Halti 2 – New Data Management System for FinELib Teemu Mattila

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 2 Current Data Management in FinELib Existing system, Halti, opened in 2000 Halti was designed for managing –IP-numbers and payment shares of the consortium members –Contact information of the members and publishers –Usable via web browser Quite a few tasks are done more or less manually (registration to the resources, usage statistics, key figures..)

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 3 What Do We Want? Grant access to the data to the member organizations –Organizations could verify their subscriptions, payment shares etc. from the system Better means for manipulating and managing data –Summary reports, exporting data from the database, more accurate information, automated processes Less manual work

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 4 Why Entirely New System? Halti is acceptable system but has its flaws –Halti does not preserve past data –Remote use is not possible –Technically very inflexible and not suited for some tasks  Easier to build from the scratch than to repair

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 5 Some Key Differences Database & Application Server Database Server Application Server IP authentication Authentication User

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 6 Detailed Features of Halti 2 Exporting data –Spreadsheets, (preformatted) web pages Summary reports –Yearly usage, payment and key figures automatically for each organization and sector as well as for entire consortium –Possibility to convert all currencies to e.g. euros IP number reports –Somewhat similar to Halti 1

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 7 Detailed Features of Halti 2 Registration to the resources –Better checks for valid data and confirmations Remote use –Authentication based to the IP address or SSL- encrypted username/password User interface –At least UI for customers must be easy to use Maintaining –Documentation and modular structure to help updating and renewing

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 8 Schedule Database and test data by the end of June User interface (application) in pieces –Some easy parts, such as contact information, during July –Entire application ready for testing before the end of August (preferably at the 20 th of August) –“Possible” bug demolishing and actual data insertion during September –Production usage at the end of September Possible glitches might delay the launch

Halti 2 - Nordic Meeting, Helsinki 9 Technical Jargon Database system: Oracle 9i Web server:Dell PowerEdge 2650 Operating system:Red Hat Linux Ent. 3.0 HTTP server: Apache 2 Application programming: PHP 4