Speaker
Description
1. Short overview
gLibrary/DRI (Digital Repositories Infrastructure) is a platform to host any kind of repository for digital content, providing a common infrastructure and a set of mechanisms (APIs and specifications) that repository providers use to define the data model, the access to content (by viewers, navigation trees and filters) and the storage model.The main goal of the platform is to reduce the cost in terms of time and effort that a repository provider spends in order to get its repository deployed
4. Conclusions / Future plans
We have developed a platform that reduces the cost for developing new digital repositories. It provides a set of API and specifications that decouples the repository developing from the underlying platform. Multiple repositories can be hosted, just by providing the UI and Storage modules. The architecture is totally Grid based (VOMS authentication/authorization,data federation and distribution, usage of the computing power in the future). A mammograms repository has been also developed.
If demonstration is requested please explain what visual or interactive aspects of the contribution necessitate a demonstration rather than a presentation or poster?
A live demonstration showing a working repository of Mammographies will be presented
Provide a set of generic keywords that define your contribution (e.g. Data Management, Workflows, High Energy Physics)
Digital Libraries, Metadata, Mammography, Medical Repositories, Data Management
3. Impact
Repository providers describe the structure of the repository contents by following the DRI Data Model specification, indicating how the model is distributed into different relational entities (tables) and also marking what parts of it are to be stored in the federated database/metadata server and what parts are to be stored into Grid SEs.
The Storage DRI API Specification provides method definitions for loading and persisting model nodes. Through this API we isolate data management from its storage technology. (However we provide an implementation of this API using Grid SRM SEs and AMGA technologies.) These methods are transparent to the node complexity and content, and also to the storage system chosen for storing the data.
The GUI Navigation functions are used for providing to the user a quick and effective way of finding any node of the data model into the repository.The navigation system is based on categories trees and a set of filters that reduce the nodes search to the user.
