RODA

Development site of the Repository of Authentic Digital Objects project.

In mid 2006, the Portuguese National Archives launched a project called RODA – Repository of Authentic Digital Objects – aiming at identifying and bringing together all the necessary technology, human resources and political support to carry out long-term preservation of digital materials. As part of the original goals of the project, RODA was the development of a digital repository capable of ingesting, managing and providing continuous access to various types of digital objects produced by national public institutions.

The end result was a powerful repository able to ingest and preserve text documents, images, video, audio and relational databases in many different formats. RODA automatically normalizes ingested data to preservation formats; implements a powerful and extensible preservation event scheduling mechanism; includes various data viewers for all supported representations; offers advanced user management and control; provides statistics; and much more.

Additionally, the repository is supported by open-source technologies (Fedora Commons, JBoss, Web services, etc.) and is based on existing standards such as OAIS, EAD, METS and PREMIS. To experience RODA, please visit the demo site (http://roda.di.uminho.pt/) where you can:

• Login as consumer to browse and search documents;
• Login as producer to send new documents to be ingested;
• Login as archivist to check documents conformity, accept/reject submitted documents, create and manage collections, change object permissions and much more;
• Login as administrator to gain access to user management, task management, global statistics and reports, search logs, etc.

Adicional services

KEEP SOLUTIONS is a portuguese company that provides the following services on RODA:

• Installation: Hardware and software installation for a production level solution, with customization of the interfaces to your own design and graphical identity.
• Maintenance: Hardware and software maintenance of the solution for any problem that might appear
• Support: Develop new features in RODA by request
• Training: Training sessions for RODA administrators, archivists and producers

For further information please contact info@keep.pt or http://www.keep.pt.

• Homepage: http://roda.di.uminho.pt