CLOCKSS Technology

STATUS UPDATE, November 2014: Dryad's content is not currently being replicated through the CLOCKSS network. A CLOCKSS working group is developing a new and separate set of guidelines for databases; when these are in place, it may be possible for Dryad to enter into a new agreement with CLOCKSS.

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Dryad's content will be replicated through the CLOCKSS network.

CLOCKSS will crawl the Dryad site and harvest publicly-viewable content. Data files will only be replicated in CLOCKSS once any embargo has expired.

Manifest Pages

Each quarter, Dryad publishs a set of manifest pages that list content newly available in Dryad.

There is a command line process that generates a manifest page. The manifest page will be a static page. It will contain links to all "new" data packages. A new data package is a package that meets at least one of the following conditions:

• The package was archived since the previous manifest page was generated.
• The package, or one of its constituent files, was modified since the previous manifest page was generated.
• At least one file in the package has come out of embargo status since the previous manifest page was generated.
• A new version of the package has become available since the previous manifest page was generated.

To generate a new manifest page:

/opt/dryad/bin/generate-sitemaps

A summary manifest page is available from http://datadryad.org/htmlmap. This page contains a link to each of the individual manifest pages previously generated.

if-modified-since behavior

Dryad pages respond to HTTP requests that use the if-modified-since header. A summary of the possible request types and responses:

• request for valid Dryad page, without if-modified-since header: 200 OK with page content
• request for non-existent Dryad page, without if-modified-since header: 404 Not Found with possible page content
• request for valid Dryad page, using if-modified-since header that has date earlier than page modification date: 200 OK with page content
• request for valid Dryad page, using if-modified-since header that has date later than page modification date: 304 Not Modified without page content
• request for non-existent Dryad page, using if-modified-since header (with any date): 404 Not Found with possible page content

To test the if-modified-since behavior, use a command like:

curl --silent --head  --header 'If-Modified-Since: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:31:10 GMT'  http://localhost:2222/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.7d6k3

Relation to DSpace

Dryad has implemented the CLOCKSS manifest pages as a modification to DSpace's normal sitemap/htmlmap feature. The relevant classes are:

• dspace/modules/api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/sitemap/HTMLSitemapGenerator.java
• dspace/modules/api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/sitemap/GenerateSitemaps.java