What is

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• What is
• Institutional Repository for Rutgers University
• Preservation and access strategy for Rutgers
  digital information products

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Why Build a Digital Repository?

• University information products are published by
  the creators (faculty and administration)
• Digital publication exposes content to potential
  misuse or modification. The need to safeguard
  preserve resources is high
• Granting agencies increasingly require a
  sustainable cyberinfrastructure to provide access
  to project results

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• Mission
• Support RULs vision and mission
• Support the mission of the university for
• -- Research
• -- Education
• -- Administration

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• University Research Support
• Support research information products
• -- Multimedia research outputs (data sets,
  images, video and audio) Lab notes Grant
  reports Pre-publication papers and presentations

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• University Research Support
• Provide a sustainable platform for faculty
  research projects
• -- Underlying technology for web site, data,
  search engine, applications
• -- Archiving documenting through snapshots,
  archival storage, application migration

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• How Does work?
• Fedora repository architecture
• -- Flexible, Extensible Digital Object
  Repository Architecture
• -- Developed by Cornell University and University
  of Virginia via a Mellon Foundation Grant.
• http//www.fedora.info/

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• FEDORA is
• A modular architecture that provides preservation
  and access services for digital objects.
• Metadata to support management and migration of
  digital objects
• Unique, persistent identifiers for locating
  resources
• Digital signatures and audit trails for changes
  to resources

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D-Rkive includes a flexible, extensible data
model/architecture to support current and future
research needs
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• Durably links metadata and resources
• Integrates multiple versions of resources
• Links analog source information with digital
  surrogates

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Scenario of Use
Civil Engineering department receives a grant to
build an earthquake simulation tool to enable
department to model effect of earthquakes on
buildings Department builds a portal, simulation
tool, and database of simulation experiment
results Database, simulation tool and portal are
archived within d-Rkive. Information products
are discoverable and accessible at both sites.
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Application versioning Source form and
Non-proprietary representation of database
Periodic snapshots for history audit trail Site
hierarchy and associated files
Portal
Website
Search Engine
Images
Text
Database
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• Status and Next Steps
• Grant received to build repository architecture
  for statewide cultural heritage information
  portal New Jersey Digital Highway 2003-2006
• Version 1.0 developed and implemented for NJDH
  www.njdigitalhighway.org

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• will debut in 2006 with
• digital theses and dissertations (collaboration
  with GSNB) Debut May 2006
• Selected faculty research test beds to develop
  D-Rkive tools and services
• Core services for faculty use in fall 2006

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• Issues
• Funding / Staffing
• Business model
• -- Core vs. enhanced services

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• The Potential
• Leveraging library information management
  strengths and economies of scale to increase RD
  at RU
• Partnering with other research universities to
  develop a collaborative New Jersey research
  repository

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The Digital Playground

• A Flexible framework of core requirements
  provides interoperability--shared information use
  and understanding

• Within that framework, experimentation,
  customization, inniovation is supported

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http//www2.scc.rutgers.edu/rkive/