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Data curation in an existing infrastructure Stel
lenbosch University
1st African Digital Curation Conference 12 13
February 2008 Wouter Klapwijk Senior software
specialist Library and Information Service
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Overview

• Organisational objectives current status
• Example of digital curation in practice

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Overview

• Organisational objectives current status
• Example of digital curation in practice

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Organisational objectives current status

• Current digital curation practices focused on
  supporting the e-Science/e-Research support
  framework on campus
• Acknowledge the fact that digital curation is
  more than just ingesting, preserving and
  disseminating research output
• Started experimenting with replication technology
  LOCKSS
• Institutional Repository (IR) will interface with
  Research Management System (RIMS) SA RIMS
  (InfoEd) project
• Dspace ?? RIMS interaction via Staging Area needs
  attention

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Organisational objectives current status

• Library Service, Dept of Research Development and
  the Dept of Information Technology policy
  framework
• Institutional policies need to be in place
• Human Resources no dedicated programmers, no
  dedicated repository administrator, no dedicated
  systems administrator, 2 part time staff, no real
  budget

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Research Support Technology Framework
Research Lifecycle Management
Grant Application
Reporting Research Output
Submit
Concept
Negotiate Approve
Internal Review
Manage Project Contract
Ethics Protocol
IP/Ethics/ Contract Review
Do Research
Institutional Repository Lab notes Preservation
Security Publishing Research outputs
Articles Data sets ETD
(Inter)National Resources Library systems
Funding search/alerts
e-Portfolio Self-maintained for marketing
e-Profile
Expertise directories
Collaboration Environment e.g. For Centres of
Excellence, Inter-institution Web video
conferencing, messaging, document collaboration,
blogs, wikis websites
Toolbox Web survey tool (SUrvey) Citation tools
(e.g.Endnote) SAS, SPSS, Matlab, etc. Federated
Search (MetaLib)
High-speed Internet SANReN Seacom Remote
connectivity (e.g. SCN)
Hi-Perf Computer Cluster
Federated Identity Management Inter-institutional
ID management
Compiled by Ralph Pina, Stellenbosch University
IT Division
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Institutional Repository
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Implementation - technology plan

• Dspace digital repository system
• Standardize on version 1.5 for 3 years
• Need to workshop OAIS framework (in South African
  context)
• Full OAIS-compliance in Dspace Release 2
• Replication of ETDs with LOCKSS Proof of
  Concept planned for 2009
• Some work done with LOCKSS on format migration
• Multiple instances of Dspace more flexibility,
  more personalization

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Implementation virtual server setup
DSPACE 1.5 SERVER
SQL SERVER
VMWare guest etd.sun.ac.za (with tomcat and
handle server)
Metadata storage
METADATA ISO 19115 EAD Dublin Core etc.
VMWare guest research.sun.ac.za (with tomcat and
handle server)
mySQL
VMWare guest lib.sun.ac.za (with tomcat and
handle server)
VMWare server
PostgreSQL
Bitstream storage
Linux
Linux / BSD
SAN (OPTIONAL)
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Overview

• Organisational objectives current status
• Example of digital curation in practice

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Overview

• Organisational objectives current status
• Example of digital curation in practice

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A case study

• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
  (CIB)
• Prepared a set of Use Cases metadata
  requirements, access, permission, roles and
  responsibilities
• Dedicated Collection Administrator
• Datasets ? Dublin Core
• Publications ? ISO-19115 (spatial data)

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A Case Study - managed access
Permissions according to levels (extracted from
the CIB Use Cases)
No Access
Access
To be confirmed
View if it is owner
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A Case Study metadata requirements
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A Case Study metadata requirements

• Link to
• Interface design
• Data Dictionary
• Dspace Administrator view

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Thank you

• wklap_at_sun.ac.za
• 27 21 808-4378