A distributed, cloud-ready, digital content processing and transformation platform and a specific use case

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

Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"

We present the JDistiller, available as open source software at https://code.google.com/p/jp2k-distiller/. JDistiller tackles the problem of processing, and transforming massive amounts of content, in a fast and efficient manner. JDistiller is a distributed platform where an arbitrary, dynamic number of worker nodes process and transform content, with the coordination of a managing node. The most important present use case is the transformation of born digital content, in order to become available as thumbnails and images over a page by page online reading platform, implemented with the DJatoka Image server platform and Internet Archive Book Reader. JDistiller is interoperable with the Open Journal System and the DSpace platform. Additional use cases, for problems that require massive transformation of content, can be implemented.