introducing symposia : “ the digital repository that thinks like a librarian”
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What is Symposia?
• An digital repository product– Manage digital collections that capture and
preserve the “born digital” intellectual output of the institution
– A solution for institutions who do not have the resources to develop and maintain open-source solutions
Features
• Collect digital output– Distributed contribution
• Authorized community members submit their own content
– Describe it• Qualified Dublin Core, METS
• Store it– Organize it
• hierarchy of communities and collections
– Preserve it– Index it
• Distribute it– Public search interface– Interoperation with other systems and services
• Metafind links repository, library catalog, other databases• OAI-PMH Data provider
– Material can be kept confidential when desirable
All types of digital assets
• Papers• Thesis• Honors projects• Library guides• Simulations• Learning objects• Digitized collections• Institutional Records• Minutes of Meetings: Board of Trustees, Friends
of the Library, etc.• AND MORE
Key Components of Symposia
• Public search interface• Distributed submission interface• Management client
Public Search Interface
• Web-based search and discovery of the repository contents
• Keyword searching, including full text• Targeted searching (e.g., search within a
single community, and search within title or subject, etc.)
• Browsing the IR structure • Community, Subcommunity and Collection
pages• Digital Items’ Qualified Dublin Core metadata
descriptions, links to described digital objects
Public Interface
Community page
Name and Logo
Subcommunities
Collections
Description of the Community
Distributed Submission Interface• Distributed work flow: communities manage their own
material• Web-based• Authorized members manage the submissions for their
communities– Submit digital objects and descriptions
• One digital item at a time• Multiple digital items in one submission
– Review for appropriateness– Edit description– Publish submissions (make them publicly accessible)– A member may be authorized for one or more tasks
• Easy to submit– Like sending an email with an attachment– Automatic extraction of metadata and full text from PDF
and DOC files
Management Client
• For “super-users” who can manage all – Communities– Collections– Digital items
• Input digital items and enhance those submitted by community members– Enhance metadata– Input administrative metadata– Automatic extraction of metadata and full text from PDF and DOC
files• Management of Members• Manage public web search interface configuration files• URL Checker• Statistics• Logins and authorizations• Java-based
Digital Object: Details
Digital Item record: Digital Object details
Full text automatically extracted (PDF and
DOC)
Digital Object: Administrative
Metadata
<mets:rightsMD> <mets:sourceMD
> <mets:digiprovM
D>Applies to specific digital object
What is Handle™?
• Support for assigning persistent identifiers to documents using the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' (CNRI) Handle System (TM) (http://www.handle.net/faq.html) is incorporated in Symposia.
• Persistent identifiers facilitate finding documents as they are cited elsewhere.
• Innovative will continue to work towards long-term preservation goals as technology and best practices develop in this area.
Key Benefits
• Increase visibility of institution– Increase citation of research
• Uniform Resource Identifier assigned to digital items
– Branding the institution
• Prestige– For institution– For members (e.g., faculty)
• Increase availability of digital assets– Google-ability
• Safeguard digital assets– Preserve in perpetuity
• Digital assets stored in one place– Not on individual hard drives– Not on personal web pages