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Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Table of Contents 1.Introduction to EOF 2.eSciDoc 3.EOF Data Model 4.Questions
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense E A S Y Electronic Archival SYstem A web application to assists self-archival of scientists in the Humanities and Arts Incoming datasets are checked by DANS Archivists Either Open Access or Restricted Access Taking in any kind of data and promising its preservation DANS is involved in many projects which produce huge amounts of data that should be archived in Easy
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Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Goals of EASY 1. to make it as easy as possible for researchers to deposit and share data 2. to make it as easy as possible for archivists to manage archived data 3. to be able to make sure that all data will be available and usable for an indefinite period of time
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Easy On Fedora Easy v2.0 using Fedora Added value by (architectural) Design –Versioning –Content Models –Object-patterns –generic discipline differences –Future-proof –Separation of concerns
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Separation of concerns
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Easy On Fedora
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Table of Contents 1.Introduction to EOF 2.eSciDoc 3.EOF Data Model 4.Questions
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense eSciDoc is a joint project of the Max-Planck- Society (MPS) and FIZ Karlsruhe 6 million € five-year grant (2004 – 2009) from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research It aims to build an integrated information, communication and publishing platform for web- based scientific work, exemplarily demonstrated for multi-disciplinary applications in the MPS Mission statement
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Repository Middleware Open source software build on top of Fedora Application independent design Fairly new (Oct. 2007) Middleware for Fedora Wraps Fedora completely Fedora++
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Service-oriented Architecture
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Services of the eSciDoc Infrastructure Object Manager Organizational Unit Handler Authentication & Authorization Search & Indexing Service Workflow Manager Statistics service Semantics Handler PID Manager Duplication detection
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Table of Contents 1.Introduction to EOF 2.eSciDoc 3.EOF Data Model 4.Questions
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Choose a Content Model? Atomistic Compound
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Some of the problem with Content Models Choosing between Atomistic or Compound: is that really my problem? The words “Content Model” may mean a full fledged Data Model as well as a low level description of a single Digital Object Building and maintaining the integrity of your own logical structures (hierarchies, networks)
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Easy On Fedora EsciDoc
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense eSciDoc object pattern
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense eSciDoc object pattern
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense eSciDoc object pattern
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense eSciDoc object pattern
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense eSciDoc object pattern
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense + = Data Model Content ModelObject Pattern
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Conclusion EOF architecture simplified for you
Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Representation of business Business semantics Logical semantics Storage of Digital objects
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Laurents Sesink 11/12 september 2008 Odense Clap or we’ll kill the dog!