Preliminary Results of the EuropeanaLocal Technical Questionnaire

(Stein) Runar Bergheim

Goal of Questionnaire

The purpose of the questionnaire is to establish which level of technical knowledge is available among the Content Providers in order to aid Technical Partners in:

Planning the implementation activities;

Identify partners who need special attention and close follow-up in order to meet project goals;

Getting an overview of technologies being used;

Identifying existing, implementation-ready repositories.

Questions Asked

Contact Details

Organisation contact

Technical contact

Competence Related Questions

What can the organisation do itself?

What external resources are available?

Envisaged support requirements?

Technology Related Questions

Platforms

Databases

Technologies

Repository products

Preliminary Response Statistics: 12.01.2009

55 responses from: Austria (1)

Belgium (2)

Bulgaria (1)

Cyprus (1)

Denmark (1)

Finland (1)

France (2)

Germany (1)

Greece (1)

Ireland (1)

Latvia (1)

Lithuania (2)

Malta (1)

Netherlands (1)

Norway (2)

Poland (21)

Portugal (12)

Slovakia (1)

Sweden (1)

United Kingdom (1)

What can the organisation do itself?

75% of the organisations have competence within MLA disciplines

86% of the organisations knows how to perform a regular software installation

29% of the organisations can do development/programming work

73% of the organisations runs and maintains databases

What external resources are available?

15 respondents have stated that they will bring along technical support to the workshops

40 respondents have stated that they do not need support from additional technical support

Envisaged support requirements?

37% of the respondents think web based support will be sufficient

49% of the respondents think E-mail and forum support would be good

13% of the respondents would like phone support

17% (9) respondents would like on-site support (visits)

Bandwidth Availability

3 respondents: less than < 1 Mbps

7 respondents: 1-2 Mbps

10 respondents: 2-4 Mbps

7 respondents: 4-10 Mbps

30 respondents: > 10 Mpbs

Platforms used

31% of the respondents run Windows servers out of which Windows 2003 is predominant

31% of the respondents run various flavours of Linux

Databases used

The most commonly used databases are:

PostgreSQL (39%)

MySQL & Microsoft SQL Server (both 27%)

Oracle (16%)

and

Flat files (11%)

A multitude of other database systems are also in use

Technologies used

PHP is the most frequently used programming language with 40% of the respondents saying that they are using it

It is followed by Java/JSP and PERL with 21%

ASP.NET, C++ and Visual Basic also represent about 10% of the responses each

Repository products used

Most respondents have custom systems which are only used at their site or a very limited number of sites

3 respondents use Dspace

1 respondent use Fedora Commons

1 respondent use Greenstone

19 respondents (!) use dLibra (Poland)

35 respondents say that their collections are already OAI-PMH compliant

20 are not OAI-PMH compliant

3 respondents state that their content is not yet available on the Internet!!!