A Review of Options for the Development of
Research Data Management Technical Infrastructure at the University of
Sheffield: Addendum 1
4. Infrastructure
Components
4.1. Integrated systems and integrating components
ONEIS for
research provides three connected modules to support the whole university
research lifecycle. ‘Research Manager’ is a CRIS component, providing
management of grant applications, project costing, ethics and project approval
and data management plans. ‘PhD Manager’ provides administration of PhD
registration, supervision, progress review and completion. ‘Data Curator’
provides a means of long-term secure storage, description of data with rich
metadata, data discovery and access, and administration of licensing and access
rights. These ONESIS components were developed in collaboration with the University
of Westminster.
4.3.
‘Archive data’ storage and digital preservation
systems and services
4.3.8. Figshare (additional information)
‘Figshare for Institutions’ provides a ‘project area’ for
collaborative working (includes collaborators from outside the institution). The
cloud storage facility is provided by Amazon Web Services (S3 and Glacier),
though Figshare can hold metadata only ‘Stubb’ records for data held elsewhere.
Figshare is integrated with Symplectics [4.6.1], ORCID [4.9.5] and Altmetric
[4.9.10], uses Shibboleth authentication [4.9.4] and mints DOIs from Datacite
[4.9.1]. Figshare is OpenAIRE[1]
compliant and a CLOCKSS[2]
collaborator.
4.3.9. Rossetta (additional information)
Rossetta is storage agnostic: any storage service may be
integrated via the Storage Abstraction Layer, using plugins. The preservation
workflow is configurable, and the metadata schema is highly customisable. The
system architecture involves an Oracle database, uses Java APIs and a SOLR
search engine. The preservation process incorporates the PRONOM global
digital format registry[3]
for file charachterisation.
Archivematica is a free open source CMS / repository system
for managing preservation of digital content, designed by Artefactual. The
system has a micro-services architecture which provides a suite of tools for
processing digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the OAIS
reference model. Archivematica uses METS, PREMIS and Dublin Core standards, uses
the Bagit format [4.8.2] and is incorporates PRONOM. The system provides a
‘dashboard’ for public search and access, and for administrative / archiving
functions. Files are stored in local or
remote storage services, managed through multiple configurable pipelines. Once
processed, the DIP (Dissemination Information Package) may be uploaded to a CMS
for web access – AtoM [4.2.15] is the (bundled) default access system, but
ContentDM [4.2.10] may also be used. Implementations
include Columbia University Libraries, Harvard Business School, MoMA, and Yale
University Library.
The Repository of Authentic Digital Objects is a free open
source digital preservation system built in Java. This is based on the Fedora
Commons platform [4.2.3] which provides the ‘RODA Data Services’ backend, above
which is the ‘RODA Core Services’ layer, based on secure web services, which
handles the ingest workflow, preservation planning, repository querying and
administrative functions. On top of this lays the RODA web user interface (based
on the Google web toolkit), providing access through download and embedded web
viewers. The preservation actions (compliant with the OAIS model) and migration
services are handled by a separate component. RODA is interoperable with other
systems, such as AtoM. Used by the National Library of Wales, King’s College
London and University of Dundee.
Rreservica is a proprietary digital preservation system
developed by Tessella. The software as a service system is built from Java and
provides flexible storage options – cloud storage using Amazon Glacier, S3 and
RDS, local file servers or a hybrid system. The web interface includes embedded
rendering / viewers. Interoperability with other systems through APIs (Java,
REST and SOAP) and OAI-PMH [4.8.3], and integrates with Sharepoint [4.4.3] and
discovery systems [4.5]. Preservation workflows are configurable, file formats
are characterised by PRONOM and technical metadata extracted using JHOVE[4].
Customers include National Libraries of Australia, Estonia, Finland and Latvia;
UK National Archives; Met Office; UK Parliament; Wellcome Library.
The Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a web-services
interface for secure cloud storage of unlimited volumes of data. This service
offers fast retrieval compared to Amazon Glacier.
4.5.
Catalogue software / Access platforms
Designed by
Artefactual , 'AtoM' (acronymn for 'Access to Memory') is a free web-based
archival description software that is based on International Council on
Archives ('ICA') standards. This system allows organisations to create
standards-based descriptions of their archival holdings and subsequently
publish them to the World Wide Web.
4.9.
Identifier services and identity
components
Altmetrics, supported by Digital Science (as is Figshare,
Projects and Symplectics), collects article level metrics by tracking mention
of schoralry articles. Three products are offered – ‘Altmetrics explorer’, for
viewing, analysing and reporting metrics for articles in the database;
‘Embeddable badges’ which add metrics to a journal platform or application;
Altmetric API, giving flexible metric display.
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