Notes from Sun Pasig - Thurs afternoon session

Columbia University Libraries

• Using Fedora 3
• Two copies on disk, two copies on tape
• Capacity of 70TB
• Developed Hypatia, a tool to enable non-programmers to create input forms and workflows for metadata schemas and then catalogue them in a controlled environment
• Investigating blacklight

P2N - University of Southampton/Oxford University

• Distributed archiving using bittorrent concepts. Each object is split into parts with redundancy so that parts of the file can be lost without losing the whole file
• The idea is that, if you want to take part, you install the software and donate half of your storage to the other participants
• Proof of concept done
• Use a REST api (put, get, post, head, delete) to access the files

University of Queensland - Keith Webster

• Fez - Content Management System on top of Fedora
• Australian academics have to deposit all publications into institutional repositories. Australian Government rewrote the copyright laws to make this possible
• Using the ResearcherID service (from Thomson Reuters) to identify researchers uniquely
• ResearcherID shows citations info from Web of Science