KORA: Open Source Digital Repository Platform for Cultural Heritage

There exists a startlingly wide variety of options for archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals seeking software and tools to store, preserve, and share digital archaeological data. The options range from commercial to non-commercial, proprietary to open source, and centralized to decentralized. It is within this context that this talk will introduce and discuss KORA, an open source digital repository platform originally designed to store, share, preserve, publish, and distribute cultural heritage content. Developed by Michigan State University’s MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, KORA has been used in a wide variety of cultural heritage digital library, archive, and repository projects over the past 10 years. This talk will introduce KORA as an ideal tool to store, preserve, publish, and share archaeological and cultural heritage data and content across the spectrum of archaeological settings. Ultimately, the goal of this talk is not to suggest KORA as the “one ring” of digital repository tools for archaeological content and data, quite the contrary. Instead, the goal is to place KORA within a rich diverse ecosystem of standards-based tools for archaeological data storage, preservation, sharing, and publication.

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1. KORA kora.matrix.msu.edu Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL REPOSITORY PLATFORM FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
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3. DSpace Fedora ePrints Greenstone DAITSS CONTENTdm umm, WordPress? DigiTool Moai Omeka FEZ IR+ VITAL Digital Commons Masterkey ArchivalWare @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
4. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 KORA kora.matrix.msu.edu
5. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 KORA! OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL REPOSITORY PLATFORM (ORIGINALLY) INTENDED FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE CONTENT DEVELOPED AT MATRIX kora.matrix.msu.edu
6. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 msu.edu
7. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 socialscience.msu.edu
8. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 matrix.msu.edu
9. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 KORA! OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL REPOSITORY PLATFORM (ORIGINALLY) INTENDED FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE CONTENT DEVELOPED AT MATRIX kora.matrix.msu.edu
10. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
11. FEATURES @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
12. OPEN SOURCE: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, V 2 SERVER: LINUX/UNIX (WILL ALSO RUN ON WINDOWS SERVER) REQUIREMENTS: PHP 5.1.3 OR GREATER & MYSQL 5.0.3 OR GREATER @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 kora.matrix.msu.edu ARCHITECTURE KORA
13. FLEXIBLE METADATA SETUP: ANY METADATA SCHEME METADATA SCHEME CAN VARRY ACROSS PROJECTS WITHIN SAME KORA INSTALL TEI, VRA CORE, DARWIN CORE, CDWA, DUBLIN CORE, METS... @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 kora.matrix.msu.edu METADATA KORA SUPPORTS PRESERVATION METADATA
14. POWERFUL ASSOCIATOR TOOL THAT ALLOWS FLEXIBLE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY ASSOCIATION FUNCTIONS WITHIN REPOSITORIES AND ACROSS REPOSITORIES IN THE SAME KORA INSTALL @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 kora.matrix.msu.edu ASSOCIATION KORA
15. ROBUST SEARCHING WITHIN PROJECTS FEDERATED SEARCHING ACROSS PROJECTS WITHIN THE SAME KORA INSTALL APACHE SOLR FOR INDEXING AND FAST (FACETED) SEARCHING @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 kora.matrix.msu.edu SEARCHING & INDEXING KORA
16. EXPORT DATA (ENTIRE DATA SET OR SPECIFIC SUBSET) AS STRUCTURED XML IMPORT STRUCTURED XML (ZIPPED FILED, INDIVIDUAL FILE, OR MULTIPLE FILES IN FOLDER) IMPORTED XML IS PARSED & USER SETS HOW IMPORTED DATA IS MAPPED TO EXISTING METADATA SCHEME @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 kora.matrix.msu.edu DATA PORTABILITY KORA
17. BUILD OUTWARD FACING WEBSITES WITH SIMPLE PHP HOOKS URI GENERATION FOR ANY OBJECT WITHIN THE REPOSITORY OAI-PMH TO EXPOSE STRUCTURED METADATA (LOW- BARRIER MECHANISM FOR REPOSITORY INTEROPERABILITY) @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 kora.matrix.msu.edu PUBLICATION KORA
18. KORA PROJECTS @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
19. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 quiltindex.org
20. 40 INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, ETC. > 70,000 QUILTS IN THE REPOSITORY EACH WITH AS MANY AS 274 UNIQUE PIECES OF METADATA > 10,000 PIECES OF QUILT EPHEMERA IN THE REPOSITORY (BOOKLETS, PUBLISHED PATTERNS, DIARIES) EACH WITH AS MANY AS 40 UNIQUE PIECES OF METADATA > 11,000 UNIQUE VISITORS TO QUILTINDEX.ORG EVERY MONTH @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 quiltindex.org
21. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 slavebiographies.org
22. @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 slavebiographies.org DOCUMENTS FROM MULTIPLE NATIONAL SOURCES: FRENCH (1719-1769), SPANISH (1770-1803), AND EARLY AMERICAN (1804-1820) CORE OF > 100,000 RECORDS (INDIVIDUALS) EACH WITH AS MANY AS 100 UNIQUE PIECES OF METADATA PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE ESTATE INVENTORIES, PROBATE DOCUMENTS, & SALES NOT INVOLVING PROBATE DOCUMENTING THE MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGH SPACE & OVER TIME & QUANTIFYING KINSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS
23. ROADMAP @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
24. PLUGIN BASED ARCHITECTURE TO REDUCE SOFTWARE BLOAT, ENCOURAGE OPEN SOURCE DEV, & GROW FEATURES DATABASE AGNOSTICISM RADICAL RE-ARCHITECTING TO FACILITATE MUCH LARGER DATASETS AND FASTER SEARCHING UX CHANGES THAT ALLOW USER CUSTOMIZATION @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 MOBILE TOOLS, IMPROVE TRUSTED DIGITAL ARCHIVE TOOLS, 3RD PARTY PLATFORM FUNCTIONALITY kora.matrix.msu.edu
25. PUNCHLINE? @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
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28. silos = bad (a grain solo, just in case you didn’t know) @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
29. OPEN @captain_primate | #FAIMS12
30. Dude, the open web is AWESOME! Trust me! @captain_primate | #FAIMS12 OPEN WEB
31. CULTURE OF SHARING
32. QUESTIONS? Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate FIN