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NERCOMP Annual Conference, March 13, 2013

Emily Dickinson on the iPadDesigning a digital collection for 21st century scholarship

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 Who we areLibrary and IT collaboration at Amherst College

Kelcy ShepherdHead of Digital Programs, Frost Library

kshepherd@amherst.edu

Howard HannaWeb Developer, IT

hhanna@amherst.edu

Aaron CoburnSystems Administrator/Programmer, IT

acoburn@amherst.edu

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Six million objects in search of a DAMDouble-click to add DAM joke

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Out-of-the-box systemsEvaluating possibilities and limitations

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 Why Fedora?Flexibility, metadata support, digital preservation

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ZOMG, you want it when?!Building a repository in six months or less

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Live demohttps://acdc.amherst.edu

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Digital repositories are data repositoriesAnticipating and accommodating different types of objects

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Digital repositories are data repositoriesWe cannot always anticipate how the content will be used

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 AccessWho accesses your data: people, automata, devices

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Distributed systems are complex Monolithic systems do not scale

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Interface at all levelsEvery component uses and provides an interface

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Interface at all levelsEvery component needs and provides an interface

Cool URLs

https://acdc.amherst.edu/search/Emily+Dickinson

https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:17270

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Interface at all levelsEvery component needs and provides an interface

RESTful APIs

https://acdc.amherst.edu/fedora

https://acdc.amherst.edu/solr

https://acdc.amherst.edu/sparql

https://acdc.amherst.edu/api

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 ArchitectureAsynchronous, distributed, heterogenous

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 ArchitectureContent repositories

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 ArchitectureUser interface

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 ArchitectureSemantic web

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 ArchitectureSpecialized content handling

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 ArchitectureData retrieval

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 ArchitectureApplication messaging

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I want one too!Where to begin

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FutureContent, features, format

geographic interfaces

visualization

oral historieslinked open data

natural history data

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Image credits

http://activemq.apache.org

http://backbonejs.org

http://camel.apache.org

http://couchdb.apache.org

http://drupal.org

http://fedora-commons.org

http://imagemagick.org

http://jena.apache.org

http://jquery.com

http://karaf.apache.org

http://lucene.apache.org/solr

http://maps.google.com

http://mysql.com

http://poi.apache.orghttp://redis.io

http://shibboleth.net

http://stanbol.apache.org

http://wowza.com

http://www.amherst.edu

http://www.linkeddata.org

http://www.mulgara.org

http://www.openlayers.org

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Questions?

kshepherd@amherst.edu

hhanna@amherst.edu

acoburn@amherst.edu