An Introduction to the Pennsylvania Digital Library

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An Introduction to the Pennsylvania Digital
Library

• Michael BolamMetadata Librarianmrbst20_at_pitt.edu
• University Library SystemUniversity of Pittsburgh

Brian GreggLead Unix Systems Analystbdgregg_at_pitt
.edu University Library SystemUniversity of
Pittsburgh
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Overview

• The Pennsylvania Digital Library
• OAI and OAI-PMH
• The PKP Metadata Harvester
• Hardware/Software
• Participation
• Using the Pennsylvania Digital Library

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The PennsylvaniaDigital Library

• The Pennsylvania Digital Library (PADL) is a
  state-wide metadata repository for digital
  resources created by Pennsylvania libraries,
  museums, educational institutions, and other
  cultural heritage organizations.
• http//padl.pitt.edu

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OAI-PMH

• Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata
  Harvesting
• http//www.openarchives.org
• Dublin Core Metadata

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PKP Harvester

• The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Open Archives
  Harvester
• Two major components
• Harvester
• Web interface 

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Harvesting

• 2 modes of operation
• Full Harvest - Once per quarter
• Incremental Harvest - Once a week
• Data can be refreshed by request

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Your Archive Server
PA Digital Library Server
Document
Metadata Title Author Subject URN
Dspace Fedora ePrints ContentDM
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Pennsylvania Digital Library Server
Participating Data Providers
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Software

• Sun Solaris 10
• PKP Open Harvester
• PHP
• Smarty
• Apache
• MySQL

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Software Components
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Hardware

• Sun T2000 Server

Record setting performance and the highest
levels of eco-efficiency coupled with no-cost,
industry leading virtualization and large memory
footprint make the Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000
server ideal for the consolidation of existing
x86/RISC web, application and database servers,
as well as the ideal foundation for building out
of a Web 2.0 infrastructure.
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ULS Server Room
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Participation

• Register as a Data Provider
• Who can register?
• Access Digital Repository users are harvested
  through the consortium
• Static Repositories
• e.g. http//libtest.lanl.gov/
• Link to PADL your resources pages

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Using the Digital Library

• Browsing
• Searching
• Simple
• Advanced

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• Comments and suggestions can be sent to the PA
  Digital Library staff using the Contact Us link
  on the Pennsylvania Digital Library.

http//padl.pitt.edu