Using a Fedora institutional repository to preserve rescued data in OSF projects
Channel: Data Conservancy
Date: 2017-05-02

The Data Conservancy was introduced to Data Rescue Boulder through our long-time partner Ruth Duerr of Ronin Institute. Through our conversations, we recognized that Data Rescue Boulder has a need to process large number of rescued data sets and store them in more permanent homes. We also recognized that Data Conservancy along with Open Science Framework have the software infrastructure to support such activities and bring a selective subset of the rescued data into our own institutional repository. We chose the subset of data based on a selection from one of the Johns Hopkins University faculty members.

This video shows how a Fedora-based institutional repository can be leveraged to provide preservation services for content stored within an OSF project. JHU has developed tools for exporting the business objects from the OSF as archival packages. When ingested into our institutional repository and represented as RDF linked data, repository services can reason about the content within OSF projects in support of preservation, data mining, and other value-add activities.