Outcomes DMQ4: Instruments SI1: Fedora DB SI3: Semantic Search for SRB CR2: Creative Commons CR3: Science Commons AA1: Individual Annotations AA2: Secure Annotations AA3: Collaborative Annotations DA3: Metadata Schema Registry Climatology Demonstrator SI1 (Summary) Overview Technologies Architecture Usage Demo Source Code

SI1: Fedora-SRB Database integration module

Fedora-SRB Database integration module was developed as part of the SI1 DART work package. The aim of the work package is to enable

Fedora to handle large datasets natively,
Exploring using Storage Resource Broker (SRB) as a backend storage manager for Fedora repository� &
Distributed data management using fedora.

Fedora-SRB database integration module provides fedora users with two new functions that were not available to existing Fedora users.

Fedora users can now disseminate data from diverse databases managed by SRB

Fedora users can now directly access large distributed non-repository datasets managed by SRB.

Integration of SRB at storage level of the repository is accomplished by using the "srbLowlevel" module developed for the DART project.

Technologies Used

Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is extended to handle large datasets natively (License: ECL)
SRB (Storage Resource Broker) manages datasets stored in a wide range of data stores (File Systems, Network, Databases etc) (License: BSD)

System Architecture

System Architecture

Usage Example

1. Create SQL Datastream

2. List of Datastreams

3. URL based deployment of Database results

Data Collection Application for DMQ4

Use case

Demo

Sample Digital Object with DB content (UQ internal only)

Source code and Documents

All source code is available in trac/SVN (UQ Internal only)

Download the FedoraDB module and source code (SVN snapshot, 7 March, 2007)
Installation and configuration guide