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The Technology Division provides technical support to the activities and projects carried out by the Foundation. | The Technology Division provides technical support to the activities and projects carried out by the Foundation. | ||
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Currently [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki] is being used as the digital library software for Noolaham Digital Library. Mediawiki is being currently used because it is free, easy to use and maintain. However, considering our growing needs we are in the process of transitioning into a proper institutional repository software. | Currently [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki] is being used as the digital library software for Noolaham Digital Library. Mediawiki is being currently used because it is free, easy to use and maintain. However, considering our growing needs we are in the process of transitioning into a proper institutional repository software. | ||
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| + | There is backup and restore plan in inplace to ensure the Noolaham Foundation's long term preservation of its work from technical or other failures. The goal is to have robust mechanism to regularly backup all necessary work in multiple geographical locations and restore promptly when needed. | ||
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| + | Noolaham Digital Library consists of three main components: the data files (pdfs, html, images), the database with metadata, and the website. All three are backed on a weekly bases on three different geographical locations. | ||
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==Noolaham : Archiving and Preserving Technology == | ==Noolaham : Archiving and Preserving Technology == | ||
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Revision as of 17:10, 13 August 2011
The Technology Division provides technical support to the activities and projects carried out by the Foundation.
Contents
Digital Library Software
Currently Mediawiki is being used as the digital library software for Noolaham Digital Library. Mediawiki is being currently used because it is free, easy to use and maintain. However, considering our growing needs we are in the process of transitioning into a proper institutional repository software.
Currently Noolaham technical team is evaulating various digital library software for implimentation. The following features are identified as priorities:
- Multimedia support
- Meta-data
- File system
- Search
- Browsing
- Multilinqual support
- Scalability
- Extendability
- Easy of maintenance
- Software community
Backup
There is backup and restore plan in inplace to ensure the Noolaham Foundation's long term preservation of its work from technical or other failures. The goal is to have robust mechanism to regularly backup all necessary work in multiple geographical locations and restore promptly when needed.
Noolaham Digital Library consists of three main components: the data files (pdfs, html, images), the database with metadata, and the website. All three are backed on a weekly bases on three different geographical locations.
Noolaham : Hosting
Noolaham : Archiving and Preserving Technology
Noolaham : Equipment
