Proposed
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- Level A - High availability expectation (Expected to be available during and outside of normal workday hours)
- Level B - Medium availability expectation (Monday through Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM EST)
- Level C - Low availability expectation (Low priority to restore in an outage)
- Level A/D - Fluctuating; level changes based on time of year
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Customer Groups
General public - general patrons anywhere
Princeton University (all) - anyone with an active Princeton University account (includes DCU and GAP accounts)
Limited within Princeton University - a subset of users with active Princeton University accounts
PUL staff - staff members of PUL
Proposed Criticality
Level 0 - Core infrastructure
Level 1 - Highest criticality applications for services to be active
Level 2 - High availability services
Level 3 - Medium availability services
Level 4 - Low availability services; lowest criticality for service to be restored in an outage
Level 1/4 - Fluctuating; level changes based on time of year
Criticality as defined in this document is intended to inform prioritizing the order in which infrastructure/services are brought back up in the event of a major outage of multiple services and pieces of infrastructure.
Service | Application | Description | Product Owner / Stakeholder | Other Application Contacts | IT Group (DACS, DLS, RDSS, Operations, IT Projects, Alma Tech Team) | Customer Group |
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Dependencies (internal and external) | Proposed Criticality | Status | |||||||
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Digital Content and Creation | |||||||||
Aeon | Requesting service for Special Collections materials | Sara Logue | DACS | Princeton FTE + Registered Outside Researchers |
2 | ||||||
ArchivesSpace | Management system for Special Collections finding aids (hosted by Lyrasis) | Will Clements | DACS | Princeton Staff |
2 | |||||
DPUL | Digital collections and exhibit platform | Kim Leaman | DLS |
General public | 2 | |||||
OA Waiver Form | Open Access waivers database, integrated with OAR ingestion workflow | Hannah Hadley | RDSS | Princeton University (all) |
2 | |||||||||
Figgy | Digital repository for digitized materials, including books, maps, ephemera, digital audio, and coins. | Kim Leaman | DLS | General public | 2 | ||||
Lib-static | Static HTML pages (example: legacy RBSC Exhibition Sites transitioned from Drupal) | Kevin Reiss |
IT Projects | Public Web Resources |
3 | |||
Video Reserves |
Player | Delivery mechanism to authenticate users and deliver all curated video reserves materials in the catalog |
Liza Scherff-Nesarikar, Nick Reynolds | DACS |
Princeton University ( |
all) | 2 | ||||||||
Digital Repository Cloud IIIF Image Server | AWS Lambda that serves Figgy's tiled images. | Trey Pendragon | DLS | General Public | 2 | ||||
Digital Repository Cloud Geoservices | AWS Lambdas that serve Figgy's geospatial resources for vector and raster data. | Trey pendragon | DLS | General Public | 2 | ||||
Theses-Dissertations | Customized DSpace 7.x instance for senior thesis submission, review, and publication software | Lynn Durgin | RDSS | Princeton University (all) |
1/4 | Being migrated to a hosted service with the vendor 4Science; proposed future home for dissertations and Masters theses from Proquest | ||||||||
Discovery and Research Tools | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A - Z Database | Libguides Databases Modules (Hosted) | DACS/OPS | General Public |
2 | |||||||||
ArcGIS | Hosted GIS data entry and visualization app | Wangyal Shawa | OPS | Princeton University (all) | 3 | ||||
Bibdata / marc_liberation | APIs and forms for accessing Alma data, locations, dumps of updated records, etc. | Alexis Antracoli and Jennifer Baxmeyer | DACS | General Public |
1 | ||||||
DataSpace | DSpace instance for senior theses, dissertations, and PDFs deposited by selectors (Google Cloud) | Wind Cowles, Meghan Testerman, Lynn Durgin, Patty Gaspari-Bridges | RDSS | General public |
2 | In the process of migrating content to more suitable systems | ||||||||
Digital Cicognara Library (Cicognara.org) | Art history digital library with content contributed by Princeton, the Vatican, and several other partners | Holly Hatheway | IT Projects | General public | Migrated to static site in winter 2024 | ||||
DPUL | Digital collections and exhibit platform | Kim Leaman |
DLS | General Public | 2 | ||||
DSS Catalog | Catalog of free and licensed data sources | Bobray Bordelon | DACS | General public |
2 | |||||
DSS Data Server | Database for DSS Catalog | Bobray Bordelon | OPS |
General public | 2 | ||||||||
East Asian Library Web Apps | Collection of PHP scripts and webforms for EAL staff, and boutique websites | Tom Ventimiglia | Kevin Reiss | General public | 2 | Still in sunset mode. | |||
EZproxy | Proxy server for providing authenticated access to licensed resources | Joe Marciniak | DACS | Princeton University (all) |
2 | Ansible playbook needs work/possible move to hosting FY2025. | ||||||||
Finding Aids / PULFA / PULFAlight | Main discovery portal for Special Collections finding aids | Faith Charlton and Christa Cleeton | DLS | General public | 2 | ||||
Illiad - Article Express | Requesting tool for books, articles, and microforms | Nick Reynolds, Liza Scherff-Nesarikar | DACS/OPS | Princeton University (all) |
2 |
Moving to hosting at OCLC this winter. | |||||||||
Latin American Ephemera (LAE) | Digital library showcase for Latin American Ephemera | Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez | DLS | General Public | 4 | ||||
LibAnswers | Springshare product, Q&A queue (cloud hosted) | Jen Hunter / Vickie Karasic | OPS | General public |
2 | ||
LibGuides | Springshare product for subject and course guides (cloud hosted) |
Jen Hunter / Vickie Karasic | OPS | General public |
2 |
1
Library Catalog / Orangelight | Main discovery interface for physical and electronic resources | Alexis Antracoli and Jennifer Baxmeyer | DACS | General Public |
2 | ||||||
Library Website | Main library website for PUL (Drupal) | Library Communications | OPS/AUX | General Public |
2 |
Hosted by OIT WDS. | |||||
LOCKSS | Passive node in the LOCKSS distributed digital preservation network | Annie Gee / David Hollander (US Docs) / Annalise Berdini | OPS |
PUL Staff | |||||||||
Static Tables | Now managed as the static tables application. Data hosted on Google Docs. Vue JS based website. | Lynn Durgin | DACS | General Public | 2 | ||||
OAR (Open Access Repository) | DSpace instance containing Princeton faculty publications (Google Cloud) | Hannah Hadley | Jen Grayburn | RDSS | General public |
2 | ||||||
Open Publishing | Manifold instance for RDOS supporting publication of open monographs and journals | Hannah Hadley | Jen Grayburn | RDSS | General public |
2 | Hosted by SoftServ (vendor) | |||||
ORCID@Princeton | Leverages ORCID services and ORCID iDs for researchers in the Princeton community | Neggin Keshavarzian | Meghan Testerman | RDSS | Princeton University (all) |
2 | |||||||||
PUL Supplementary Catalog (Imagecat) | Images of catalog cards that were not fully migrated to the ILS | Steve Ferguson | DLS | Princeton Staff | 4 | IP-restricted to campus | |||
Maps Portal / PULMap | Discovery and access portal for digitized maps and GIS data |
Jennifer Grayburn | DLS | General Public | 2 | ||||||
Princeton and Slavery Website | Former CDH project (PHP CMS for narrative and image-based content), hosted and maintained by PUL | CDH, Marnie Sandweiss (emeritus) | DACS | General Public | 2 | Major version upgrade this Fall. | |||
Princeton Research Data Service Website | Informational Website for PRDS | Meghan Testerman | DACS | General Public | 2 | Moving to OIT hosting by end of 2024. | |||
Princeton Data Commons - Describe | Description and ingestion tool for Princeton research data content | Matt Chandler | Meghan Testerman | RDSS | Princeton University (all) |
2 | ||||||
Princeton Data Commons - Discovery | Discovery interface for research data content submitted in PDC Describe | Matt Chandler | Meghan Testerman | RDSS | General public |
1 |
ReCap Website | Drupal brochureware website for ReCap Service. Hosted by OIT. | Ian Bogus |
OIT WDS | General Public | 4 | |||
Stackmap Book Locator App | Holdings location app integrated with Orangelight (cloud hosted) |
Angie | DACS | General Public | 4 | ||||||
Static Web Content | Legacy web content hosted by PUL for Special Collections | Christa Cleeton, Emma Sarconi | DACS | General Public | 4 | ||||
Subscription Databases | Subscription services for database content. Access is managed through SSO or IP authorization | Joe Marciniak | DACS | Limited within Princeton University | 2 | ||||
Summon | a.k.a. Articles+ — vendor-hosted fulltext search service | Research | DACS | General Public | 2 | Hosted | |||
TigerData |
-App | Software application for data storage and management services for research data (collaboration with Research Computing and OIT) | Matt Chandler | Wind Cowles | RDSS | Limited within Princeton University |
Mediaflux software and storage hosted and maintained by Chuck Bentler’s team in Research Computing | 2 | In development; availability and criticality levels will raise once in production | ||||
Veridian - Blue Mountain | Online periodicals | Cliff Wulfman | OPS | General public |
4 | ||||||
Veridian - Historical Periodicals | Online periodicals | Cliff Wulfman | OPS | General public |
4 | ||||||
Veridian - Papers of Princeton | Online periodicals | Cliff Wulfman | OPS | General public |
4 | ||||||
Veridian - The Prince | Online periodicals | Cliff Wulfman | OPS | General public |
4 | |||||||||
Library Administration and Operations | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Access Office Database | Database for managing physical access to PUL buildings, on a PUL file share | April Miller |
OPS | PUL Staff | 4 | Deprecation path? | ||||||
Aeon | Requesting service for Special Collections materials | Sara Logue | OPS | General Public | 2 | Hosted | |||
Alma | Library services platform used by majority of Library staff to track acquisition, cataloging, and circulation of materials, and manage electronic resources. (hosted by Ex Libris) |
Cathy Weng | Alma Tech Team | PUL Staff | 1 | Hosted | |||
ReShare: Search Interface | Public interface for our Borrow Direct Service. Hosted by Indexdata. |
Liza Scherff-Nesarikar, Nick Reynolds | DACS | Limited within Princeton University | 2 | Vendor Hosted | ||
ReShare: Staff Interface | New web-based hosted staff interface by Indexdata. |
Liza Scherff-Nesarikar, Nick Reynolds | DACS |
Liza Scherff-Nesarikar
PUL Staff | 2 | Vendor Hosted | ||||
File Shares | File share servers outside of Isilon (consider migrating to OIT or cloud storage) | OPS | PUL staff |
Lib-jobs | Task management application to transfer data between applications, includes pre-processing work. | Kevin Reiss | DACS | PUL Staff | Peoplesolft, Library Website, Alma, Aspace, Airtable | ||||
OCLC Connexion | Desktop application for copy cataloging | Jennifer Baxmeyer | OPS | PUL staff | |||||
OCLC WorldShare | OCLC website used to download record sets for collections analysis | Kevin Connell | OCLC | PUL staff | |||||
OnBase | Document management system used for invoices, OIT-managed | Dina Conte |
Alma Tech Team | PUL Staff | 2 | |||
ReCAP/LAS (aka GFA) | LAS (shelving inventory software) for ReCAP |
Ian Bogus, Michael Gibbons, and Jamie Smith | OPS | PUL Staff | 2 | |||
ReCAP/SCSB | ReCAP middleware |
Ian Bogus, Michael Gibbons, and Jamie Smith | DACS, OPS | PUL Staff | 2 | Vendor hosted | |||||
Repec Econ Working Papers Database | Economic bibliography data Rails application, collating Open Access materials | Bobray Bordelon | DACS | PUL Staff | 4 | ||||
Symplectic Elements | Researcher information management system (vendor-hosted), harvesting data for the OAR | Hannah Hadley | RDSS | Limited within Princeton University |
3 | Hosted by Digital Science (vendor) | ||||||||
Travel and Absence Approvals Application | Staff tool for requesting and approving leave | Dina Conte | Jon Stroop/Nish Contractor | DACS | PUL Staff | 4 | |||
Patron and Staff Systems Support | |||||||||
ARES/Course Reserves | Course reserves system (cloud hosted) | Nick Reynolds, Liza Scherff-Nesarikar | DACS |
/OPS | PUL Staff | 2 | ||
Illiad | Staff tool for managing interlibrary loan requests (cloud hosted) |
Nick Reynolds | OPS | PUL Staff | 2 | ||||
LibCal | Springshare product, for Seats reservations, booking meeting rooms and student study spaces, registering for PUL staff-organized trainings (cloud hosted) |
Jen Hunter / Vickie Karasic | DACS |
/OPS | General Public | 2 | |||||||
Locker Registration Database | Custom application for creating/managing locker reservations | April Miller/Lewis LIbrary | DACS | Limited within Princeton University | 4 | ||||
Microfilm Scanning/Reading | Devices for microfilm scanning and reading | Colleen Burlingham | OPS | General public | 4 | ||||
Patron Printing | Uses Papercut or Tigerprint software provided by OIT | Carol Houghton | OPS / OIT | Princeton University (all) | 4 | ||||
Patron Scanning | ScannX machines for patron use |
Tracy Hall | OPS | General public | 4 | ||||||
RBSC Reading Room machines | Allows patrons to view restricted collections via laptops in the Firestone Reading Room | Brianna Cregle | OPS | General public | 4 | ||||
AbID | Allows staff to generate IDs synchronized with Alma for cataloging and shelving some special collections materials. | Michael Siravo | DLS | PUL Staff | 3 | ||||
Tigris | Records Management Software (Hosted) | Anne-Marie Phiipps | OPS? | Princeton University Staff | 4 | ||||
Backend and Server Administration | |||||||||
Ansible Platform | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
1 | ||||||
CheckMK | Monitoring system for Library run infrastructure and services | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
1 | ||||||
Isilon Storage OneFS | Operating Systems and administration for Isilon storage | Stephanie Ayers | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
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0 | |||||||||
Lib-sftp | SFTP Server for staging data to and from Alma | Mark Zelesky | Regine Heberlein | DACS, Alma Tech Team | Princeton University | Alma, Aspace, Lib-jobs | 1 | ||
Load Balancing (NGiNX) | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
0 | ||||||
MariaDB | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
1 | |||||||||
Panorama | Palo Alto firewall administration interface | OPS | Limited within Princeton University | 2 | |||||
Princeton Service Portal | IT ticketing system | OIT | OIT | Limited within Princeton University |
0 | ||||||
PostgreSQL | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
1 | |||||
Solr | OPS/ |
DACS/DLS/RDSS | Limited within Princeton University |
1 | Issues related to Solr functionality specific to applications should be routed to the team responsible for the application as well as OPS | |||||
vSphere | Environment and administration for our virtual environment | Stephanie Ayers | OPS | Limited within Princeton University |
0 | ||||||
Windows Server Remote Administration Tools | Bastion host to administer Windows systems | Stephanie Ayers | OIT | Limited within Princeton University |
2 |