OpenFIDYAggregator Overview

Ian IbbotsonKnowledge Integration Ltd

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FIDy Aggregator

A Domain Specific Configuration

Generic metadata aggregation and processing platform

More correctly a referetory than a repository

Used initially in cultural heritage and elearning sectors

National museums & Repositories of learning / Information locator content

Commonly used to support HackDays & Similar events

Open Source

Code released under AGPL

With some domain specific proprietary modules

Committer Rights – Meritocracy & Contributor Agreement

Product development funded by projects (2 TSB projects about to commence), dual licensing and support contracts

Platform Agnostic

Aggregator Roadmap (1)

Version 2 (Pure Java)Metadata Aggregation Platform

Maintenance – FIDy, CultureGrid

Subversion

Patched Apache SOLR

Aggregator Roadmap (2)

Version 3 (Hybrid Java, Groovy/Grails)Dev started summer 2010

Initial focus Semantic Web capabilities (4Store)

Metadata linking and augmentation (JISC FixRep)

Scriptable plugin development (Groovy)

Auto install plugins

Pending queues for errors and unknowns

Improvements to controlled vocabulary management

Platform Upgrades

GIT

Aggregator Migration & Upgrade

Via System InterfacesOAI and SWORD Deposit

.zip file of records sufficient

Account management an issue

Deposit Refelector for Parallel running

Repository Dump for Data security & Publishing

Summary

Open source Metadata publishing platform

Workflow for validation, augmentation, audit, and enhancement

2 year development plan

Distributed capabilities – Federated Networks

Highly configurable and scalable search engine

Open standards for open data

Data Licensing aware