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DLCM Backend

DLCM Technology
Switzerland
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Launched: 2017
Record Updated: Dec 09, 2024
Archive information management system
Digital preservation system
DLCM-Backend is the backend part of the DLCM technology, an archiving solution based on the OAIS model (ISO 14721) and compliant with FAIR principles & Open Science requirements for research data.
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Mission

The DLCM solution offers a solution to preserve research data by respecting the best practices of archiving (OAIS, BagIt, PREMIS,...) and the requirements of research funding agencies (FAIR principles, DOI, Open Data, Open Science, Data sensitivity). An other key value of the technology is to be researcher-centric. The user experience of the web portal was designed to facilitate the life of the researcher to minimize the time and the effort to upload dataset.

Key Achievements

The main new features of the technology are:
1) Auto-documente file format information in the archive without any effort of the user. This feature addressed by a pre-ingestion workflow.
2) Archive Metadata Update: the user could update/complete/change/fix the metadata of the archive to have a dataset description up-to-date.
3) Data sensitivity: the technology offers the capability to manage dataset with sensitive data. The user interface with the research to characterize/describe the level of data sensitivity with data tag. Then, the solution manages the access to the archive based on the sensitivity with a data usage agreement and a second factor of authentication, if necessary.

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented
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Technical Documentation

Implemented
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Code License

Implemented
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Open API

Implemented
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Open Data Statement

In Progress

Open Product Roadmap

In Progress

Technical Attribute Statements

Programming Languages

  • java
  • python

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

  • GNU General Public License (GPL)

Content Licensing

  • Other
Configurable & customized, based on research need

Standards

Metadata

  • DataCite metadata schema
  • Dublin Core
  • Hypertext Application Language (HAL)
  • JSON
  • METS
  • OAI-PMH
  • REST
  • XML Exchange Table Model Document Type Definition

Persistent Identifier

  • ORCiD
  • Research Organization Registry
Other:
DOI

Preservation

  • OAIS
  • OCFL
Other:
BagIt, OCFL in the roadmap

Hosting Options

  • Through third party vendor only

Service Providers

https://olos.swiss/

Integrations

  • DataCite
  • OpenCitations

Additional Information

Organizational History

- 2015-2018: The first phase was the DLCM project which allows to develop the prototype of the solution
- 2018-2020: The second phase with DLCM 2.0 allows to finalize the development of the solution with the backends (server part) and the user web portal (client part)
- 2019: first implementation of DLCM solution at University of Geneva with Yareta service
- 2021: second implementation of DLCM solution with the SaaS offer OLOS.swiss
- 2024: third implementation at ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Fiscal sponsorship (academic institution)

Full-time Staff

1-5

Volunteers

1-5

Current Affiliations

University of Geneva (https://www.unige.ch/)
HEG, HES-SO (https://www.hesge.ch/heg/en)
UNIFR (https://www.unifr.ch/home/en/)
BFH (https://www.bfh.ch/en/)
OLOS (https://olos.swiss/)

Funding

Primary Funding Source

  • Program service revenue

Funding Needs

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