iSchool: College of Information Science & Technology
Shared Data Management A simple example of sharing is using a public library instead of your personal home library. In addition to having access to countless books, there are preservation responsibilities that that need to be addressed. The topic covered in this paper is electronic sharing, where one website could be considered a “personal library”, while the “public one” is replaced by so called an iRODS Server, which is an open source data management software. Therefore, the iRODS Server’s job is to share data among more people and organizations also referred as contributor entities. This paper focuses on improving access to data management tools and providing data translation capabilities to make data more accessible to the public. The focus is engineering data used for engineering education and product modeling (CIBER-U). Initially, it was all stored in a publically accessible MediaWiki website. The first step was to separate the data from the web interface which ends up becoming a contributor to iRODS. In the second phase, the goal is to integrate a new capability with iRODS that converts the 3D data. The final goal, the contributor system, is up and running already, whereas the conversion utility is being developed. This process is important in projects where multiple contributors are using different software tools.
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Ioa n-Alexa ndru Nedelcu COE Computer Science
Dr . W illia m Regli Faculty Mentor iSchool
Poster Session A