2. About DRI (http://www.dri.ie/)
● DRI is an interactive trusted digital repository for
contemporary and historical, social and cultural
data held by Irish institutions
● Exchequer funded; HEA PRTLI 5, €5.2M
● RIA (lead), NUIM, TCD, DIT, NUIG, NCAD
● Partners: academic, cultural, social, government
● Duration - Sep 2011 – Sep 2015
3. Objectives
● Trusted Digital Repository (TDR)
○ Provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources
Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
ISO16363 Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) Checklist
Certification (DSA)
● Central internet access point
o Interactive multimedia tools
8. OpenNebula
● Open-source IaaS
○ Private cloud
o Hybrid cloud support
Lightweight
o Management interface
o VM hosts
o Storage
Community support
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9. Development Practices
● Communication
○ ‘Stand-ups’
○ Teleconference
○ Face-to-Face
● Collaboration
○ Issue tracking
○ Version control
○ Continuous integration
● Consistent environment
○ Virtualisation
10. Development Environment
● Development scaffold
○ Automated
○ Repeatable
● Production like environment
○ OS
○ Package versions
● System dependencies
○ Fedora
○ Solr
○ Redis/Resque
○ MySQL
○ Ceph S3
○ Passenger
○ ClamAV, ffmpeg….
11. Deployment
● Local test suite
○ Cucumber/RSpec
● Continuous integration
○ Automated build and test
● Deployment
○ Automated with Ansible
○ Development/production
13. Operations
● Preservation and disaster recovery
○ File fixity
○ Replication
● Auditing
○ Security (authorisation and authentication)
○ Malware scanning
○ Characterization
● DOIs
○ Minting, Takedowns, Updates
● User support
14. Issues
● Translating requirements to specification
○ Maintaining Cucumber steps
● Initial stakeholder interaction
● Hydra rapid development
● Institutional networking restrictions
● RHEL (rvm/ruby, ceph, haproxy...)
● Performance issues
○ Many moving parts
15. Questions?
Team
● TCD - Jimmy Tang, Kathryn Cassidy, Peter Tiernan, Stuart Kenny
● NUIM - Damien Gallagher, Sinéad Redmond
● DIT - Eoin Kilfeather, Monica Harasimiuk, Anna Deegan