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Preliminary Results of the EuropeanaLocal Technical Questionnaire

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:

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Preliminary Results of the EuropeanaLocal Technical Questionnaire

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  1. Preliminary Results of the EuropeanaLocal Technical Questionnaire (Stein) Runar Bergheim

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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)

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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!!!

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