Daedalus Service Development Stephen Gallacher Lesley Drysdale

Hardware All Daedalus services run on one server Sun Fire 280R Solaris OS 4 Gbytes of Memory 12 x 36 GB Disks

ePrints Skill Sets Perl Apache MySQL Unix / Linux

ePrints Installation Version 2.2 Latest version Straight forward installation and initial configuration (~2-3 weeks) Straight forward upgrade

ePrints Web Look and Feel –Header & footer –Stylesheet –Home page –Abstract page (example)

ePrints Document Types Journal article News article Preprint Book Book chapter Conference proceedings Conference paper Conference poster Technical report Thesis Other Each document type has its own set of metadata and its own citation format

ePrints Document Formats html pdf –multiple pdf –redirected pdf PostScript ascii rtf

New fields added Public full text Preprint available Preprint URL ISSN Faculty & department Research group Unique identifier Workflow Copyright Prior publication Reproduction rights Persistent URL OAI rights RAE submission Unit of assessment Dummy fields

Subject Hierarchy Library of Congress subject categories Faculties and departments

ePrints Workflow Submission buffer –Bulk import –Self deposit Automatic to editor Editor validates information Automatic to cataloguing department Cataloguing department assigns subject & moves record into main archive

Bulk Import of Data Perl scripts developed –Reference Manager RIS format ePrints xml format –EndNote RIS format ePrints xml format Import into submission buffer Test service useful Special characters?

ePrints Services Main ePrints service – JeLit journal of eliteracy – ERPAePRINTS – Configuration files retained during upgrades A few changes to core code

ePrints Config Skills Set Perl MySQL Unix xml html

DSpace Installation & Configuration

DSpace Skill Sets Java Tomcat / Apache PostgreSQL Unix / Linux

DSpace Installation Version NOT straight forward installation and initial configuration (~2 months) NOT straight forward upgrade!

DSpace Look & Feel Local JSP files permit limited configuration –Header & footer –Left & right navigation bars –Stylesheet Further configuration requires changes to Java code.

DSpace Document Types Animation Article Book Book chapter Dataset Dental elective Learning object Image Image, 3-D Map Musical Score Plan or blueprint Preprint Presentation Recording (musical/oral) Software Technical report PhD thesis Non-doctoral thesis Video Working paper Other

DSpace Workflow Sausage string More sophisticated by default than ePrints

PKP Harvester Installation & Configuration

PKP Harvester Skill Sets Php Apache MySQL Unix / Linux

PKP Harvester Installation Straight forward installation & initial configuration.

PKP Harvester Currently indexing approx 1400 records from 4 archives –ePrints –JeLit –ERPAePRINTS –DSpace

PKP Harvester Configuration Web look & feel –Header & footer –Fields displayed per record e.g. document type, service –Search fields e.g. search by document type –Browse views Browse by document type

OAI Field Mappings No problem with ePrints fields –Uses unqualified DC Some DSpace fields did not display correctly in harvester –DSpace uses qualified DC –PKP harvester modified to cope

PKP Harvester Configuration Skill Set php MySQL Unix

Resource List ePrints software – ePrints WIKI – DSpace (software, WIKI, mailing list) – DSpace for Dummies – PKP Harvester software –

Technical Lessons Learned 2 servers Linux instead of Solaris Double time estimates Mailing lists & WIKIs very important Test service useful