We have been hard at work deploying OpenAthens integrations with DSpace for the National Health Service. OpenAthens is a centralized identity and access control mechanism provided by Eduserv, moving identities to cloud so that users can log in with the same details across multiple web applications and sites. We have recently completed the successful deployment…
We are pleased to announce that KnowledgeArc has been selected to host and manage the DSpace-CRIS installation for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) which is called Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS).
Many application and SaaS hosts pitch a no fuss, easy to use, up-to-date hosted archive. However, most customers who sign up for these services don’t plan for what will happen when they no longer wish to use the services of their existing host. We’ve experienced customers who have tried to migrate away only to find…
We are proud to announce the official release of our new hosting service, The KnowledgeArc Platform. The KnowledgeArc Platform uses a combination leading open source technologies to provide a fast, scalable, low-cost infrastructure for running various applications including DSpace and Solr. Services are containerized for fast deployment and upgrades, resulting in greatly reduced downtime even…
Investigating ownership and role-based access in KnowledgeArc.Network Ethereum archiving contracts.
The concept of embargoing in the digital asset management world consists of making an item private until a particular point in time. There are various reasons for doing this. Maybe only select users are allowed to view the material for a particular amount of time; there may be a paywall, whereby only paying customers may…
In the post Ethereum as a Decentralized Archive we developed a simple item contract for archiving. The item held the hash of a file along with metadata describing the file. What we now need is a way to view an item contract on the Ethereum network. The easiest way is to display the item in…
Ethereum is a powerful computer which uses the blockchain for processing and storing information in a decentralized way. Applications, known as smart contracts, are executed on the blockchain and the cost of interacting with these applications is baked into the price. Ethereum may not be the only decentralized computer but it is the most well…
The metadata asset time stamping token Po.et has been officially accepted into the WordPress directory. https://wordpress.org/plugins/po-et/ KnowledgeArc assisted Po.et in finalising the plugin to be accepted into the WordPress directory. Read more about the exciting Po.et project at https://www.po.et/
KnowledgeArc is excited to announce the 1.0.0 Alpha release of our Po.et plugin for Drupal. The Po.et plugin publishes Drupal content to the Po.et ledger via the Frost API and ensures the ownership of a content creator’s work is cemented on the blockchain forever. The Drupal Po.et plugin is available for download at https://github.com/knowledgearcdotorg/drupal-poet-module/releases and…