muradora's authentication and authorization modules into Fedora. The FESL project team will re-factor the current security implementation of the core Fedora service into a more modular architecture based on Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS). In terms of making XACML easier to use, the FESL team will work towards providing a uniform "vocabulary" for typical authorization use cases. This vocabulary will make XACML policies more easy understood by end users without specific knowledge of Fedora's APIs or the XACML standard. A uniform vocabulary will also aid in the development of a more intuitive UI editor for expressing authorization requirements.
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    Library and Information Science Open Access: A Review of the Last Six Years in an International Multilingual Environment
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Subirats, Imma ; De Robbio, Antonella ; Tajoli, Zeno
    E-LIS (http://eprints.rclis.org) is an international Open Archive for Library and Information Science (LIS) established in 2003. Over 9,000 papers have been archived to date. E-LIS has grown to include a team of volunteer editors from 60 countries and support for 22 languages. It accepts published or unpublished documents in scientific or technical areas; authors can self-archive and a proxy service supports depositors. Metadata are set for each document type and are checked in accordance with editorial guidelines set by an international editorial committee. In few years, E-LIS has been established as the largest international open repository in the field of library and information science. Searching or browsing E-LIS is a kind of multilingual, multicultural experience, an example of what could be accomplished through open access archives to bring the people of the world together. Because librarians are so involved in open access advocacy, E-LIS is a key to encouraging open access for all repositories, by giving librarians the experience they need to speak with confidence when talking with researchers and open access archives, and the experience to provide the best possible assistance to self-archiving faculty. The mission of E-LIS is to remain international and world-wide: a place where people from all over the world can deposit their documents and contribute to the world-wide dissemination of knowledge: • to improve knowledge of the building and management of open archives working practically in the field within the framework of Open Digital Libraries; • not only to promote open archives in various disciplinary environments, but also to create a valid and credible model in LIS discipline for the building of a world Library and Information Science archive; • to establish a base for communal work between librarians information technology professionals, and to enhance the Open Access movement. In the presentation we would like to expose the following topics: 1. the main characteristics of the E-LIS platform; 2. the specific customizations that have been taken place during the last years; 3. how E-LIS deals with the multilinguality and differents scripts; 4. how E-LIS manages an editorial team with more than 60 people; 5. the issues during the migration from Eprints 2 to Eprints 3; 6. Interaction ways with end users; 7. Future developments and agreements with other partners.
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    DuraSpace
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-19) Kimpton, Michele ; Payette, Sandy
    The DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons are investigating the feasibility and interest of a new service, DuraSpace, to serve academic libraries, universities, and other organizations in providing perpetual access to digital content. DuraSpace can be understood as a Web-based service that makes stored digital content more durable, manageable, accessible, and easier to share. A key design feature of DuraSpace is to leave the basics of pure storage to those who do it best and to overlay storage solutions with additional functionality. The service provides baseline functionality that begins with the ability to replicate and distribute content across multiple cloud providers.