Eliot WilczekUniversity Records ManagerDigital Collections and ArchivesTufts University
Institutional Repositories: Models & Approaches
A NELINET SeminarJanuary 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember Fedora and the Tufts University Institutional Repository
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Hardware
Content
ApplicationHardware
Content
Application
Hardware
Content
ApplicationHardware
Content
Application
Sophisticated Delivery Tools
Rich Content
Decentralized
Isolated
Vertical Systems
The SituationPerseus Digital Library
Digital Collections & Archives
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Hardware
Content
Application
Hardware
Content
Application
Hardware
Content
Application
Hardware
Content
Application
Centralized
Multiple Creators
Diverse Content
Sustainable
Sophisticated Delivery Tools
Flexible Development
The GoalInstitutional Repository
The Solution
Flexible
Extensible
Digital
Object and
Repository
Architecture
FEDORAPerseus Digital Library
Digital Collections & Archives
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
FEDORA
DSpace
FEDORA
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
FEDORA
Digital object identifier
Service Perspectivemethods for disseminating views of content
Internal key metadata necessary to manage the object
Item Perspective Set of content or metadata items
Persistent ID (PID)
Default Disseminator
System Metadata
Datastream (item)
Datastream (item)
Datastream (item)
Your Extension
Your Extension
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
FEDORA
System Metadata
PID = tufts.lib:100
Default Views
Image (tiff)
DC (xml)
Thumbnail (jpeg)
Image Views
Metadata Views
Get ProfileList Items/Get ItemList MethodsGet OAI_DC
Get ThumbnailGet MediumGet High
Get MARCGet DC
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
FEDORA
FEDORA
Ingest Tool
Ingest Tool
Search Tool
Delivery Application
Delivery Application
Where we are
How did we get there
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Current Status
Collections
Object Types
Delivery Applications
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Staff
Digital Collections and Archives
Academic Technology
University Systems Group
Institutional RepositoryMeansInstitutional Support
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Scope of Repository
What will the Repository Take
Who can Contribute
What type of Objects
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Content Creation
Descriptive Metadata
Technical Metadata
Format
Duration of Retention
Use Rights
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Service Level
Agree to what the Repository will Take
Agree to what the Repository will Deliver
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Service Level
Level A Format
Level B Format
Level C Format
Level 1 Metadata
A1 ServiceTop level searching and access
B1 Service C1 Service
Level 2 Metadata
A2 Service B2 Service C2 Service
Level 3 Metadata
A3 Service B3 Service C3 ServiceGood luck!
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Records Preservation
Evidence of Action, not just Information
Context, Content, Structure
Authenticity
Institutional RepositoriesNELINET
January 27, 2005
Helping Jumbo Remember
Eliot Wilczek Tufts University
Credits & Sources
Digital Collections and Archivesdca.tufts.edu
Academic Technologyat.tccs.tufts.edu
Tufts Digital Librarydl.tufts.edu
Visual Understanding Environmentvue.tccs.tufts.edu
Fedorawww.fedora.info
Photo of JumboJumbo in front of the museum with unidentified man,1927 tufts:central:dca:MS002:MS002.002.DO.00018 Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University
Images of Digital Libraries at Tufts adapted from David Kahle, Greg Colati, and Eliot Wilczek, “All Things to All People: Combining Resources to Build an Integrated Digital Repository,” ECURE, March 2, 2004
Images of Fedora Digital Objects adapted from David Kahle, Greg Colati, and Eliot Wilczek, “All Things to All People: Combining Resources to Build an Integrated Digital Repository,” ECURE, March 2, 2004 and various Fedora presentations at www.fedora.info.
