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Fedora 4 as a Shared Linked DataRepository for the AIC Collections
Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services – The Art Institute of Chicago – [email protected] Open Repositories Conference 2014, Helsinki, Finland
The AIC Collections
l 250,000 art objects in Collections l Several millions of image and text assets l Many different departments access these data
l 11 Curatorial depts. l Registrar l Conservation l Imaging l Publications l Help Desk l Etc.
Goals
l Build a scalable asset repository l Create a pool of shared, linked information l Move toward a de-centralized, asynchronous
architecture l Maintain current CMS as the main management
platform l Standardize data formats
Why Fedora?
l Scalable and reliable l Interface agnostic l Content agnostic l Modular, distributed l Community driven
Fedora 4: a hard decision
l We built a F3 proof of concept, then moved to F4 l F4 features are very helpful to our mission l F3 had the guarantee of stability l Some features won't be available soon in F4 l Starting with F3 and migrating to F4 later would have
been very time-consuming
Fedora 4 Key Features for AIC
l Federation of external sources l Asynchronous content processing (Sequencers) l Powerful REST API l Clustering l Completely RDF-based l Based on a reliable storage engine (Modeshape)
Use case proposals
Functionality we plan to build around F4 features: l Building a pool (or better, a LAKE) of shared data l Large file ingestion l Content modeling
Use case 1: LAKE – Linked Assetand Knowledge Ecosystem
LAKE Gateways to Shared Data
AIC Departments with Access Roles
Non-Shared Data
Federate WWW Resources
Use Case 2: Ingesting Large FilesUsers upload assets to remote FS
Manifest file triggers ingestion
Derivative generation and metadata
Use Case 3: Content Modeling
RDF relationships
Thank you
For further discussion: • Fedora 4 Wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF • Discuss on Google Groups: Fedora Tech • E-mail me: [email protected] • Visit the Art Institute of Chicago Collections online:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections