title: Updating DAITSS - Transitioning to a web service architecture
creators: Randall Fischer Franco Lazzarino Carol Chou
abstract: The Florida Digital Archive (FDA) is a long-term preservation repository for the use of the libraries of the public universities of Florida. The FDA uses locally-developed software called DAITSS, which was designed to perform the major functions of Ingest, Archival Storage, Data Management and Dissemination in the OAIS reference model. A DAITSS 2 project is in process to re-write the application based on a distributed, Web services model. This paper describes the major changes in store for DAITSS 2.0, the rationale behind them, and the issues involved in their design and implementation. These changes include: moving from a monolithic to distributed processing environment; implementation of modular RESTful services; incorporation of existing tools, services, and registries; and revising the internal data model to be more conformant with the PREMIS data.
keywords: london