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DRC Replacement Project

Glen Horton edited this page Jan 11, 2022 · 23 revisions

Project goal: Migrate existing DRC content from old DSpace application and shutdown the old platform

Scope:

  • Develop a new repository application that can support the current DRC content
  • Deploy new application to hosting environment
  • Clean up and migrate existing DRC content to new platform
  • Sunset the old DSpace platform

Timeline:

  • January 2022: Project restart
  • February - May 2022: Develop software
  • Summer 2022: Migrate DRC content to new application
  • August 2022: Sunset old DRC platform

Current (obsolete) DSpace platform

Reasons for migrating away from current DRC platform:

  • DSpace software is old and highly customized - cannot be upgraded
  • DSpace software is vulnerable to security issues
  • Several features are broken and cannot easily be fixed (image viewer, OAI export, etc.)
  • IT@UC is unable to continue supporting the Oracle database
  • Interface is outdated

New Samvera platform

New application

  • A Samvera-based Hyrax application
  • Same underlying application as Scholar@UC

Major features required to support DRC content:

  • Handles (preserve the current perma-links)
  • Metadata field management (allinson flex)
  • gui ingest/export
  • batch editing (round tripping)
  • items by collection instead of work
  • enhanced search and browse
  • archival master support

Project history:

Links and resources

Development:

Terminology:

  • Samvera
  • Hyrax
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