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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
Howard HannaWeb Developer, IT
Aaron CoburnSystems Administrator/Programmer, IT
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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?