DRC Replacement Project

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

drc.libraries.uc.edu

• Images, audio, PDFs, etc.
• Over 600,000 items
• ~60 collections
• TB
• Cincinnati Birth and Death Records: 530,517 items

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• Interface is outdated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:

• Project kanban board
• Issues (features, bugs, etc.)
• Sprints
• Sandbox application (coming soon)

Terminology:

• Samvera
• Hyrax
• work
• fileset
• collection
• community
• item
• agile development
  • sprint
  • standup