From tom at tomcoughlin.com Tue Jun 2 16:50:09 2015 From: tom at tomcoughlin.com (Thomas Coughlin) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:50:09 -0700 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] Storage for Media and Entertainment at the 2015 Creative Storage Conference Message-ID: This conference looks at digital storage for all aspects of media and entertainment, including content archiving. This event is June 30, 2015 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Culver City, CA (close to Hollywood). You can find out more at: www.creativestorage.org and register with a $100 discount at: ttps://cs2015.eventbrite.com/?discount=onehundredoff65371289 We would love to have you come if you are in the area. -- Thomas Coughlin Coughlin Associates 408-978-8184 tom at tomcoughlin.com www.tomcoughlin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From angela.dappert at gmail.com Thu Jun 11 10:57:04 2015 From: angela.dappert at gmail.com (Angela Dappert) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:57:04 +0100 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata version 3 is now available Message-ID: The PREMIS Editorial Committee is pleased to announce the availability of *version 3.0 of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata**.* This is a major new version with a revised data model, enhancing the ability to express information about software and hardware environments and intellectual entities. The *PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata version 3.0* is available from: http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v3/. It includes extensive discussion of the revised data model and the expanded description of environments in its Introduction and Special Topics sections. To enable automated workflows, there are many PREMIS semantic units that recommend that the value be taken from a controlled vocabulary. In previous versions the Data Dictionary included suggested values; most of these were included in LC?s Linked Data Service for Authorities and Vocabularies ( http://id.loc.gov/preservationdescriptions/). In this version, some examples rather than suggested values are given, and the semantic unit refers to the specific vocabulary in the id.loc.gov system. Additional terms will be added to accommodate the new or revised semantic units in version 3.0. The PREMIS XML schema is undergoing revision and will be available in the near future. When a draft is available it will be announced, and PREMIS implementers are encouraged to experiment with it and provide feedback. In addition, the PREMIS OWL ontology will be revised to reflect these changes. --- *Specific changes in this version include**:* **Make Intellectual Entity another category of PREMIS Object*. In versions 1 and 2 an Intellectual Entity was a separate entity and was out of scope for description using PREMIS except for an identifier to link to it from other PREMIS entities. This change will enable a repository to represent an aggregate, such as a collection, FRBR work or expression, fonds or series, in order to capture descriptive metadata, to associate business requirements with it (such as significant characteristics, risk definitions, guidelines for preservation actions, etc.), to support structural and derivative relationships, to make rights statements, and to establish relationships to preservation events. In addition it will allow for the repository to capture versioning information and metadata update events at the Intellectual Entity level for resources such as articles or issues. **Revise the data model so that software and hardware environments can be described and preserved reusing the Object entity*. In order to preserve Digital Objects, repositories need to have information about the elements of the technical stack of software, hardware and other dependencies needed to correctly interpret the representations, files and bitstreams. This is particularly important for certain types of resources that are dependent on combinations of hardware and software for their use, e.g. multimedia or web sites. In previous PREMIS versions, environment descriptions were associated with each individual Object; now they may be described as Intellectual Entities and preserved as Representation, File or Bitstream Objects. Semantic units that are specific to Environment descriptions capture the function and designation of the Environment and may link to environment descriptions in external registries. Environments can be represented as aggregates or as individual components (e.g. an executable file, a stylesheet); therefore, relationships become crucial. A direct relationship between Agents and Objects will now be used to capture the Environment that acted as the Agent in an Event. **Physical Objects can be described as Representations* and related to digital Objects and are thus no longer out of scope for PREMIS descriptions. **preservationLevelType is added* as a new semantic unit to indicate the type of preservation functions expected to be applied to the object for the given preservation level. An example might be where the preservation level type is ?bit preservation level? and the repository elaborates by assigning ?low?, ?medium? or ?high?. **agentVersion is added* to the Agent entity to express the version of software Agents. **compositionLevel is no longer restricted to an integer*, so that *an *?*unknown? value *may be used if the information is not available. An ?*unknown? value may also apply to formatName*, which is a mandatory semantic unit, for unidentified formats. 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Penn State?s ScholarSphere [1] moved all data from production instances of Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 in about 20 hours. The new ScholarSphere repository now takes advantage of Fedora 4?s processing of large files. The ScholarSphere service was collaboratively developed by The University Libraries and Information Technology Services (ITS) to offer coordinated digital stewardship support for Penn State e-research and e-science initiatives. Fedora-Migrate [2] and Fedora Migration Utilities [3] are now available for community testing to ensure that Fedora community members have the tools they need to begin work toward establishing Fedora 3 to 4 repository tests and production workflows. Most pilot institutions tested Fedora-Migrate and Fedora Migration Utilities while taking slightly different approaches to using the migration tools to determine how to move towards establishing production Fedora 4 repositories. Last year the National Library of Wales [4], The University of New South Wales [5], York University [6], and Columbia University [7]developed pilot projects to test the migration of content from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 under a variety of scenarios in preparation for the launch of production repositories with superior Fedora 4 features. Each institution took a slightly different approach to scoping their test project and defining its successful implementation. Like Penn State?s ScholarSphere, Columbia University?s Academic Commons took advantage of the Fedora-Migrate tool to determine if Fedora 3 data could be modeled in Fedora 4. The Fedora-Migrate tool, which is designed primarily for Hydra implementations with an emphasis on those based on Sufia, iterates over existing Fedora 3 objects using the Rubydora gem. For each object it finds, it creates a new object with the same id in Fedora 4 and proceeds to migrate each datastream, including versions if they are defined, and verifies the checksum of each. Permissions and relationships are migrated as well but using different procedures due to the changes to permissions and relationships in Fedora 4. Developers at Columbia noted that future migrations would require additional modifications to Fedora-Migrate because more Fedora 3 features are used as part of Columbia content models. The National Library of Wales (NLW) tested the general Migration Utilities to process their Fedora 3 FOXML documents and convert them to Fedora 4 resources. The NLW pilot project tested the migration of a large Newspaper title (187,331 objects) and a modern digitized Journal with complex rights issues. The NLW team found that the the Migration Utilities were easy to use. The team tested the utilities and were able to provide valuable feedback to the developers by logging issues in the JIRA bug tracker. This feedback allows for improvement of the migration utilities to support a broader range of use cases. University of New South Wales (UNSW) directed their pilot efforts towards coming up with a strategy for upgrading the Library?s Fedora 3-based repositories. A key part of this strategy was the development of a Fedora 4 data model that would remain compatible with existing UNSW repositories but would also align with the Portland Common Data Model [8]. The project has established a test Fedora 4 instance that implements the preliminary data model, and later in 2015 the first UNSW legacy repository will be migrated to Fedora 4. York University Libraries has developed YUDL which is an institutional Islandora repository that runs on the latest version of all Islandora Foundation modules. The repository is as close to a stock/generic Islandora instance as possible. The aim of the project was to serve as a basis for a generic Islandora Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 upgration using Fedora Migration Utilities. To this end, the project contributed greatly to the development of the Fedora Migration Utilities, including detailed mappings from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 data models. These Fedora 4 migration tools, Fedora-Migrate [2] and Fedora Migration Utilities [3], are now available thanks to community efforts. Please download, test and provide feedback to help improve them! 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URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Tue Jun 16 11:34:29 2015 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:34:29 -0400 Subject: [Pasig-discuss] REGISTRATION IS OPEN for Fedora Camp at Duke University Message-ID: June 16, 2015 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1HWUEs9 Register: http://conta.cc/1R4HHkM Contact: David Wilcox *Reserve Your Spot Today: REGISTRATION IS OPEN for Fedora Camp* Fedora 4, the new, revitalized version of Fedora, was released into production in November 2014. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more. How can you learn more? Come to Fedora Camp, November 16-18 (Monday-Wednesday) at Duke University where participants will have a chance to dive in and learn all about Fedora 4. Register here . Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts?no prior Fedora 4 experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep Fedora 4 learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers and Fedora gurus. A draft curriculum, including presentations slides, is available here . Online booking for Fedora Camp accommodations is now available here . Details: - Group Name: Fedora Camp Training Workshop/Duke University Library - Group Code: FCTW - Check-in: 15-NOV-2015 - Check-out: 19-NOV-2015 - Hotel Name: Hilton GaHirden Inn Durham/University Medical Center - Hotel Address: 2102 West Main Street, Durham, North Carolina 27705 - Phone: 919-286-0778 Attendees may either click the link above or use the group code when booking to get the discount rate of $119/night. The rooms are blocked off at that rate from Nov. 15-19. They may also book nights before or after that date range, but not at the same rate/guarantee. Attendees should book early. 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You can find more information about the conference program, including list of papers and keynote speakers here: http://tpdl2015.info/program/main-conference-agenda/ There is also a number of events co-hosted with the conference, making together full week of exciting events: - 5 tutorials (http://tpdl2015.info/tutorials-list/) -- Automatic Methods for Disambiguating Author Names in Bibliographic Data Repositories -- Building Digital Library Collections with Greenstone 3 -- Catmandu ? a (meta)data toolkit -- Dynamic Data Citation ? Enabling Reproducibility in Evolving Environment -- Mappings, Application profiles and Extensions for cross-domain metadata in the Europeana context and beyond - 7 workshops (http://tpdl2015.info/workshops-list/) -- 3rd International Workshop on Digital Scientific Communication: Reuse, Sharing, and Assessment of All Research Products (WDSC) -- 5th International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2015) -- Cloud based services for digital libraries -- Extending, mapping and focusing the CRM -- Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation -- Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems and Services (NKOS) -- Usefulness of interactive IR systems Some of the workshops still have their call for papers open, so you can contribute to them! 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We are currently seeking proposals for the 2015 DLF Forum program. The Program Planning Committee requests proposals within the broad framework of digital collections, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. You do not need to be part of a member organization in order to submit a proposal. The Forum traditionally has no overarching theme so that we can craft a program that speaks to current issues of interest to our community. We depe nd on contributors to focus proposals on action-oriented topics targeted towards a practitioner audience, considering the aspects of design, management, implementation, assessment, and collaboration. Suggested topical areas for 2015 include: ? Linked data implementations ? Collaborative digital projects across GLAM institutions ? Innovative approaches to engaging users and reusing data and collections (e.g., data visualization, mapping, crowdsourcing, citizen science) ? Systems architecture, both hardware and code ? Open data, open access, or open educational resources This is not a prescriptive list; we encourage you to be creative, collaborative, and collegial. Proposals are due June 22. For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/cfp/ The call for proposals for the DLF Liberal Arts Colleges Preconference is also open until June 22. Please share widely. Apologies for cross-posting. 2015 DLF Forum , Vancouver, October 26-28 Call for Proposals ? Due June 22 Registration ? Early bird until May 31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: