(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
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20)
Hitchcock, Steve; Tarrant, David
KeepIt! A JISC project to enable a diverse range of digital content presented by institutional repositories - research papers, science data, arts, teaching materials and theses - to be managed effectively today, tomorrow and beyond. KeepIt is looking at bridging the gap between the preservation community and people responsible for live repositories. The project is focused in two key areas; training about digital preservation and the relation to the repository community and the actual development and implementation of preservation tools in live repositories. In this talk we present an outline of the project, keys areas of focus and an overview of some of the tools already available which can be utilised to enable digital preservation in an EPrints repository. We also take a look at the partner repositories which show the diversity of the project in preserving more than just simple text based publications.
(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