Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Channel: World Data System of the ISC
Date: 16/10/2020

[Part of Panel Discussion 1: FAIR Data and Interoperability]

WDS Member Organization: Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

Abstract:
PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) has operated a data curation service for endangered language materials for 18 years. Currently consisting of 500,000 files in 28,624 items and 574 collections there is over 90TB of data under management. The repository, whilst still functional and fit for purpose, is showing signs of its age. So using the Arkisto Platform  PARADISEC is modernising the catalog whilst also enabling a path for smaller regional repositories to exist and to be able to easily move their content across collections and institutions. This demonstrates the use of RO-Crate to describe the collections and items and storage of those items within an OCFL system. In this demonstrator there is an elastic search service and a webserver but the key feature is that the demonstrator keeps working with only the filesystem and a webserver. This is promising for the sustainability of data collections like PARADISEC.