DRS, Delivery Services, & Digital Preservation Documentation
Links to guidelines, procedures, and other resources associated with the use of DRS, its delivery services, and Digitial Preservation.
| Resource title | Format(s) | Rev. date |
|---|---|---|
| DRS User Manual for Dataloading: | html | pdf | 05/02/09 |
| DRS Batch DTD | DTD | 04/23/10 |
| Base Metadata Elements (from DRS Load Manual) | html | 05/02/09 |
| Image Metadata Supplement (A data dictionary providing element-by-element descriptions of the <imagemetadata> block in the DRS DTD). |
07/15/08 | |
| Audio Metadata Supplement (A data dictionary providing element-by-element descriptions of the <audioMetadata> block in the DRS DTD). |
09/04/07 | |
| Important URLs for DRS Depositors | 11/03/10 | |
| Sample: simple batch | txt (xml) | 10/10/02 |
| Sample: large batch | txt (xml) | 10/10/02 |
| Sample: image batch | txt (xml) | 06/23/06 |
| Sample: text batch | txt (xml) | 10/10/02 |
| Sample: batch with relationships | txt (xml) | 10/10/02 |
| Sample: audio SMIL batch | txt (xml) | 01/23/06 |
| Resource title | Format(s) | Rev. date |
|---|---|---|
| For DRS 2 Beta documentation please see the DRS 2 iSite: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k34941 (restricted to Harvard staff) |
| Resource title | Format(s) | Rev. date |
|---|---|---|
| Batch Builder User Guide | html | 03/26/03 |
| DMart - DRS Audio Deposit Tool | html | |
| DRS Web Admin User Guide | html | pdf | 11/17/09 |
| Batch queue status (Test) | html | |
| Batch queue status (Prod) | html |
| Resource title | Format(s) | Rev. date |
|---|---|---|
| Online XML Validator (xmlvalid) | html | |
| XML specification (w3c) | html | |
| General XML resources (xml.org) | html | |
| XML parser for Java (xerces) | html | |
| XML parser for Perl (sp) | html |
| Resource title | Format(s) | Rev. date |
|---|---|---|
| MD5 specification RFC1321 | text | |
| MD5 library for Java (MessageDigest) | html | |
| MD5 library/module for Perl (CPAN module) | html | |
| MD5 Summer (Windows) A nice 3rd party freeware that allows you to checksum a single file or entire directory. |
html | |
| Fsum frontend (Windows)
Free open source advanced file integrity checker. The software supports checking individual checksum files (one checksum per .md5 file) as well combined checksum files (many checksums per .md5 file). |
html | |
| DRS md5 tool (Windows) A homegrown JAVA application. This tool requires the Java Runtime Environment (version 1.2 or later) installed on your machine. |
html | 08/27/04 |
| Macintosh applications (contact DRS Support.) |
| Resource title | Rev. date |
|---|---|
| Windows clients: | |
| WinSCP. A simple, free GUI client | |
| Putty. A simple, free client | |
| SSH Secure Shell. In the past -- an advanced free-for-non-comercial-use ssh/sftp client. The newest versions have been re-branded as SSH Tectia and are no longer free. The last free version can be downloaded from ftp.ssh.com | |
| FileZilla. Advanced free open source client | |
| Macintosh clients: | |
| sftp. A command-line utility from the Terminal | |
| Fugu. A graphical frontend to OSX sftp. | |
| lftp. Command-line file transfer program with job queueing. | |
| Transmit. Shareware Mac utility | |
| Cyberduck. GPL license. | |
| Fetch. Full-featured SFTP client for Mac OSX. Shareware. | |
| FileZilla. Advanced free open source client. |
| Resource title | Format(s) | Rev. date |
|---|---|---|
| DRS Overview 2011 (flyer) | 08/01/11 | |
| DRS 2 Orientation | PPT | 10/05/10 |
| DRS 2 | PPT | 05/03/12 |
| Digital Repository Service (DRS) | PPT | 04/27/10 |
| A Repository in Prose | PPT | 05/25/09 |
| Harvard's Digital Repository Architecture | PPT | 12/15/09 |