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Act I “The Plan” (ca. 2006)

Building a Large Scale Open Source Repository at OhioLINK A Cautionary Tale In Three Acts 2007 LITA National Forum Thomas Dowling tdowling@ohiolink.edu. Act I “The Plan” (ca. 2006). Art and Architecture 1999: Art Collection (AMICO), Saskia 2000: Art and Architecture from Univ of Cincinnati

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Act I “The Plan” (ca. 2006)

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  1. Building a Large Scale Open Source Repository at OhioLINKA Cautionary Tale In Three Acts2007 LITA National ForumThomas Dowlingtdowling@ohiolink.edu

  2. Act I“The Plan”(ca. 2006)

  3. Art and Architecture 1999: Art Collection (AMICO), Saskia 2000: Art and Architecture from Univ of Cincinnati 2001: Akron Art Museum Images 2002: WPA Prints By Cleveland Artists Video Collections 2002: Foreign Language Instruction Videos 2002: Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations 2003: Educational Films And Documentaries (FFHS, Ambrose) OhioLINK Digital Media Centerdmc.ohiolink.edu

  4. History and Archives 2001: Wright Brothers Collection 2001: E.W. Scripps Papers 2001: Mayan Archeology Photos 2001: Sanborn Historic Maps 2002: Greek and Latin Inscriptions (squeezes) 2003: Lake Erie’s Yesterdays 2003: Nat’l Underground RR Freedom Ctr Images 2004: Historic Maps of Akron 2005: Kent State Shootings Oral Histories Science Collections 1999: Landsat Satellite Images of Ohio 2003: Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Digital Animal Sounds(1 | 2) 2004: Geology Digital Photographs(1 | 2) 2004: Ohio Ag Experiment Station Forestry Images 2004: Reproductive Physiology Animations 2004: Dolphin Embryos OhioLINK Digital Media Centerdmc.ohiolink.edu

  5. Oh By The Way • Electronic Journal Center: 9 million locally loaded journal articles • Electronic Theses and Dissertations: 12,000 ETDs from 17 schools • Coupla thousand locally loaded e-books • ~80 million records from A&I databases • ~10 million bib records in union catalog

  6. OhioLINK Services, June 2006 EJC DMC ETDC IR Catalog A/I DBs

  7. OhioLINK Services, June 2006 EJC Ingest, Store, Discover, Display DMC Ingest, Store, Discover, Display ETDC Ingest, Store, Search, Display IR Ingest, Store, Discover, Display Catalog A/I DBs

  8. OhioLINK Services, June 2006 EJC Ingest, Store, Discover, Display Commercial, Propietary DMC Ingest, Store, Discover, Display ETDC Ingest, Store, Discover, Display IR Ingest, Store, Discover, Display Catalog A/I DBs

  9. OhioLINK Services, June 2008 EJC — DRC — ETDC — IR Ingest Store Discover Display Open Source Catalog A/I DBs

  10. Open Source AdvocacyThe Early Days

  11. Why Open Source?Beyond Evangelism • Best of breed software • Server software: Apache, Tomcat • Repository: Fedora • Middleware: XTF, DLXS • Search: Lucene, Solr • XML Tools, programming languages • Freedom to play (Freedom to fail?)

  12. Why Open Source?The Received Wisdom

  13. Why Open Source?The Situation At OhioLINK

  14. Which Adds Up To… • Ingest: XML + HTTP + programming language of choice • Repository: Fedora • Discovery/Interface: XML +HTTP + XTF? DLXS? Web programming language of choice? • Search: Lucene/Solr

  15. …Or In Other Words… XML XSLT Journal Content Ingester Fedora Repository Journal Content Ingester Journal Content Ingester E-Book Content Ingester Image Database Ingester Dissertation Ingester Research Report Ingester Perl PHP Ruby… User Interfaces Solr Index Metasearch

  16. Act II“Reality Rears Its Ugly Head”

  17. The Thing About Conference Planning “OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network, has embarked on a large-scale project to migrate several major digital library services from disparate, commercial/proprietary platforms to a unified repository architecture built with open source tools.” Faithfully submitted,Thomas DowlingDecember 15, 2006

  18. Deadlines • E-Journals – commercial software support officially ends December 2006. • Image databases – software license and Sun server maintenance renewals due January 2007. • E-Books – ~7500 books licensed in Fall, 2006. • Institutional repository – First collection due in September 2007.

  19. Full Steam Sideways • Image Collections: University of Michigan DLXS • E-Books: CDL XTF • Institutional Repository: DSpace • E-Journals: ??? • ETDs: ??? (DSpace?)

  20. Joy. Silos.

  21. Act III“Lessons [Eventually] Learned”

  22. What’s Wrong With This Plan? “…migrate several major digital library services from disparate, commercial/proprietary platforms to a unified repository architecture built with open source tools.”

  23. “The best is the enemy of the good” — Voltaire 1694–1778 Writer, Philosopher, IT Manager

  24. One Repository To Rule Them All And In The Darkness Bind Them

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