Connect to Medusa Core
The Medusa Core is not accessed directly, and is not publicly available.
Description
Medusa is the underlying repository framework that supports many different digital collection activities, including long-term digital preservation.
When is this service available
The Medusa core is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Priority level for this service
Maintaining the Medusa core is a critical priority for Library IT. We make every effort to resolve problems with this service as quickly as possible.
How to report a problem
Problems with the Medusa core will either be detected automatically, or will be reported through public facing services that sit on top of the core.
Who can use this service
Leveraging the Medusa core is restricted to Library approved software development and API activities. For more information, contact the IT Help Desk at 244-4688 or help@library.illinois.edu.
Documentation
Documentation for Medusa Core is stored on the Illinois Wiki.
What you must have to use this service
Contact the Library IT Help Desk at 244-4688 or help@library.illinois.edu for information pertaining to specific applications.
Service owners
Kyle Rimkus
Dependencies on other services
The Medusa Core has several constituent technologies:
- RabbitMQ for message queuing between servers;
- Fedora
- SOLR
- Kumquat (Digital Library Service)
- IIIF
- RDF
- NCSA condo storage
- NCSA Campus Cluster
- Amazon Glacier
Date created
April 2, 2015
Date revised
November 29, 2016