Digital repository as a service: automatic deployment of an Invenio-based repository using TOSCA orchestration and Apache Mesos

Repository as a Service (RaaS)

Introduction In his oft-quoted seminal paper 'Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure For Scholarship In The Digital Age' Clifford Lynch (2003) described the Institutional Repository as " a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. " This pa...

RODA and Crib : A Service-Oriented Digital Repository

In 2006 the Portuguese National Archives (DirectorateGeneral of the Portuguese Archives) engaged in the development of an OAIS compatible digital repository system for long-term preservation of digital material. Simultaneously, at the University of Minho a project called CRiB was being devised which aimed at the development of a wholesome set of services to aid digital preservation. Among those...

Service portfolio management: A repository-based framework

The paper discusses a framework for managing and evaluating ICT-enabled service portfolios along the service design phase. The framework adopts a service reuse perspective and it is made up of i) a model for the representation of a repository of services, ii) a model for the definition of a service portfolio representing current production lines of a service provider organization, iii) a set of...

and Digital Asset Repository

Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository