Functional Requirements Specification for Archival Asset Management: Identification and Integration of Essential Properties of Services-Oriented Architecture Products

Abstract

The complexity and size of geospatial data can constrain the capabilities of service providers and create risks to the long-term preservation and archiving of valuable information assets. While services-oriented architectures such as the Earth Data Analysis Center's Geographic Storage, Transformation and Retrieval Engine (GSToRE

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) facilitate increased use and impact of geospatial data by mitigating these complexities by development of dynamic applications and interfaces, such services can often be primarily focused on the maintenance and delivery of only the most current versions of geospatial data that may nonetheless possess significant historical, cultural, or scientific value. Actions and documentation required to assure long-term preservation may not be supported by existing business models or may be otherwise compromised. However, general purpose archives offer a preservation capability that is complementary to the value created by dynamic service providers. We present an overview of the features of GSToRE, and the DSpace

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repository platform and describe the requirements of a methodology for the harvest, quality assurance, and ingest of geospatial data into an institutional repository as a complement to the dynamic data access and visualization services provided by GSToRE and systems like it.

KEYWORDS:

• digital preservation
• geoarchiving
• institutional repositories
• services oriented architectures
• content transfer
• open standards

Notes

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³http://datapub.cdlib.org/2014/01/30/institutional-repositories-part-1/, http://datapub.cdlib.org/2014/02/20/institutional-repositories-part-2/

⁴http://www.opengeospatial.org/

⁵https://repository.unm.edu/

⁶http://www.ngda.org/

⁷http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

⁸http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml

⁹http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26020

¹⁰http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/

¹¹http://rgis.unm.edu

¹²http://www.nmepscor.org/data_portal/browse-data

¹³http://westernconsortium.org/

¹⁴https://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/GeoProfile

¹⁵National Science Foundation (Track 1 [Awards: 0447691, 0814449, 1301346] and Track 2 awards [0918635, 1329470])

¹⁶ACCESS-110018 NNX12AF52A

¹⁷supported by funding from FGDC in 2001 as part of their WebMap CAP solicitation

¹⁸http://catalog.data.gov

¹⁹http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=32557

²⁰http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

²¹http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/

²²documentation for available GSToRE services may be found at the GSToRE API documentation website - http://gstore.unm.edu/docs/index.html

²³https://www.dataone.org/what-dataone

²⁴https://www.cuahsi.org/About

²⁵http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/

²⁶http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

²⁷http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/

²⁸Stable: http://gstore.unm.edu/docs/stable.html & experimental: http://gstore.unm.edu/docs/experimental.html

²⁹http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/rids/Lists/CCSDS%206500P11/CCSDSAgency.aspx

³⁰http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd/applicationSchema.xsd

³¹http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39577

³²http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/metrics-assessing-and-certifying/iso16363

³³http://www.datasealofapproval.org/en/

³⁴http://www.data-audit.eu/

³⁵http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/

³⁶http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/gis.shtml

³⁷http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx

³⁸http://www.udfr.org/