Accommodating Diverse Search Requirements over a Fedora Repository

@inproceedings{citeulike:2761705, abstract = {Fedora offers the flexibility to store all types of digital objects with any type of metadata. In the Fedora repository for Indiana University’s Digital Library Program, intended to serve both access and preservation needs, we store an increasing number of object types representing items ranging from scanned books to documentary photographs to three-dimensional puzzles. Other object types, including digital video and audio, are also on the horizon. In addition, we store objects representing more abstract concepts, such as a piece of sheet music for which various editions may have been scanned or an archival collection containing many component objects. Metadata useful for finding a given item may exist at any of these levels, and many items also contain searchable full text content. Besides simply having a wide variety of objects, collection purposes, access models, and user needs vary widely across the contents of the repository. With such diversity, the common ground between objects shrinks, as does the usefulness of a one-size-fits-all search solution. In this talk, we will cover strategies for managing such diverse and evolving discovery needs over a growing Fedora repository. We will discuss our experiences with existing tools as well as the design and justification for new tools that we have developed. With sustainability as one of our primary goals, we will discuss the technical and organizational challenges associated with the incremental process of providing useful and complete search and discovery access to our Fedora repository from within a variety of user environments.}, author = {Durbin, M. and Dunn, J. }, booktitle = {Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008}, citeulike-article-id = {2761705}, keywords = {digital\_objects, digital\_repositories, fedora, searching}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2008-05-06 16:29:48}, priority = {4}, title = {Accommodating Diverse Search Requirements over a Fedora Repository}, url = {http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/105/}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2761705 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2761705 TI - Accommodating Diverse Search Requirements over a Fedora Repository T2 - Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008 N2 - Fedora offers the flexibility to store all types of digital objects with any type of metadata. In the Fedora repository for Indiana University’s Digital Library Program, intended to serve both access and preservation needs, we store an increasing number of object types representing items ranging from scanned books to documentary photographs to three-dimensional puzzles. Other object types, including digital video and audio, are also on the horizon. In addition, we store objects representing more abstract concepts, such as a piece of sheet music for which various editions may have been scanned or an archival collection containing many component objects. Metadata useful for finding a given item may exist at any of these levels, and many items also contain searchable full text content. Besides simply having a wide variety of objects, collection purposes, access models, and user needs vary widely across the contents of the repository. With such diversity, the common ground between objects shrinks, as does the usefulness of a one-size-fits-all search solution. In this talk, we will cover strategies for managing such diverse and evolving discovery needs over a growing Fedora repository. We will discuss our experiences with existing tools as well as the design and justification for new tools that we have developed. With sustainability as one of our primary goals, we will discuss the technical and organizational challenges associated with the incremental process of providing useful and complete search and discovery access to our Fedora repository from within a variety of user environments. KW - digital_objects KW - digital_repositories KW - fedora KW - searching AU - Durbin, M AU - Dunn, J PY - 2008/04/1-4/ UR - http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/105/ ER -