Ontario Library Research Cloud Building A ProvinceWide Research
Ontario Library Research Cloud: Building A Province-Wide Research Cloud for Ontario’s Academic Libraries Pascal V. Calarco, University of Waterloo IGe. LU 2015 September 3, 2015
Agenda • • OCUL Overview Problem we’re trying to solve Funding and project plan Technology overview Some likely use cases Next steps Q&A
Ontario Council of University Libraries • 21 member libraries • 420, 000 students • Collaboration in: – Shared electronic collections – Planning & assessment – Digital library services & infrastructure
Libraries’ Growing Storage Needs • Digitized physical materials: books, journals, film, audio – Reformatting to conserve original eg. Acidic paper such as newspapers – Reformatting to increase access eg. Rare materials – Format migration to preserve content eg. 16 mm film
Libraries Growing Storage Needs • Born digital scholarly content for long term stewardship: – E-Theses and supplemental material – Scholarship: Working papers, Pre-prints, Open Access – Research data: numeric, geospatial, image, audio – Websites and digital ephemera of academic interest – Donated electronic materials for Special Collections • John English’s hard drives of personal email correspondence, drafts and other materials
OCUL Storage Survey (2013) • 10 of 21 institutions responded; six >10 k FTE, 4 smaller than 10 k • Preservation & Access Needs: – 80%: digitized print content – 80%: faculty publications – 60%: donated digital content – 50%: research data – 50%: GIS data – 40%: purchased digital resources – 20%: corporate records – 20%: E-Theses
OCUL Survey: Storage Needs • Current storage requirements: 100 GB 30 TB; total of respondents: 58. 5 TB • Expected storage needs, next 2 -3 years: – 20% 100 TB+ – 40% 10 TB-100 TB – 20% >10 TB – 250 TB total for all 10 institutions
OCUL Survey: Storage Provisioning • 80% partner with campus IT often/mostly • 60% provision in-house often/mostly • 40% provision with other partner libraries often/mostly • 30% provision with commercial services often/mostly
OCUL Storage Survey: Top Features (2013) • • • Large storage on demand Low cost Canadian-based hosting Transparent pricing Archival quality storage
Storage Architectures and Cost Tiers
Cloud storage options • Amazon S 3/Glacier: $500 k/year for current 250 TB SP content – $2000/TB per year, recurring • Dura. Cloud: Amazon reseller, adding preservation & mgmt. tools – $1000 -$1500/TB per year, recurring • Private Cloud: Open. Stack – $280 -$350/TB per year, amortized over three years
MTCU Proposal and PIF funding • 2013/2014: OCUL was awarded $1. 2 million Productivity and Innovation Fund (PIF) funding for OLRC startup • 50 TB per founding partner institution • Triplestore preservation: content copies at three different co-located nodes for redundancy, error correction • Text mining portal for stored Scholars. Portal content
Hardware configuration • Dell selected as hardware vendor. • Head units: Dell Power Edge R 720 xd server populated with two 2. 8 GHz Xeon processors, 256 GB of RAM, and two 200 GB SSD drives which will be used to run the operating system and the Open. Stack software. Each head unit also contains twelve 4 TB SAS drives for an internal storage capacity of 48 TB. • Storage shelves: Dell Power. Vault MD 1200 storage shelves, directly attached to the server, with each shelf containing twelve 4 TB SAS drives, with a total capacity per shelf of 48 TB. • Total initial capacity 3. 6 PB raw, triple-redundant, 1. 2 PB net
Open. Stack • • An open source cloud computing platform, primarily deployed as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaa. S) platform Swift – Open. Stack object store, store and retrieve data via API Integrate Open. Stack/Swift to Digital Repository architectures Develop Dropbox-like cloud storage web interface
Use Cases • • • Digital Preservation Institutional and Personal Storage Repositories Research Data Management Text mining large volumes of digital textual content for research purposes
Digital Curation
Fedora Commons • Open source digital object repository, that is the underlying architecture behind Islandora, Hydra, and other digital asset management systems.
DSpace • An open source turnkey institutional repository software for building open access repositories for scholarly and published digital content.
Archivematica & ICAto. M • An open source digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long term access to collections of digital objects.
Dataverse • An open source web application for publishing, citing, analyzing and preserving research data. • Research data management focus • Access not preservation
Text Mining • Potential uses by researchers in Digital Humanities: – Entity recognition – Parts of speech analysis – Topic modeling – Network analysis – Visualization
Canadian Text Archive Centre • Phase 2 development – Leverage OCUL Scholars. Portal text corpus of books and journals for academic research – CTAC Advisory Committee being formed – Tools and service development for students and researchers to create worksets of documents from content in the OLRC – Bring “analysis to the data” – June 2015 – May 2016
Current Status & Milestones • October 2014: integration with Archivematica • December 2014: integration with Data. Verse • Q 1 2015: Storage Nodes finalized; installation of Waterloo/Guelph/Laurier node • March 2015: integration with Fedora Commons • May 2015: Third Hackfest, Text Mining Portal • June 2015: integration with DSpace • Fall 2015: Canadian Text Archive Centre Advisory Committee
Thanks! Questions? • Pascal Calarco, University of Waterloo Library pvcalarco@uwaterloo. ca
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