DRC Replacement Project

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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

Project history:

March 2020: Task force charged in March 2020
2020: Planning, metadata work, and initial application developed
January - Feb 2021: development sprints
March - December 2021: pause and regroup

Tentative 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:

https://drc.libraries.uc.edu
Images, audio, PDFs, etc.
Over 600,000 items
~60 collections
9 terabytes
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Interface is outdated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 (using Allinson Flex)
GUI-based ingest/export (using Bulkrax)
Batch editing (round tripping)
Limiting works to a single collection
enhanced search and browse
archival master support

Links and resources

Development:

Terminology:

Samvera
- Hyrax
- work
- fileset
- collection
- Allinson Flex
- Bulkrax
DSpace
- community
- collection
- item
Agile development
- sprint
- standup
- swarm