SobekCM’s Community Ecosystems & Socio-Technical Practices

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track, 24x7 Presentations

The session was recorded and is <a href="https://connectpro.helsinki.fi/p9osriydlgh/">available for watching</a> (this presentation starts at 0:32:00)

Academic research and cultural heritage institutions in the Caribbean—spanning over one million square miles of water, with hundreds of islands, many countries, and a multiplicity of languages and cultures—have long-standing collaborative relationships for preservation, access, and supporting scholarly activities. The real-world complexities of the Caribbean ecosystem led to collaborative creation of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC, www.dloc.com). The variety, complexity, and diversity of needs across dLOC’s many partners directly supported development of the SobekCM Open Source Software (http://sobekrepository.org). SobekCM developed in collaboration with dLOC’s institutional, scholarly, publishing, and other communities. For data needs, SobekCM is growing across new communities. Activities include collaboration with UF (dLOC Technical Host Partner) Research Computing and the Sunshine State Education & Research Computing Alliance (SSERCA) to integrate SobekCM as a front-end for high-performance and big data computing systems. This presentation will cover SobekCM’s socio-technical (people, policies, procedures) practices for supporting and connecting ecosystems with user-focused development with user communities from galleries, libraries, archives, museums, universities, scholarly groups, publishers, and others, all contributing to the system development, use, and integrated connections with other systems and activities. This includes SobekCM’s integration with rich data support through connection with research computing systems and communities.