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

2. Open Access
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.”
Value of OA -
Visibility/discoverability
Research impact
Knowledge dissemination

3. 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

4. VTechWorks 57,000+ items Grey literature (e.g. EFARS integration
ETDs
Conference papers
Technical Reports
Presentations
White papers)
EFARS integration
OS software: DSpace

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

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

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. Questions
Julie Speer -
Aaron Hunnewell -