the library is openDigital Assets Management

&Institutional Repository

Russian-IUG24-25 November

2015Tomsk, Russia

Nabil SaadallahManager Business Development

What is vital?

Institutional Repository based on Fedora: Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture

Fedora ™ and DSpace communities have merged to become DuraSpace

Fedora ™ and DSpace software to remain separate repositoriesInnovative to continue supporting Fedora ™

Digital Assets Management [DAM] Or Institutional Repository

Set of services that a library offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members

Repository ServicesMaintains storage of digital objectsExposes external interface for Digital Objects: for Creation, Modification, and AccessEnforces access policiesProvides mechanism for content type disseminationsOffers preservation assistance

Vital-Fedora™ Relationship

FEDORA

Single Submission Tool

Access Portal: Discovery platforms,

Library page

Indexes

Web Services: APIs, Search Engines.

Batch Loading Tool

Reasons to base vital on Fedora™Open source

FreeInnovative is a contributor

Flexible Development can be in any programming language

ExtensibleWe can write workflow tools that facilitate different types of functions

XML Submission and StorageDigital objects are stored as XML-encoded files

Reasons to base vital on Fedora™

Native OAI-PMH supportScalablePersistent storage for content & metadataContent can be local and/or remoteSupport of content versioningRepository exposed by Web services APIsPermits handling of complex objects

Fedora™ Digital Object Architecture

Globally Unique Persistent ID

Public View: access methods for obtaining “disseminations” of digital object content

Internal View: metadata necessary to manage the object

Protected View: content that makes up the “basis” of the object

Persistent ID (PID)

Disseminators

SystemMetadata

Datastreams

EAD, TEI, DC, MARC,VRA Core, MIX, etc.

Images, E-books, E-journals, Music, Video, etc.

Digital Object

DC

EAD

AdminMetadata

EAD

Vital’s Added Value Additional indexing capabilities User Interfaces (intuitive, multilingual) Default cataloging templates Default stylesheets (mods, EAD, MARCXML) for metadata synchronization to Dublin Core Easy handling of communities, collections and sub-collectionsHandles server integration with automatic handles assignment

Vital’s Added Value User Permissions WEB Metadata XML Editor SRU and OpenURL enabled Exposed to search engines (Google, Yahoo…) Special viewers for specific type of objects Support for dynamic creation/export of content citationsDocumentation, Training, Support

Vital’s Added Value - Viewers Image Navigator: High resolution viewer

JPEG2000 MrSID

Document Navigator PDF objects Multi-page viewer

XML Display Enhanced display from some XML schemas

See it live

Demo site

VOCEDplus

MACQUARIE University

KCPL

Questions?