Data curation, archiving, and access with the Data Conservancy, Fedora, and Open Science Framework
Channel: Data Conservancy
Date: 2017-04-28

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 institution repository. We chose the subset of data based on a selection from one of the Johns Hopkins University faculty members.

This video shows one of the pathways, through which data could be brought into a Fedora-backed institutional repository using our tools and platforms. 

Data Conservancy screen cast demonstrating integration between the Data Conservancy Packaging Tool, the Fedora repository, and the Open Science Framework.  Resources referenced throughout the presentation are linked below.

DC Package Tool GUI
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* PTG GitHub release page: https://github.com/DataConservancy/dcs-packaging-tool
* BagIt IETF Draft Specification: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-14
* Data Conservancy Package Specification page: http://dataconservancy.github.io/dc-packaging-spec/

DC Package Ingest
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* Package Ingest release page: https://github.com/DataConservancy/dcs-package-ingest
* Fedora API Extension Architecture Home, GitHub, and Docker-based demo
  - Home: https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/7YEpB
  - GitHub: https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo-api-x
  - Docker-based demo: https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo-api-x-demo
* API-X funding provided by IMLS grant #LG-70-16-0076-16: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/LG-70-16-0076-16

Fedora OSF Storage Provider
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(under development as of April 2017)
* OSF feature/fedora-addon branch: https://github.com/DataConservancy/osf.io/tree/feature/fedora-addon
* Waterbutler fedora-provider branch: https://github.com/DataConservancy/waterbutler/tree/fedora-provider