University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

New IDEALS: Migrating an IR to a shared storage infrastructure

Kenfield, Ayla Stein; Robbins, Seth; Tracy, Daniel G.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/118241

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Title
New IDEALS: Migrating an IR to a shared storage infrastructure
Author(s)
  • Kenfield, Ayla Stein
  • Robbins, Seth
  • Tracy, Daniel G.
Issue Date
2023-06-15
Keyword(s)
  • Open Repositories 2023
  • Institutional repositories
  • Digital repository migration
Abstract
In June of 2022, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library migrated its long-lived institutional repository, IDEALS, onto shared-storage infrastructure centered on our bit-level preservation system, the Medusa Collection Registry. This involved writing new repository software to replace a customized version of DSpace 5. This was possible since our shared infrastructure supports our digital library platform as well as our data repository, giving us a wealth of reusable software libraries and developer experience to draw from. This presentation will cover the technical, administrative, and service-based reasons for this approach to our migration, major changes to the repository structure and metadata model, and our efforts to use the migration as an opportunity to improve interoperability between Illinois’ scholarly communication systems and services, and to make IDEALS more accessible and intuitive.
Description
Presented at the Open Repositories 2023 conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2023 by Ayla Stein Kenfield, Seth Robbins, and Daniel G. Tracy
  • Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License

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