Medusa provides a web-accessible management interface to preservation microservices built upon an enduring storage and management environment for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library\u2019s digital collections. Written in Ruby on Rails, Medusa has been in production since 2014. From 2014-2015 Medusa storage was hosted primarily on-site. In 2019, Medusa\u2019s web application and storage were shifted fully into cloud services.<\/p>\n
Access to the collection registry is restricted to digital content producers at the University of Illinois Library. Medusa only displays information about collections to authenticated, approved users.<\/p>\n
Medusa\u00a0production site<\/a><\/p>\n Medusa\u00a0test site<\/a>\u00a0(accessible to library staff)<\/p>\n To submit a general question, request training, or report a system outage, contact:\u00a0medusa-admin@lists.illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Please see\u00a0Managing Digital Collections: A Guide to Local Practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n Updated and improved documentation coming soon.<\/p>\n Coming soon.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., Bethany Anderson, Karl E. Germeck, Cameron C. Nielsen, Christopher J. Prom, and Tracy Popp. \u201cPreservation and Access for Born-Digital Electronic Records: The Case for an Institutional Digital Content Format Registry.\u201d The American Archivist 83, no. 2 (March 8, 2021): 397\u2013428.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17723\/0360-9081-83.2.397<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., and Scott D. Witmer. \u201cIdentifying Barriers to File Rendering in Bit-Level Preservation Repositories: A Preliminary Approach,\u201d October 3, 2016.\u00a0https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/91660<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., and Scott D. Witmer. \u201cFile Format Endangerment Data,\u201d April 21, 2016.\u00a0https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/89994<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., and Scott Witmer. \u201cAdvancing File Format Policymaking for Digital Preservation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,\u201d 2015.\u00a0https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/88770<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., Thomas Padilla, Tracy M. Popp, and Greer Martin. \u201c\u2018Data from \u201c\u2018Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis\u2019\u201d\u2019 | IDEALS.\u201d Dataset \/ spreadsheet, March 2014.\u00a0https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/47421<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., Thomas Padilla, Tracy M. Popp, and Greer Martin. \u201cDigital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis,\u201d 2013.\u00a0https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/46427<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rimkus, Kyle R., and Thomas G. Habing. \u201cMedusa at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A Digital Preservation Service Based on PREMIS.\u201d Proceedings of the 13th ACM\/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 23, 2013.\u00a0https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/45232<\/a>. [NOTE: This paper is outdated, as it represents abandoned plans to build Medusa using Fedora repository technologies).<\/b><\/p>\n Source code for the Medusa Digital Preservation Repository is available in the\u00a0Medusa Collection Registry<\/a>\u00a0repository on Github, along with related components available from the broader\u00a0Medusa Project<\/a>. The project maintains an ongoing\u00a0Change Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview Medusa provides a web-accessible management interface to preservation microservices built upon an enduring storage and management environment for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library\u2019s digital collections. Written in Ruby on Rails, Medusa has been in production since 2014. From 2014-2015 Medusa storage was hosted primarily on-site. In 2019, Medusa\u2019s web application and storage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/digital-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Contact<\/h2>\n
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