Projects

Franklin universe

• Purpose: Our customized Blacklight catalog and portal to library resources
• Technical contact: Michael Gibney
• Stakeholder contact: Discovery team
• Status: in production with active development
• Components: discovery_app, deploy-discovery, library-solr-schema, solrplugins, blacklight_ris, summon-proxy, passenger_docker

Colenda universe

• Purpose: Our customized Samvera/Fedora repository with preservation features for digital assets and a basic front-end
• Technical contact: Carla Galarza
• Stakeholder contact: Digital Penn team
• Status: in production with active development
• Components: bulwark, colenda_config, phalt, openn_up, guardian, guardian_manifest, splitter, colenda_cantaloupe, colenda_backup_scripts, bulwark_solr, fcrepo_dev, passenger_docker

Alma universe

• Purpose: Our library management system, which is hosted in the cloud, however, we run software to support various ancillary processes
• Technical contact: Katherine Schultz, Mike Kanning
• Stakeholder contact: [alma team?]
• Status: licensed, in production
• Components: alma-webhook, almabulk, grima_config, blacklight_alma, ezwadl, courseres_alma

Library website

• Purpose: This is our informational, public-facing website
• Technical contact: Nikitas Tampakis
• Stakeholder contact: Mary Ellen Burd
• Status: in production with active development
• Components: pennlib

MetriDoc

• Purpose: Our platform for data aggregation and analysis, also used with the Ivies+
• Technical contact: John Kiser/Neomind Labs
• Stakeholder contact: Joe Zucca/Andy Sarno
• Status: in production, intermittent development as needed
• Components: docker_jenkins_docker_client

OPenn

• Purpose: Platform that allows direct and programmatic access to highest quality, public domain digitizations
• Technical contact: Doug Emery
• Stakeholder contact: ?
• Status: in production
• Components: openn-guardian-queuing, openn-genizah

Dockerized Omeka

• Purpose: Run multiple Omeka sites efficiently
• Technical contact: tbd
• Stakeholder contact: Dennis Mullen
• Status: in production
• Components:
• Themes: omeka_classic, upennlib_sc_shadowpage_bootstrap, upennlib_default, upennlib_emiglio, upenn_kislak_shadowpage

DLA

• Purpose: Generalized software for displaying, indexing, and faceting digital collections. En route to deprecation.
• Technical contact: Michael Gibney
• Stakeholder contact: Depends on project. OLAC: Lauris Olson. Print at Penn & Penn in Hand: Mitch Fraas. Finding Aids sites: Holly Mengel.
• Status: looking for alternative destinations for all content still in these systems
• Components: [I am not sure which are still active]

Suma

• Purpose: For tracking use of physical spaces in the library
• Technical contact: tbd
• Stakeholder contact: Andy Sarno
• Status: used intermittently, not during COVID-19
• Components:

Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts

• Purpose: Provenance database for manuscripts
• Technical contact: Doug Emery
• Stakeholder contact: Lynn Ransom
• Status: in production
• Components: sdbmss

franklinforms

• Purpose: Workflows for users to get from catalog records to fulfillment systems like ILLiad with their request info prepopulated.
• Technical contact: Mike Kanning
• Stakeholder contact: Sheila Ketchum
• Status: in production, cleanup underway

Kalendarium

Matomo

• Purpose: Platform for web statistics that better protects user privacy
• Technical contact: Nikitas Tampakis
• Stakeholder contact: tbd, possibly Joe Zucca
• Status: experiment

Utilities

• Purpose: These are freestanding scripts that accomplish various tasks but are not necessarily limited to being used in a single project

Metadata utilities

• marmite, marmite_harvest: Mike Kanning
• xmlaminar: Michael Gibney
• pqc_arks: ?
• marc_to_mods
• ezid_manager

Devops utilities

ots_service

• Purpose: Gem for creating user accounts in Rails applications, transferring secrets using OneTimeSecret
• Technical contact:
• Status: unused

docker_jenkins_docker_client

• Purpose: Dockerized Jenkins application with Docker client installed
• Technical contact: Andrew Kimball
• Status: in production

aws_utils

• Purpose: This is a collection of scripts for working with AWS.
• Technical contact: Andrew Kimball
• Status: unknown, presumed used as needed

docker_ansible

• Purpose: Docker image for running Ansible commands and playbooks; primarily used for running projects locally.
• Technical contact: Andrew Kimball
• Status: in production

stronghold

• Purpose: The stronghold gem provides a simple workflow for interfacing with Glacier through fog-aws
• Technical contact:
• Status: in production (guardian)

icemelt

• Purpose: Sinatra application that mimics the AWS Glacier API
• Technical contact:
• Status: used for testing in stronghold

passenger_docker

• Purpose: Fork of phusion/passenger-docker builds a docker image with Ruby installed using rbenv instead of rvm
• Technical contact: Andrew Kimball
• Status: in production (Bulwark and Discovery)

Other utilities

image_format_converter

• Purpose: Script to convert images of a specified format in a specified location into another specified format, in a secondary specified location
• Technical contact: Jie Li/Andrew Kimball
• Status: in production/used as needed

solr_compressed_string_dv

• Purpose:
• Technical contact: Michael Gibney
• Status:

hathi_process

• Purpose: Scripts to orchestrate HathiTrust content package generator and delivery.
• Technical contact: Jie Li/Andrew Kimball
• Status: in production/used as needed