Software and Hardware

ShareGeo Open is a data repository for Open data. There are lots of useful spatial datasets that have been deposited by users for others to download and re-use. This create – share – reuse philosophy is central to ShareGeo Open. All the data in the repository is open and can be re-used freely making it ideal for students, researchers and teaching staff to find data. In addition to the just downloading data, users can upload data to the repository.  URL: www.sharegeo.ac.uk

Cairo is a project funded under the 'Tools and Innovation' strand of the JISC's capital programme on Repositories and Preservation. Cairo will develop a tool for ingesting complex collections of born-digital materials, with basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata, into a preservation repository.

COSI is a web applications framework built to provide authentication (via either LDAP or the built-in service) and roles based access to modules of grouped functionality (or sub applications). More information about COSI can be found at the APSR web site. COSI is built with PHP (5.2.1) and PostgreSQL (8.2.3), and has been tested running under Apache 2.2.4 on Redhat Linux 9 and Mac OS X 10.4, but should also run on windows (and maybe even under Internet Information Server). PHP should be configured with pgsql, libxml, xsl, ldap, and open ssl.

Fez is an open source project to produce and maintain a highly flexible web interface to FEDORA for any Library or Institution to configure and publish or archive documents of any type sustainably.

The RIFF Submission Service provides a service-oriented framework to support the packaging and routing of content and metadata from a source application to a target repository.

Expertisecentrum DAVID is a centre of research and knowledge on digital archiving.

The Web Curator Tool (WCT) is a tool for managing the selective web harvesting process. It is designed for use in libraries and other collecting organisations, and supports collection by non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the web harvesting process. The WCT Project is a collaborative effort by the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library, initiated by the International Internet Preservation Consortium.

If you have audiovisual media, it needs maintenance - or you will lose it. This guide shows how to:conserve old formatsdigitise for transfer to new formatscreate digital file formatsuse digital restorationuse mass storageprovide electronic and web access Functionality:  Wiki Level of Expertise:  Introductory, but also has information of use to experienced professionals

OJAX provides a highly dynamic AJAX-based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata. OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful.

The National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT) doesn't currently have the needed infrastructures to support the processes of ingestion and management of digital objects produced by the public administration (PA). The initiatives of the eGovernment establish the need to support its activity in information and communication technologies to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their public services. In this scenario it is clear that the number of digital objects produced by these institutions will grow, and that their legal value and authenticity should be assured.

Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. The Protégé platform supports two main ways of modelling ontologies via the Protégé-Frames and Protégé-OWL editors. Protégé ontologies can be exported into a variety of formats including RDF(S), OWL, and XML Schema.

Academic institutions are beginning to create institutional digital repositories. This is an on-going project set up by a collaboration of international digital library and archival communities to develop a sustainable, global registry of digital representation formats, which are represented in a human readable form. The GDFR would interoperate with the TOM tool Functionality:  File format registry. Level of Expertise:  Knowledge of digital repositories.

This tool assists web page creators to embed standardised metadata into their pages. It will also prepare pages for harvesting and integrate different metadata schemas. Lists of the standards can be found on the EdNA website. NOTE: This project ended in September 2011. Functionality:  Metadata creator and editor. Level of Expertise:  Knowledge of metadata and some knowledge of Java applications.

The International Records Management Trust has created a software tool to assist the preservation and management of records in the public sector. This tool can be applied across all public sector areas and disciplines and can identify strengths, weaknesses and risks in existing systems. Functionality:  Records management tool to assist long term preservation. Level of Expertise:  Knowledge of records management.

XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is a tool that assists the digital preservation workflow in that it allows you to attach metadata to digital objects. It is an open-source product and freely available to the community. XMP is extensible in that it can also accommodate existing metadata schemas. This tool is particularly pertinent for digital imaging. Functionality:  Metadata creation tool. Level of Expertise:  Fairly high. Knowledge of C++ programming to implement this tool.

This digital repository service is open source and free to implement. The system architecture supports the storage of digital objects, version control, import and export of objects in XML as well as search and retrieval. Its most powerful feature is that it supports multiple representations of the same digital object, which can be local or remote, thus leading to rich information networks. Functionality:  Digital library/repository software.

Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. This service is a freely available preservation service that works on the principle that by persistently caching multiple copies of a web serials over multiple sites, the chances of that particular object being preserved are greatly increased. It is used by libraries to preserve their content over the long-term. The software is cheap and easy to use, and any institution can get involved. Functionality:  Digital library tool and web page harvester.

By far one of the largest repositories of information on Digital Preservation. The various erpaProducts range from Guidance documents on the costing of digital preservation and implementing policies (among others), to critiques and contextualisation of all the important papers and materials so far produced. Case studies explore various companies' and Institutions' experiences of digital preservation and a large number of reports and papers offer access to the latest research in the field.

A global persistent store that will support millions of users at any given time. Functionality:  Durable, consistent storage for back-up purposes. Level of Expertise:  Basic knowledge of storage systems.

This digital repository toolkit will enable xml-based digital objects to be searched and retrieved according to any XML DTD. The tool is aimed at assisting repository administrators who have limited technical knowledge. NOTE: To the best of our knowledge, this project is no longer active.  Please let us know if you have more current information! Functionality:  XML-based digital repository for management of digital collections.

This has been developed by the National Library of New Zealand and leads the way in being one of the first tools of its kind to extract preservation metadata from the headers of a range of file formats. The metadata standard used is the NLNZ preservation metadata schema, but it can be configured to support other business processes. Automatic extraction is a key development for the digital preservation community.

A collection of digital library projects under existence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These include search tools and resources for digital library development. NOTE: To the best of our knowledge, this project is no longer active.  Please let us know if you have more current information!

The International Council on Archives (ICA) is dedicated to the advancement of archives worldwide. In pursuing the advancement of archives, ICA works for the protection and enhancement of the memory of the world. ICA is the professional organisation for the world archival community, dedicated to promoting the preservation, development, and use of the world's archival heritage. It brings together national archive administrations, professional associations of archivists, regional and local archives and archives of other organisations as well as individual archivists.

SKOS stands for Simple Knowledge Organisation System. SKOS Core is a model used to describe 'concept' schemas and the relationships between them. For example, glossaries, thesauri, controlled vocabularies. Functionality:  Provides a framework for expressing knowledge organisation systems in a machine-understandable way. Level of Expertise:  Good understanding of the concept of ontologies and descriptive schemas, such as RDF.

Persistent Identifiers are essential conditions for an effective management of digital resources and reliable access to electronic documents. Currently several persistent identifiers services have been established, however there is a general demand concerning the active introduction of persistent identifiers, further development of technical components of persistent identifier services and the establishment of an organisational infrastructure regarding persistent identifiers.

(JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment): USA. Every object that is ingested into a digital archive needs to be identified and its file format needs to be verified. A data curator needs to be sure that the digital object entered into an archive is the file format that it purports to be. Functionality:  File format verification tool. Level of Expertise:  High. Technical knowledge of applications, APIs (Application Programme Interfaces) to implement the tool.

ShareGeo Open is a data repository for Open data. There are lots of useful spatial datasets that have been deposited by users for others to download and re-use. This create – share – reuse philosophy is central to ShareGeo Open. All the data in the repository is open and can be re-used freely making it ideal for students, researchers and teaching staff to find data. In addition to the just downloading data, users can upload data to the repository.  URL: www.sharegeo.ac.uk

OJAX provides a highly dynamic AJAX-based user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata. OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful.