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Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Table of Contents 1.Introduction to EOF 2.eSciDoc 3.EOF Data Model 4.Questions

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 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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Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 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

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 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

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Separation of concerns

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Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Table of Contents 1.Introduction to EOF 2.eSciDoc 3.EOF Data Model 4.Questions

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 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

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Repository Middleware Open source software build on top of Fedora Application independent design Fairly new (Oct. 2007) Middleware for Fedora Wraps Fedora completely Fedora++

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Service-oriented Architecture

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 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

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Table of Contents 1.Introduction to EOF 2.eSciDoc 3.EOF Data Model 4.Questions

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Choose a Content Model? Atomistic Compound

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 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)

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Easy On Fedora EsciDoc

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 eSciDoc object pattern

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 eSciDoc object pattern

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 eSciDoc object pattern

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 eSciDoc object pattern

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 eSciDoc object pattern

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories = Data Model Content ModelObject Pattern

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Conclusion EOF architecture simplified for you

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Representation of business Business semantics Logical semantics Storage of Digital objects

Lodewijk Bogaards Software Architect and project leader Easy On Fedora Open Repositories 2008 Questions? Fore more information on eSciDoc see:

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