Top Priorities in IT and Digital Projects at Georgia Tech

Tyler WaltersGeorgia Tech Library and Information Center

For ASERL ITDIIG – September 24, 2009

GALILEO Knowledge RepositoryConsortial Digital Repositories

GKR: http://GKR.library.gatech.edu

•Survey & focus groups

•Searchable metadata repository

•IR-hosting DSpace service for four partner USG insts.

•IR-related services

•Two-day conference and workshop on statewide & consortial repositories

~Guide to Statewide and Consortial Repositories~

MetaArchive Cooperative(Digital Preservation)

•1st Private LOCKSS Network

•Replicates files / geographic distribution

•Monitors and replaces files

•Affordable / Achievable

•PLNs are spreading / viable approach

Consortial Digital RepositoriesMetaArchive: http://GKR.library.gatech.edu

Publishing, Content, and Curation Services

Virtual Research Environments

Publishing, Content, and Curation Services

E-Publishing /

CapturingServices

MetaSearch, Discovery & Courseware

Digital Curation and Preservation Architecture

– Sun Infinite Archive Solution – Sun StorageTek 2540 disk array (16 TB)– SL 500 Tape Library (combined 529 TB)– Managed by Sun’s SAM server and ZFS software

• For management of GT digital assets, including consortially-held assets, and future research data initiatives

Links: Top Priorities in IT and Digital Projects

1) Consortial Digital Repositories– GKR: http://GKR.library.gatech.edu – MetaArchive Cooperative: http://metaarchive.org

2) ePublishing, Content, and Curation Services– VREs: http://vre.upei.ca/dev/

• i.e. http://islandlives.ca/ -- http://www.islandstudies.ca/

– Publishing: (http://epage.library.gatech.edu) • www.itidjournal.org -- http://www.gttower.org/

3) MetaSearch and Discovery– http://finder.library.gatech.edu/ – http://tsquare.gatech.edu

4) Digital Curation and Preservation Architecture