merritt: new features and functionality
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We've added new functionality and features to the Merritt Repository Service, as part of the work we're doing in collaboration with several UC projects. We'll discuss the new features and what they mean for your content.TRANSCRIPT
Merritt Repository Service: Update of New Functionality
August 22, 2012Adrian Turner and Perry Willett
UC3 Summer Webinar Series
Merritt: New Functionality
First, a word about the webinar series…
• Some logistics…– Participant phones will be muted during the
formal presentation, but we will be monitoring the online chat
– Slides, Q & A, and web and voice recordings will be posted after each presentation
– Schedule available at http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/uc3webinars.html
– Please suggest additional [email protected]
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Today’s presentation
• New functionality to Merritt:– Public access– Persistent URLs– Integration with access systems– Support for Dublin core records– Click-through license agreements– Simplified ingest– Other integrations/collaborations
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• Curation repository open to the UC community and beyond
• Discipline / content agnostic
• Micro-services architecture
• Easy-to-use UI or API
Primary Functions
1. Deposit
2. Manage (metadata, versions, etc)
3. Access (expose)
4. Share (with other researchers)
5. Preserve
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Modes of use• Dark archive for important
digital assets
• Bright archive with direct discovery and access
• Preservation back-end for existing or new discovery and content management systems and services
• Integration with distributed data grids
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New features and enhancements
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Public collections
• Option to designate collection as open to the public or keep restricted
• Can provide public access to entire object in the collection (metadata + associated files)
• Or can provide public access to view metadata while restricting associated files
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There’s an option for “guest” login
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Lists the permissions you have available to content in each collection—options are• Read• Download• Write
Shows your login status
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Choosing one of the collections brings you to the list of objects
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• View key citation metadata, • Download individual versions• ... or download all versions
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Persistent links
• Persistent URLs to object landing pages using EZID– n2t.net/object-ID
• Persistent URLs to version landing page:– merritt.cdlib.org/m/object-ID/version
• Persistent URLs to file components– merritt.cdlib.org/d/object-ID/version/filename.ext
• Optimized for public collections
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Object page: http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5tb8w98Download: http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3a%2f13030%2fm5tb8w98
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The permanent linkis listed on the object landing page for each object
Clicking on the “Download object” button has the same effect as the URL below
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Version page: http://merritt.cdlib.org/m/ark%3a%2f13030%2fm52b8w98/2
Link to file: http://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3a%2f13030%2fm52b8w98/2/mrt-erc.txtAugust 22, 2012
Version landing pages also have permanent URLs
Individual filescan be referenced
using persistent URLs also
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Integration with XTF
• Working with UCSF DataShare• Process:– Retrieve Atom feed for collection– Find and retrieve metadata records– Store metadata locally– Index using XTF
• Similar process should work for other integrations, eg Blacklight/Solr
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URL to RSS feed: https://merritt.cdlib.org/object/recent.atom?collection=ark:/13030/m5nc5zgt
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RSS feed for collection
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RSS feed for collection
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Support for Dublin Core records
• Now possible to submit Dublin Core XML file instead of ERC metadata– Only simple/unqualified DC– Use filename: “mrt-dc.xml”
• Metadata generator beta: http://cdlib-stage.cdlib.org/services/uc3/datashare/generator_nq.html
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Click-through license
• Possible to add a data user agreement (DUA) at the collection level
• Every time someone tries to download an object from the collection, they would first be presented with the DUA
• Copies sent to CDL, to data owner, and to enduser
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For collections using DUAs, clicking on the “Download object” button or using the download URL leads to…
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Terms
Personal information
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Once the required fieldsare filled in, click the Accept button…
And the download begins
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Simplified ingest interface
• You no longer need to specify the type of submission (file, container, manifest)
• Just submit the file, and we’ll do the rest!
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Future developments
• Improved download for large objects• Moving some functionality to object level—public
option, DUAs• Updating objects with just the changed components• Public catalog of Merritt collections (testing with XTF
and Blacklight)• Drag-and-drop submission similar to Flickr, Dropbox
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Integrations/Collaborations
• UCSF Datashare (using XTF)• UC Berkeley IST: Research Hub (using Alfresco) • UCLA Library and Discovery Garden: Islandora
(using Drupal)• DataONE• DataUp (coming soon!) http://dcxl.cdlib.org
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Additional resources
• Merritt service:https://merritt.cdlib.org/
• UC3 Curation Wiki:https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Home
– Development plans– Use cases and deployment profiles– TRAC self-audit and cost modeling– And more...
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Questions?
• Contact us at [email protected]• http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/contact.html
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