Tools for Dissemination of Data and Metadata

Janez Štebe, ADP

SERSCIDA WP4 – WORKSHOP Ljubljana

September 2013

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• Boundary conditions?• Staff number, skills• Financial resources• Time frame• Legacy tools, systems

• Which goals you wish to achieve?• Mission• Formal requirements (national policy,

integration with others)• Users‘ demand, community services

Decision about choosing the tool

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Other criteria in decission

making

Custom-built system

Clearl functional

specification!

Existing tool

Open source

Not open

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An arbitrary case for discussion: UCLA http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/11049/3/Iverson_UCLA_NADDI2013.pdf

Boundary conditons

• UCLA Social Science Data Archive

• One archivist • One programmer

analyst • Student interns • Manage

survey/quantitative data

Requirements

•Serve all UCLA quantitative researchers

•Provide reference, cataloging/metadata

•Long term archiving •Support in data rescue •Data Management •Security •Easier to find for data •Easier for faculty to document data

•More visibility for data (web-based)

•Support a disaster plan •Document the entire data lifecycle

•Operate according to TRAC processes and policies

Custom-built system

•but limited IT resources

•Limited capability

Universal

repository

systems

•Fedora Islandora Dryad DuraSpace Hydra(ngea)…

•Would have needed a lot of IT resources

•Deployment can difficult

•Cost was way over what we could afford

•Technology really didn’t fit with what we wanted to do

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What are the remaining options available?Pros et cons?

• iRODS <Source: https://www.irods.org/pubs/iRODS_Overview_0903.pdf >

• iRODS Use Case: Social Science: ODUM Institute social science data

• Replicate XML-based data collection into iRODS Data Grid (…)

• The Dataverse Network <Source: http://thedata.org/book/handouts >

• View over collections: http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dataverses/Federated/faces/site/BrowseDataversesPage.xhtml?initialSort=Released

• NADA <Source: http://ihsn.org/home/software/nada>

• ADP program: http://adp.ihsn.org/

• Colectica http://www.colectica.com/features• Statistics Denmark mission report of the project concerning

Metadata and Classification System Development for the BiH: http://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/projects/Bosnia-Herzegovina/32_Metadata_and_classification_system.aspx

• Nesstar http://www.nesstar.com/about/• Nesstar katalog Arhiva družboslovnih podatkov: http://nesstar2.adp.fdv.uni-lj.si

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Solution?

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The UCLA solution/ Lesson learned

• One-size fits all solutions don’t; interoperability does.

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More cross-walks mentioned:

• „A paper titled "Integrating Colectica, Nesstar, and DDI-Lifecycle" will be presented in collaboration with Nesstar.

• This enables publishing data on the web using Nesstar

while managing the DDI-Lifecycle metadata in Colectica. „ http://www.prweb.com/releases/IASSIST/Data/prweb10688814.htm

• DDI + API: building services on top of your existing DDI holdings

• A Nesstar Server is an example of a web-based container that can store and make available DDI metadata to consuming applications

• Harvester taking snapshots for persistent archiving in DataVerse (beta)

http://www.rdl.sfu.ca/IASSIST/index.php/Program/d1

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