Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
The PDS component provides preservation storage
functionality. It is preservation-aware and OAIS
compliant. It handles the ingest, access and preservation of
AIPs, while supporting the long term readability and
understandability of the preserved data. It handles the
Fixity calculations on the AIPs and updates the
Provenance and Fixity documentations up-to-date. For
more details see PDS description.
The PDS interfaces and web client source code can be
found on CASPAR SVN and SourceForge
PDS server deployment package can be found on
CASPAR SVN and are published on alphaWorks for
public download.
Component description
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PDSManager - defines basic OAIS preservation
functions
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PDSPdiManager - defines functions that manipulate
PDI
•
PDSRepInfoManager - defines RepInfo management
functions
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PDSMigrationManager - defines functions to support
migration
Component interfaces
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PDSPackagingManager - defines packaging
management functions
•
PDSIntegratedManager - defines functions to
implement when PDS is integrated with existing
system
See
http://www.alliancepermanentaccers.org/caspar/
implementation/CASPAR_PDS_INTERFACES_1_1.
doc
Component artefacts
See PDSWebServices.wsdl
See UML diagrams in
http://wiki.casparpreserves.eu/pub/
Main/TaskId2201/
CASPAR
_PDS_INTERFACES_1_1.doc
Component UML diagram
See PDS refined specification in
http://wiki.
casparpreserves.eu/pub/Main/TaskId2201/
CASPAR
_PDS_INTERFACES_1_1.doc
See PDS Java docs at
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/caspar/
implementation/CASPAR_PDSJAVADOCS_Dec_10_
2008.zip
Component specification
Component author
IBM (Israel)
For PDS interfaces and client code - Apache Public
License (APL), that is compatible with GPL3.
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