DPN Documentation

Setting Up a DPN Node

A DPN node may provide one or more functions:

• a metadata registry of DPN content and transactions
• ingest of content into DPN bags
• replication of DPN bags
• auditing of DPN bags
• restoration of DPN bags

The specifications for these and other functions are in two areas:

• dpn-admin/dpn-docs
  • various documents about DPN designs and functions
• dpn-admin/dpn-rest-spec
  • an authoritative specification of a REST API for DPN
  • branches contain different versions, e.g.
    • api-v1
    • api-v2

There are several software projects in the dpn-admin github organization to provide implementations of these functions:

• dpn-admin/dpn-server
  • a ruby-on-rails application
  • implements dpn-admin/dpn-rest-spec
  • implementations for DPN bag transfers using delayed jobs
• dpn-admin/dpn-client
  • a ruby client for the DPN REST API
  • https://rubygems.org/gems/dpn-client
• dpn-admin/dpn-sync
  • a ruby project to sync registry data and DPN bags
  • based on the Sidekiq jobs, with a Sinatra dashboard
  • relies on:
    • dpn-admin/dpn-client
    • dpn-admin/dpn-bagit
• dpn-admin/dpn-bagit
  • implements the DPN BagIt specification
  • https://rubygems.org/gems/dpn-bagit/