Brief high level pres of the modules composing the OpenFIDY (Family Information Directory) distribution
- 1. OpenFIDY Architectural Overview of FIDY Modules Ian Ibbotson
Knowledge Integration Ltd This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
2. FIDY Background
- FIDY Distribution - domain specific configuration of a general
purpose metadata aggregator platform
3. With some extra services 4. FIDY Modules Overview
- FIDY Distribution composed of five primary modules, and one
optional one
5. Index The Search Engine 6. Terminology Access to controlled
vocabs 7. SOAP Soap specific deposit (DPP-RESTLike) 8. SRU
Standards compliant Search API 9. VMG Vocabulary Bank Optional
Controlled Terminology Management. 10. Package Dependencies 11.
FIDY Modules (1/6) DPP Data Provider Portal
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- Interface between LA's (Or Vendors acting as intermediaries)
and the Aggregator
- 12. The Upload interface
13. Knows about FIDY specifics like ECDs and FSDs 14.
Orchestrates other services on deposit 15. Essentially a workflow
controller 16. FIDY Extensions for management and domain specifics
17. FIDY Modules (2/6) Index Service
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- Patched and extended Apache SOLR
- 18. Fixes for Spatial Searching (based on Jteam variant)
19. Configuration for Master/Slave load balancing 20. Also holds
FIDY Gazetteer 21. FIDY Modules (3/6) Terminology Service
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- Simple interface to access controlled terminology and term
counts for each term
- 22. Simplified form of Vocabulary Bank Service
23. FIDY Modules (4/6) SOAP Service
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- DPP Has a REST-like deposit interface, easy to use via
curl
- 24. SOAP Service provides a more traditional enterprise access
point for metadata deposit.
25. FIDY Modules (5/6) SRU
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- Search / Retrieve via URL
- 26. Standards based search protocol
27. Easily integrated with many existing systems 28. Flexible
Query Language 29. FIDY Modules (6/6) Vocabulary Management
BANK
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- Not open source, but fully integrated
- 30. Very useful for managing controlled terminologies
31. Exploring and Navigating Structures 32. Useful for
Investigating vocabulary issues and browsing / editing / managing
33. FIDY - ISPP-Web-Assembly
- Draws all these modules together in a .zip distribution which
can be unpacked and run
34. Primary output of the FIDY Build Process 35. Contains a
default working configuration 36.
- Questions, Suggestions, Help Requests
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37. Web :Http://www.k-int.com 38. Email : Info at k hypen int
dot com 39. The End
- Setting up an OpenFIDY dev environment.
40. Unpacking, Configuring and Running an OpenFIDY
aggregator.
