University Libraries’ Repository Services Julie Speer, Associate Dean Aaron Hunnewell, Unix Systems Administrator Departmental Computing Support Symposium October 31, 2016

Open Access “Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm Value of OA - Visibility/discoverability Research impact Knowledge dissemination

Open Repositories Open Access → Open Research Virginia Tech Libraries’ Open Repositories Digital collections VTechWorks - digital scholarship VTechData - research data Preservation Services Distributed digital preservation networks Archive-It

VTechWorks 57,000+ items Grey literature (e.g. EFARS integration ETDs Conference papers Technical Reports Presentations White papers) EFARS integration OS software: DSpace https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu

VTechData 200+ data files Content (e.g. VTArchive integration Tabular data Maps/cartographic materials Code/algorithms Written works) VTArchive integration OS software: Hydra+Fedora https://data.lib.vt.edu

Library Architecture Load balanced (f5) VMware, Dell storage, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ansible deployed Integration with VTArchive for long term storage

Scalable, Robust, Shared Management and Preservation Services Repository-Powered Approach ETDs (Theses) Books, Articles Audio visual Research Data Maps & GIS Documents Images Digital Repository Scalable, Robust, Shared Management and Preservation Services Hydra Project A single application could not effectively cope with these three use cases; however any institution would want to safeguard the outputs of all these disparate systems in a digital repository for management and preservation. HYDRA gives a Ruby-on-Rails framework where ONE BODY (the repo) can support MULTIPLE HEADS (tailored applications)

Scalable, Robust, Shared Management and Preservation Services One Body, Many Heads... ETDs (Theses) Books, Articles Audio-Visual Research Data Maps & GIS Docu-ments Images hydra Scalable, Robust, Shared Management and Preservation Services Hydra Project A single application could not effectively cope with these three use cases; however any institution would want to safeguard the outputs of all these disparate systems in a digital repository for management and preservation. HYDRA gives a Ruby-on-Rails framework where ONE BODY (the repo) can support MULTIPLE HEADS (tailored applications)

Questions Julie Speer - jspeer@vt.edu Aaron Hunnewell - zoto@vt.edu