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Investigating the Feasibility of Digital Repositories in Private Clouds

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Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future (ICADL 2019)

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Installing and configuring a digital repository toolkit for an organisation is a non-trivial task for which many organisations now seek external third-party service providers. Some of these service providers offer a cloud-hosted environment. However, universities increasingly have such cloud infrastructure in-house to support internal systems, and to maintain control and custody of data and systems. This study investigated the feasibility of using a private cloud internal to an organisation for the management of digital repositories. The results show that private cloud environments can run institutional repositories with negligible performance degradation as the number of virtual machine instances in the cloud are increased. A usability study of the prototype tool received positive feedback. Participants in the study were able to install and customise their own DSpace repositories.

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This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant numbers: 85470 and 105862) and University of Cape Town. The authors acknowledge that opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are that of the authors, and that the NRF accepts no liability whatsoever in this regard.

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Lumpa, M., Suleman, H. (2019). Investigating the Feasibility of Digital Repositories in Private Clouds. In: Jatowt, A., Maeda, A., Syn, S. (eds) Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future. ICADL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11853. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_15

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