An architecture for a distributed digital library from the desktop up: the fascinator

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Sefton, Peter and Dickinson, Duncan. 2010. "An architecture for a distributed digital library from the desktop up: the fascinator." Hunter, Jane (ed.) JCDL 2010: Digital Libraries - 10 years past, 10 years forward, a 2020 Vision. Gold Coast, Australia 21 - 25 Jun 2010 New York, NY, USA . https://doi.org/10.1145/1816123.1816194
Paper/Presentation Title

An architecture for a distributed digital library from the desktop up: the fascinator

Presentation TypePoster
AuthorsSefton, Peter (Author) and Dickinson, Duncan (Author)
EditorsHunter, Jane
Journal or Proceedings TitleProceedings of the 10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2010)
Number of Pages1
Year2010
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN9781450300858
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1145/1816123.1816194
Web Address (URL) of Paperhttp://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1816123.1816194&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=46526475&CFTOKEN=75210869
Conference/EventJCDL 2010: Digital Libraries - 10 years past, 10 years forward, a 2020 Vision
Event Details
JCDL 2010: Digital Libraries - 10 years past, 10 years forward, a 2020 Vision
Event Date
21 to end of 25 Jun 2010
Event Location
Gold Coast, Australia
Abstract

This poster describes the architecture of a new kind of digital repository service that includes components that run on desktop computers, designed to close the gap between Institutional Repositories (IRs) and the day-to-day electronic work environment used by researchers, and to address the too-often heard cry from repository managers of “we built it but they didn't come”.
The team at the Australian Digital Futures Institute are working with researchers to provide software that can (a) index and expose the research data content on their hard disks (b) extract metadata from files (c) automatically process data according to highly configurable workflows including producing web-ready renditions of research objects including documents, domain specific data visualizations (such as chemical molecules) and converting video and images so that they may be easily previewed.

The architecture is inspired by the success of consumer software in two ways; the way entertainment programs organize content via faceted browse and search interfaces using embedded metadata, and the way photographic software allows content to be grouped into collections and pushed to online services, which are essentially repositories.

Keywordsrepositories; information systems; search; research
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020461206. Software architecture
460905. Information systems development methodologies and practice
359999. Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
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