How to store meaningful bits

permanently

and provide access to them

Dirk Roorda - @ IBM Cambridge MA – 2011-12-12

Circulation of Knowledge 17th cnt.

dimensions◦ times◦ places◦ people◦ topics

each of them is a challenge the result is a tool, hosted at HuygensING how do we archive this?

Analysing the circulation

automatic ingest◦ per-project workflows◦ protocols (SWORD)◦ dropboxes and backup end points◦ integration with research infra structures

dissemination: linked data and RDF◦ normalise metadata (use vocabularies)◦ use Linked Data for annotation (OAC)◦ accomodate 3rd party applications on data

preservation◦ versioning by timestamps (Memento)

Solutions

from a self-service archive (EASY) through adding more and more repository

services ...◦ OAI-PMH◦ SPARQL end points◦ APIs◦ Single Sign On◦ Enhanced Search in metadata and data

to a persistent underpinning for research infrastructures

step by step