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Session Convener: Kathryn Cassidy, Trinity College Dublin
Location:C119&121- Classrooms
Presentations
The IRD: Improving knowledge about the state of the repository system landscape through automated curation processes
Paul Walk
Antleaf Ltd., United Kingdom
The International Repositories Directory (IRD) will be launched at Open Repositories 2025. The
IRD will address concerns about repository metadata quality, including harvesting, de-
duplication, responsiveness checks, and platform identification.
This session will demonstrate the more technical aspects of this system, focussing on how the
metadata quality is maintained with a set of automated curation functions.
The session will conclude with a brief presentation of the improved dataset from the IRD,
showing a more positive picture of repository functionality worldwide - notably that OAI-OPMH
support is actually 67% rather than 50%.
Repository Insights with OpenSearch
Terrence W Brady
California Digital Library, United States of America
The Merritt Digital Preservation Repository consists of 6 java microservices and 1 ruby microservice. Each service operates as a high-availability service running on load-balanced instances. In 2023, the Merritt team adopted OpenSearch for consolidated logging across each of these instances. The migration to a consolidated logging solution produced benefits beyond the team's expectations.
This presentation will describe the Merritt team’s need for consolidated logging. Because the university has adopted AWS technologies, OpenSearch was a logical solution. The presentation will provide a brief overview of OpenSearch and an explanation of the distinction between OpenSearch and ElasticSearch. Once the team had published log records to OpenSearch, the team began to explore the data visualization capabilities of OpenSearch.
The creation of data visualizations enabled the team to proactively identify problems before users had reported them. Additionally, the visualization capabilities of OpenSearch were so attractive that the team has begun publishing aggregated data records to OpenSearch for visualization purposes.
Integrating Digital Repositories and Learning Management Systems using EduLink
Corey Halpin
University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America
Learning Management Systems have become ubiquitous in Higher Education and K-12, especially post-pandemic with the rise of remote and hybrid learning. This talk discusses the implementation and deployment of the new EduLink plugin for the Metavus digital collections platform, which leverages the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Deep Linking protocol to integrate digital repository materials seamlessly into LMSes. Metavus underpins ATE Central, the official information hub and archive for the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program, and the new EduLink plugin is being used to power STEMLink, a service institutions can use to incorporate ATE-developed STEM curriculum into their LMS courses. In addition to looking at the overarching issues posed by repository/LMS integration, specific techniques used to overcome challenges using LTI in the face of tracking prevention in modern browsers are discussed, and a demo of using STEMLink to add a lab activity to a Canvas course is provided.
