Turn-key access?

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Using eSciDoc

• Turn-key access?

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Generic

• relating to or characteristic of a whole group or
  class
• having no particularly distinctive quality or
  application
• - merriam-webster

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Mission statement

• eSciDoc is a joint project of the
  Max-Planck-Society (MPS) and FIZ Karlsruhe
• 6 million five-year grant (20042009) from the
  German Federal Ministry of Education and
  Research
• It aims to build an integrated information,
  communication and publishing platform for
  web-based scientific work, exemplarily
  demonstrated for multi-disciplinary applications
  in the MPS

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Repository Middleware

• The most comprehensive middleware to this date
• Application independent design
• Middleware using Fedora
• Open source (CDDL license)
• Release 1 beta 3 is out now
• Adds intelligence to Digital Objects

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Repository Organization
Repository Content
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More..

• Shibboleth authentication
• Whole Object Versioning
• Webservices using REST, SOAP and eSciDoc XML
• SRU/SRW enabled search interface

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DANS

• Data Archiving and
• Networked Services
• DANS is an institute of the Royal Dutch Academy
  of Arts and Sciences
• DANS archives scientific data of the arts,
  humanities and social sciences
• DANS specializes in archiving

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Diversity of Data at DANS

• Historical Cencus data
• Historical GIS data
• WWII survivors video interviews
• Dutch Archeological data
• Dendrochronological data
• Psychological data

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Research and Development

• 5 Information scientists
• 9 Software developers
• 7 Archivists
• Active research on archiving and development
  platforms, components, standards, specifications,
  models, guidelines, etc

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Easy Screenshot Home
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Easy to understand?

• These kind of presentations are needed.
• Technical documentation is complete, but all
  other documentation is still lacking
• Tutorial and a wide range of example objects
  lacking
• eSciDoc days
• Weve had personal help.

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Easy to Install?

• Straightforward, but still no installer
• Takes a computernerd at least half a day
• Installing on different platforms no problem. We
  ran it on
• Windows
• Mac OS
• Fedora Linux

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Trustworthy?

• MPDL is a heavy user of eSciDoc with PubMan, ViRR
  and Faces
• Focus is currently on bugfixing for version 1,
  not on adding new features
• 2.500 unit tests

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Support?

• What kind of support can you expect?
• Though funding runs out mid 2009 MPDL and Fiz
  Karlsruhe have committed to support until 2011
• Mailinglist and bugtracker available
• Community?
• DANS and MPDL
• In need of growth

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Under construction

• eSciDoc Java client in alpha state
• Workflow manager untested
• Fedora 3.0 content models and disseminators not
  implemented yet

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UpcomingeSciDoc Version 1