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The Seduction of the Vampire" Chapter Two
He sat for a moment more, his yellow-purple eyes boring into her; fixing her on the bed.
His hand reached toward an inside pocket as she lay frozen, almost hypnotized, watching him.
It was the looking at him alone that made her feel weak, looking at him made her entire body tingle, made it want to move toward him, to be absorbed by him.
She watched as he took from his inside pocket a small vial of a clear fluid which glimmered and shown brightly, having inside it movement which she did not understand.
The contents of the vial seem to swirl around as if its contents inside were alive.
He took the vial, uncorked it, moving it slowly up to his mouth, his eyes never leaving hers.
Dipping the vial to his right fang, Molly could see the liquid being drawn up by the fang, a fang which she realized could suck.
Of course, she chastised herself; fangs could, and would, obviously need to suck.
But this was the first time she had seen it actually happen.
Meantime, time Saron's eyes rolled gently up as he took the vial and dipped his left fang into the vial draining it, too, of its remaining contents and then, reaching for her slowly, took her hand into his two hands and raising them to his mouth.
"You" he said in his deep soft voice, "are precious to me and we have for hundreds of years loved each other and now you inhabit this body and I want inhabit this body with you this night because I am unable to resist you, unable to resist loving you. But I cannot fully, because," he hesitated, "I cannot because to do so would threaten your continued existence and mine as well.
"All that is possible now is a merging of a different kind."
"But first I must give you the blood-barrier fluid to protect us."
"If I do not we both risk extinction…"he said his voice lowering quietly.
"Tonight" he said pausing "we undertake again our honeymoon post-poned these 300 years. This fluid will protect us but, only for an hour, and even so we must be careful not to become carried away by passion because to do so might be harmful.
She still did not understand what he was referring to, only that she wanted him, desired him.
It didn't matter to her. It didn't matter because her body was not as it should be and she knew that. The doctors had told her she only had weeks if not days to live in any event.
He held her hand, as his mouth closed upon her uplifted hand; his mouth felt at once cold but also had the warm tingling sensation things very cold can often have.
He bent closer now his mouth seeking her mouth, his hands sought her body, underneath her clothing gliding over it but not touching her skin; his hands moved along side her breasts generating electricity, static electricity which created sparks which made her shudder gently.
She arched her body up longing for his touch but each time his hand moved away just out of reach. Her need, her desire for his touch grew stronger and stronger and she could feel her body begin to convulse gently, as her mouth sought his mouth. He floated above her magically, floating above her close, very close but not touching.
She felt naked in her undergarments, feeling the electricity of the closeness of this encounter of his body so close to her body.
She felt him start to shake as well, the energy between them, their close but not touching love-making creating sparks; jumping the gap between them moving, doing so, into her very soul through her skin.
She sighed and let loose a gentle tremble.
The disease gave her the tremblings and he seemed to sense it. If he could make her immortal she would let him do that. She didn't want to die.
He took her raised hand while stilling floating above her prone body and made a gentle prick in her wrist with first one and then the other fang, each time injecting what she knew must have been the liquid from the vial.
It flowed into her veins with a cold flooding sensation which coursed through her blood stream making her dizzier and dizzier and more and more aroused.
She felt him kiss her lightly on her neck floating centimeters above her, coming down upon her gently, drawing his cloak around the two of them, each breathing heavily. She trembled under this cloak of darkness feeling him move inside her soul feeling his and her gathering lust at last plunging his mouth on her mouth, murmuring lustily.
"This is our consummation" he said " I claim you in the sign of the clan reviving all that we have had been to one another, you inside this human body I now come to you in our honey-moon night, mixing our ancient spirits, surrendering you to I and I to you." His voice, his breath, shook her.
"You'll not remember. You'll not remember," he was saying whispering to her at the climactic moment as she moaned in his ear while feeling her body convulse again and again under him as electric charge after charge made her entire body shudder again and again under which, he too, shook.
He heard him sigh jerking into his own release, the electric intensity seeming to shock both of them, forcing them into mutual upwardly spiraling release, even though not touching.
Suddenly, she felt the full weight upon her prone contour, making her gasp because at that moment they were touching, he laying upon her, exhausted in his consummation yet still continuing to convulsed gently matching her similar gentle tremblings. She lay feeling herself filled up with him.
You'll not remember" she heard him say, and saw in his eyes, both love and sadness.
She awoke the next morning shaking, her body still remembering even if her mind could not for the moment.
Her body was still reacting but she could not understand why or what it was reacting to at the moment.
She reached for her medicine to try to stop the body reactions, vaguely now remembering that she had dreamt in the night, trying to remember the details of the dream knowing she and Sargon had touch less sex. and wondering too if that meant he was not really interested in her. t
She took her medicine and lay back trying to re-capture the previous night's dream, looking forward to encountering her vampire this day-somehow knowing he was a different kind of vampire one who loved the sunlight as well as the night.
Her body gave a last shudder before she rose to bathe before her breakfast and descend to greet her guests.
End of Chapter Two
To be Continued.
"The Seduction of the Vampire" Chapter Three
She came down to breakfast descending the stair case to see a small group below all filing in for breakfast as well. She could see Sargon's eyes rise up to take in her form she could feel her body react, perhaps to the drugs. She was actually disappointed to note that he did not seem to acknowledge the night before, her forwardness and she resolved to give up on him, since he displayed little interest in her, after she had literally thrown herself at him on the last evening.
He sought her eyes and she looked away tilting her head just enough to show both disinterest and disdain yet still wondering and perhaps even hoping that he might be an answer for her, be an alternative for her to simply dying.
He showed surprise at her demeanor, a small smile leaving his face. Even so, as she stood at the foot of the staircase, he offered his arm which she pretended not to notice, moving instead to accept a similar offer from Mr. Gaston, both turning to enter the breakfast room.
"Morning, to you," Mr. Gaston said cheerful allowing his hand to land lightly upon hers as he offered his arm.
Together he led the way into the breakfast chamber.
Mother was directing the guests each to his or her seating busily chirping away in her sing-song voice.
Mother, Molly thought, loved entertaining, loved the spectacle of it, the socialness of it.
She had what the French thought of as a salon personality, a truly social creature.
And she was, which likely accounted for, Molly thought, her own shyness. Her mother took up all of the social space in a room leaving little for others, and guests usually out of politeness gave her the attention she so obviously craved.
And she absorbed that attention as a humming bird craves nectar.
Sargon looked at Molly, his gaze reading into her that, indeed, she had no memory of the previous night had no recollection what so ever, of what had transpired between them, and that both pleased him and chagrined him, because he did want Layla to know he was there, had found her.
But in blocking Molly's memory he had also blocked Layla's memory as well.
Inhabitations were very difficult, he thought to himself, that is why they were fairly rare and dangerous as well in other ways for all concerned.
A bad habitation could kill both the host and the vampire easily, too easily, which is why the council had banned them largely.
Still, they did occur, and, he full well knew why Layla had undertaken this particular habitation of Molly and had done it so skillfully that it had taken him centuries to find her.
And having found her he would not let her go.
"Mr. Sargon," Molly's mother was saying at the onset of breakfast, "I understand you'll speak to us today on Vampire Immortality and its habitations. I am so looking forward to it, mighten you give us a small preview here at breakfast?"
Two dozen eyes turned toward Sargon and with a small movement of his white cloth napkin he indicated his surrender to her request, placing the napkin origami-style up-right beside his plate.
"Well I mean to offer what ever knowledge I have, of course, and my intention today is to reveal what I see as the grave situation we face on this planet."
"A grave situation which may mean war or peace between the clans, between the clans and humans, a war which will have grave consequences for all concerned if it is allowed to happen."
"Peace, in my view," Sargon continued "is the only option."
Mr. Gaston spoke up suddenly startling Molly in doing so, saying, "Don't you think sirs," he said, "that sometimes war is the only option and if so the object is to win the war at all costs and quickly, once it has started."
Sargon looked at the younger man, and decided to ignore the comment proceeding with his presentation, glancing briefly at Molly who stared full up at him, open-eyed and inquiring.
"I," Sargon continued "believe that the Vampire clans can survive without human blood and the chemists have given us some promising plasmas to work with, some we believe will work, thereby offering survival for both humans and the clans.
"But many hot-heads, on both sides, clamor for war, considering it inevitable, wrongly I think, and today I mean to lay out a plan as to how that can be avoided."
"But how sir, can you be specific?" Gaston interrupted again.
"The specifics sir," Sargon said "shall be within the presentation this afternoon. I trust your patience will cooperate with me in this."
Gaston turned red and went silent.
"But I have this to share at this point," Sargon continued,
"I have in my travels have been working with an experimental plant protein which has the capacity, I believe, to serve as food for the vampire, food other than human blood and,, as well, I believe to reverse vampirism in humans already infected."
There were small gasps in the room of the 24 breakfasters because while many had heard of Sargon's work but to hear it spoken of directly was new to most of them.
It was not new however to one who sat quietly vowing that Sargon, as the council had guessed was a traitor, and was willing to turn the formula over to humans. And for that he must die.
"Die at my hand if necessary." Regarn thought.
The Seduction of the Vampire: Chapter Four
They all rose after breakfast to view Molly's Mother's paintings. She enjoyed showing off her paintings and each visitor dutifully clucked over each piece. It was not that Molly's mother was without talent. She had talent. Rather, it was that she seemed to need to be constantly told of that talent to the point of boredom.
Molly stood just outside the "gallery room" suddenly feeling someone at her side.
It was Sargon. He stood silently not speaking and she resolved to simply ignore him.
"Your mother has real talent," he said to her profile. She did not answer and looked straight ahead continuing to ignore him.
"Look," he said "I sense that you are peeved with me and I can understand. But try to understand..."
"Understand what sir," Molly said testily.
"I throw myself at you and, in the end, I have a feeling that you have, in fact, spurned me... and I have the strangest feeling that you see me as someone I am not and memory coming back to me you seemed to be making love to someone else not me," she said in whispering tones.
Sargon realized that his memory block was fading said "Precisely, Mrs Vanderbilt you see, I mean do you know much about habitations?"
"Habitations yes a little..,"Molly's voice trailed off.
"Are you telling me that I, that I am inhabited?"
"Yes," Sargon said "yes, this is true and it is immensely complicated because these last fews days as I have gotten to know you, I find you to be..."
But Molly was not listening, she was shocked, truly shocked by his statement that she was inhabited.
Mr. Gaston appeared offering his arm to Molly saying "There you are, Molly, your mother has been asking for you."
"Excuse us" he said to Sargon coldly spiriting Molly away, leaving Sargon to peer at their retreating forms.
"This," Sargon was saying to himself is becoming immensely involved. Untangling the habitation could kill both Layla and Molly, and he suspected that depending upon how long the two had been joined, it may be impossible to disentangle them at this point.
The blood-barrier fluid may protect both of them or neither one and both could expire.
He, too, could expire since Molly's disease was a blood disease one that could kill a vampire if he drank her blood. She did not know this but he did. His only hope was to continue to test the protein on her and see what happened.
In any event he vowed to tell her everything and no longer contrinue the subterfuge. But that would be after the presentation.
To be continued.
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General Park News - (6/8/15) Marvel fans will get an exclusive sneak peek at the new Ant-Man movie at Disney California Adventure starting on June 19th in the Bug's Life Theater. This will be a typical limited time "special preview" to give guests a look at select scenes from the film in 3D with special in-theater special effects. They will also have the Ant-Man suit on hand to check out first hand. Ant-Man hits theaters nationwide starting July 17, 2015. (5/7/15) Just a reminder, Disney has confirmed that we will see the return of the Mad T Party (the Diamond edition this time) at Disney California Adventure in the evenings starting May 22. (2/16/15) Disney has announced that The Mad T Party will be returning to Disney California Adventure starting in May, when the current Freeze the Night party comes to an end. Look for Mad T Party to kick off again on May 22, 2015. (1/16/15) Looks like the rumor of a long-term fix for Luigi's Flying Tires is true, as the park's rehab schedule now confirms it shutting down from Feb. 3 through to Dec. 1, 2015. (11/20/14) I'm not sure how true this report it, but the rumor going around is that MuppetVision 3D, closing temporarily for a Frozen-themed show during the winter holiday season, may not reopen and the Frozen sing-a-long themed attraction could linger on indefinitely. On the subject of attractions leaving California Adventure for good, while Disney hasn't confirmed any rumors about the Muppets, Disney did confirme that the Mad T Party evening event will end on November 30th. No word yet on what will replace it, though I wouldn't mind a second chance to see ElecTRONica… I missed it the first time around. (11/7/14) Inspired by San Fransokyo, the city from Disney's new Big Hero 6 animated film, Award Weiners at Disney California Adventure is now offering the Teriyaki Street Dog, a Teriyaki-glazed all beef hot dog on a garlic chive roll and wasabi mayo, ginger, carrot and cucumber slaw. You can also get your drink served in a Baymax souvenir sipper. (11/3/14) For Disney Art fans, be advised that The Art of Guy Vasilovich will be on display at "Off the Page" inside the Animation Building attraction within Disney California Adventure on November 8 & 9 along with the artist himself doing a signing from 11am to 3pm. Check out the official details here. (10/22/14) According to DisneyDose the long-running Aladdin musical show at Disney Calfornia Adventure could be on the way out again. I know… we've heard this all before… twice before if memory serves, each time with a different rumored replacement. According to the report a new show themed to Tangled may be the replacement, after a test run of a Tangled musical happens on the Disney Cruise Line sometime in 2015 and has time to work out the kinks. They say not to expect the current run of Aladdin to close until sometime between late 2016 or early 2017 most likely. So is it time for Aladdin to bow out or go you want another decade of the Genie?
2015 - Frozen Fun - Confirmed - (12/23/14) A great photo report from Westcoaster showing off all the new Frozen Fun festivities that have already been added all across Disney California Adventure as well as a peek over at Disneyland too. (12/22/14) Disney California Adventure will launch some new limited time "Frozen Fun" events in the park starting January 7th. The new additions to the park include For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration that will take place inside the MuppetVision 3D theater. Olaf's Snow Fest will open inside the nearby Stage 17 with a giant snow play area, a snow slide and musical performances along with Wandering Oaken's Trading Post just outside. Anna and Elsa's Royal Welcome will see the sisters Meet & Greet area move from Disneyland over to California Adventure's Animation Courtyard. In the evenings you can enjoy Freeze The Night!A Family Dance Party that will take over Hollywood Land with music, special treats and frosty beverages. For those who can't wait… many of these special new additions have already begun to soft open for guests this week.
2015 - Diamond Celebration / World of Color - Celebrate! - Confirmed - (1/29/14) Disney confirmed last night that Carthay Circle Theater in Disney California Adventure will be given a little up-do for the Diamond Celebration. Similar in look to what they are going to Sleeping Beauty Castle (read more here) the theater will be given a diamond medallion (with a big letter "D") and covered in blue Diamond Celebration banners and decor to celebrate the anniversary.
2016 - Soarin' Over the Horizon - Rumor - (3/11/15)
2016 - New Cars Land Ride / Luigi's Festival of the Dance - (4/20/15) Permits were filed in California to begin work on building the new Cars Land ride to replace the Flying Tires. The paperwork lists the name of the new ride as Luigi's Festival of the Dance. (2/18/15) Luigi's Flying Tires is closed for good, but Westcoaster has posted one final detailed look at the attraction and queue to remember it by, before it vanishes into the Neverland history books.
???? - MuppetVision 2 - Rumor - (8/20/2014) The end of the latest MiceChat update mentions that the long rumored on again/off again proposal to make a new film for MuppetVision 3D is not only still in development, but just may be up to finally get green lit in the near future.
???? - Marvel Land / Coaster - Rumor - (8/20/14) The latest updates at MiceChat are full of interesting rumors about ideas in development, but remember these are just possible ideas. Nothing has been green lit yet. Keeping that in mind, they claim that plans are now being worked on to bring a proper Marvel themed land to California Adventure. This would effectively take up the empty back corner of Hollywoodland, once pitched as a Monsters Inc. themed land before that project got the axe. As you would expect, it will be full of character meet & greet opportunities as they move out of Innoventions, and be anchored by a Marvel themed version of Rock 'n Roller Coaster, which would located the main coaster building in the parking lot between the Tower or Terror and Luigi's Flying Tires.
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Vegetarian Paella
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|Canola oil
|2 Teaspoon
|Firm tofu
|8 Ounce, cubed
|Sweet red pepper
|1 Large, cut into strips
|Chopped onions
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|2 Clove (10 gm), minced
|Canned crushed tomatoes packed in juice
|2 1⁄2 Cup (40 tbs)
|Frozen artichoke hearts
|10 Ounce, thawed (1 Package)
|Frozen corn
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Frozen peas
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Fat free, low sodium chicken broth
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Dried thyme
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground saffron
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
Add the oil to a paella pan or large skillet and heat over medium heat.
Add the tofu, peppers, onions and garlic.
Cook and stir for 4 to 5 minutes or until the tofu is golden.
Stir in the tomatoes (with juices), artichokes, corn and peas.
Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat.
Simmer, uncovered, for 5 to 7 minutes or until the vegetables are tender and the liquid slightly thickens.
Add the broth, thyme and saffron.
Bring to a boil, then stir in the couscous.
Remove the pan or skillet from the heat.
Cover and let stand for 10 minutes.
Before serving, use a fork to fluff the couscous.
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|Season 9
Episode 10
|Directed by
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|Written by
|Kenny Hotz
|Original air date
|November 2, 2005
|Guest actors
"Follow That Egg" is the tenth episode of the ninth season and the 135th overall episode of the American animated television series South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 2, 2005. In the episode, Mrs. Garrison tries reuniting with her ex-boyfriend Mr. Slave, but finds out that he is going to marry Big Gay Al after the governor of Colorado legalizes same-sex marriage in the state. Garrison, furious, goes to the governor and tells him that if same-sex couples get married, they will have the right to raise children, which she believes they are incapable of doing, and so decides to use a class project as a way to get the governor to change his mind.
The episode was written by Kenny Hotz and is rated TV-MA in the United States, except on syndicated broadcasts, where this episode is rated TV-14.
Mrs. Garrison pairs off the kids in her class and assigns them to care for eggs as if they were babies as part of a lesson in parenting responsibility. Stan is worried he will get paired with his ex-girlfriend Wendy, whom he has not spoken to since their breakup. However, Wendy is assigned to Kyle while Stan is paired with Bebe. The assignments cause tension among the students, as Stan starts to suspect Kyle of having his eyes on Wendy while Bebe is angry at Stan's indifference to their egg.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Garrison, having been watching Stan, is reminded of her old boyfriend, Mr. Slave, who broke up with her after her sex change operation. Garrison attempts to take Mr. Slave back, only to learn that he is now in a relationship with Big Gay Al and that they are going to get married as soon as the governor of Colorado legalizes such unions. Mrs. Garrison, mad with jealousy, dedicates herself to doing whatever she can to prevent their union from being legalized. The governor demands a study demonstrating that gay families are unstable before agreeing to veto the marriage bill. Mrs. Garrison thus reorganizes Stan, Kyle, Wendy and Bebe into same-sex couples, hoping that Stan's poor "parenting" skills will destroy the egg and provide the results the governor needs.
Wendy becomes upset because Stan and Kyle now have the egg that originally belonged to her and Kyle—she has no faith in Stan as a father, and misses it as if it were her own child. The boys remain on bad terms; Stan is still suspicious about Kyle's motives with Wendy and frequently snaps at him, while Kyle is a little confused as to what has made Stan so aggressive. Meanwhile, Cartman breaks his egg and tries to ask Garrison to give his partner an A, because it was not her fault—and finally arguing that with his F, together their grades should average out to C−. However, Garrison is so bent on the same-sex marriage law to be vetoed, she gives Cartman a new egg, and angrily threatens Cartman that if he breaks the other egg, Garrison would "break both his legs and burn down his house". Garrison makes plans for the final egg check in front of the governor's office, and, to make sure Stan and Kyle's egg is broken when they present it, hires an assassin named Jakartha to destroy the egg. Just as Stan is boasting to Kyle over the phone about how well he has looked after the egg, Jakartha fires a bullet through Stan's window. The bullet hits the egg and blows it to pieces in Stan's hand, causing Stan to scream in terror.
Kyle comes over to Stan's house and Stan tells him to just go be with Wendy, but Kyle reveals that he feared Stan's ability as a parent and so gave Stan a fake egg while he kept and saved the real one. Kyle also tells Stan that he had never had any interest in Wendy, since he just wanted an A on the project; Stan merely viewed her as a partner. The two boys reconcile and rush to the governor's office in a taxi, with Kyle calling Mrs. Garrison and telling her their egg is fine and that they are on their way. A horrified Garrison demands that Jakartha destroys the egg before it reaches the podium. Jakartha, fearing for his reputation, opens fire on the crowd to destroy the egg. Stan and Kyle rush through the crowd, narrowly avoiding Jakartha's gunfire and hidden grenades in the ground. After Jakartha detonates all the bombs, they reach the podium weary and hurt. Stan presents the intact egg to Garrison and the governor before passing out from exhaustion. The governor inspects the egg and, upon seeing that it is undamaged, announces that same-sex marriage is now legal in Colorado.
The episode concludes with Mr. Slave and Big Gay Al marrying in matching wedding dresses with Father Maxi officiating. Randy congratulates Stan and Kyle for what they have done for same-sex marriage rights, though they are still not sure what role they played in it. Wendy tells Stan that she was impressed by his parenting skills, but Stan responds by saying, "Like I give a crap about what you think, Wendy," and Wendy walks away.
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DSpace – A Sustainable Solution for Institutional Digital Asset Services – Spanning the Information Asset Value Chain: Ingest, Manage, Preserve, Disseminate INTERNAL REFERENCE SPECIFICATION Technology & Architecture Michael J. Bass, David Stuve, Robert Tansley Margret Branschofsky, Peter Breton 1, Peter Carmichael 2, Bill Cattey, Dan Chudnov, Joyce Ng Masssachusetts Institute of Technology Building 10-500 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 +1 617 253 xxxx Hewlett-Packard Company Building 10-500 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 +1 617 253 6617 email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com 1 2 Under contract to MIT Under contract to MIT Version 2002-03-01 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture CONTENTS 1. 2. AUDIENCE ................................................................ 1 TECHCHNOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE............. 1 2.1 PHILOSOPHY AND VALUES ......................................... 1 2.1.1 Information-Centric ......................................... 1 2.1.2 Pre-Competitive: Low Adoption Barriers........ 1 2.1.3 Suitable for Research ....................................... 1 2.1.4 Use and Lead Standards .................................. 1 2.1.5 Sustainable ....................................................... 1 2.2 ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW ........................................ 2 2.2.1 Three-Layer Architecture................................. 2 2.2.2 Data Model ...................................................... 3 2.2.2 Data Model ...................................................... 3 2.2.3 Relationship with OAIS.................................... 3 2.3 SUBSYSTEM DETAILS................................................. 4 2.3.1 Relational Database......................................... 4 2.3.2 Bitstream storage ............................................. 4 2.3.3 Persistent Naming ............................................ 4 2.3.4 Personal Workspaces ....................................... 4 2.3.5 Workflow .......................................................... 4 2.3.6 Index & Search................................................. 5 2.3.7 Browse.............................................................. 5 2.3.8 People & Groups.............................................. 5 2.3.9 Authorization & Policies.................................. 5 2.3.10 History.............................................................. 5 2.3.11 Logging ............................................................ 5 2.3.12 User Interface................................................... 5 2.3.13 Import/Export................................................... 6 2.3.14 DSpace "Public" API ....................................... 6 2.3.15 Dissemination................................................... 6 3. REFERENCES........................................................... 6 Version 2002-03-01 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture Version 2002-03-01 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture 1. AUDIENCE This document is intended to provide a technology and architecture overview of the DSpace system. It is aimed at individuals who wish to understand, evaluate, or provide feedback on the technology and architecture choices that the design team has made. This document is intended to be the basis for more detailed technical documents that detail the interfaces of each of the components of the DSpace system architecture. that enable a lower long-term cost-of-management and a higher long-term value for a very large corpus of information. 2.1.4 Use and Lead Standards Because the system must be information-centric, we are committed to using relevant standards for creating, describing, and accessing information and information assets. In many cases there is no clear standard, or existing standards are not yet mature. In these cases we hope to test, inform, and influence the development of useful and appropriate standards. 2. TECHCHNOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE 2.1 Philosophy and Values 2.1.1 Information-Centric We wish to construct a system that will enable the information that the system deals with to outlive the system itself. It is an overt expectation that information assets managed by the DSpace system will outlive the current system, the current implementation of components within the architecture, as well as external implemented services that access and/or add value to the corpus. This means that historic silo-oriented views of information living "inside" an asset management system will not be sufficient. Assets will be used by many parties, each with different world views, for many purposes. Systems and services in the future will flow around existing information assets, and standards-based mechanisms for access to those assets will need to be a part of the web infrastructure. 2.1.5 Sustainable A core part of the DSpace value proposition is enabling institutions with a sustainable ability to retain information assets and offer services upon them. This means that economic and social consideration must come must be considered with as much weight as technical considerations in evaluating alternative directions for the project. 2.1.2 Pre-Competitive: Low Adoption Barriers DSpace is pre-competitive. Because in the long-term we wish to increase the baseline capabilities for information asset management in the web infrastructure, we must be committed to DSpace being both useful and adoptable by many institutions. Low adoption barriers and a focus on providing useful functionality will provide the grounding use cases, quick feedback, and a channel for widespread and visible deployment of demonstrated results. To ensure that adoption barriers remain low, HP and MIT have agreed to license all software produced within the joint project with an open-source, BSD license. Further, where third-party components are incorporated into the DSpace system, we strive to choose components that are freely available under similar terms. 2.1.3 Suitable for Research In addition to DSpace being useful to those institutions that adopt and use it, we are committed to DSpace as a useful vehicle for research. As we have designed the initial DSpace system we have in most cases chosen to keep the footprint of the system as small as possible while still meeting the needs of early adopter customers. This small footprint keeps the barriers to experimentation low. We expect that as a result of future research, some components of the architecture will be replaced, enhanced, or subsumed in various ways, as we explore different techniques and toolkits Version 2002-03-01 1 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture 2.2 Architecture Overview 2.2.1 Three-Layer Architecture The DSpace platform is separated into three distinct layers, as illustrated below. From the bottom up, these layers are the storage, business logic and service layers. Web Service Interface Web UI DSpace In-Process Application Interface Provenance, History, Logging Federation Services Business Logic Layer Administration Toolkit Search (Lucene wrapper) Workflow Browse Authorisation Content Management API E-Person/ Group Manager Authentication Handle Manger Storage Interface RDBMS Bit Storage DSpace System Architecture The lowest layer is the storage layer. This presently consists of a relational database for storing metadata and a "bitstream" storage module for storing content data. Each of these has an API accessible to the business logic layer. The union of these APIs comprises the storage interface. The central layer contains the modules that perform the business logic of the system. The diagram above displays the internal plumbing between these modules. Each module has a "public" API. The union of these APIs comprises the DSpace "in-process application interface." It is on this API that services such as the Web user interface and future interoperability and federation services are built. The top layer of the Dspace platform is the services layer. At present, the only implemented service is the Web user interface, though an Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol service is to be added shortly. Version 2002-03-01 2 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture 2.2.2 Data Model Content and metadata in DSpace are logically organized into the simple data model illustrated below. Community community m m collection Collection m m item Item m m bundle Bundle m m 1 1 DC item Record Bitstream bitstream Format format 1 m bitstream Bitstream DSpace Logical Data Model • Content in DSpace is at the highest level organized into communities. These correspond to organizational bodies in an institution, such as departments, labs, research centers or schools. A community is organized into collections of logically-related material. For example, a technical report series might be a collection. An item is an "archival atom"; that is, a grouping of content and metadata that it makes sense to archive as a single unit. This may take the form of a journal article, a dataset, or perhaps a technical report together with a dataset used in experiments described by the report. Precisely what constitutes an archival atom is largely a policy-driven decision. Each item has one Dublin Core metadata record. Other metadata might be stored in an item as a serialized bitstream, but we store Dublin Core for every item for interoperability and ease of discovery. The Dublin Core may be entered by end-users as they submit content, or it might be derived from other metadata as part of an ingest process. The content of items, and any serialized metadata, are stored in bitstreams. These are organized into bundles of closely tied bitstreams. For example, an item might contain a dataset in flat text file, and a technical report in an HTML document. The dataset text file would be stored in one bundle, and the HTML files and associated image files that make up the technical report would be grouped together in another bundle. We use the METS[1] metadata standard to store the relationships between bitstreams in a bundle. Each bitstream is linked to one bitstream format. This is a set of information, maintained by the institution running the archive, describing as much as we know about the format and encoding of the bitstream, including MIME type and name of the type (e.g. "Adobe PDF"). This may also hold information such as the specification of the format, and source code for manipulating the format. Each format additionally has a "support level", indicating how well the hosting institution is likely to be able to preserve content in the format in the future. The relationships between communities, collections, items, bundles and bitstreams may all be many-many. This is because it is unlikely that all material in DSpace will be organized in a strict hierarchy. Duplication of content or objects should be avoided, since apart from inefficiency of storage, rights management information, such as distribution and access policies, needs to be uniformly applied to a piece of content wherever it appears in DSpace. • • • 2.2.3 Relationship with OAIS DSpace is deeply informed by the Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) reference model[1]. The OAIS reference model provides a thorough vocabulary for describing media archive systems, and for crosschecking the functional and operational plans for a proposed archive. Where possible, DSpace adopted the OAIS model and vocabulary to articulate DSpace design objectives and terminology. At a high level, several mappings from the OAIS model to DSpace may be particularly informative: First, in OAIS "producers" submit information to an "archive", which provides access to "consumers" who comprise the "designated community" of an archive. In DSpace, producers are primarily MIT faculty and their designates; the primary designated community is all of MIT, and a secondary designated community is made up of academic researchers world-wide. The DSpace platform will provide the tools for the MIT • • Version 2002-03-01 3 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture Libraries to administer the archive, as well as to accept submissions from producers and allow access appropriately to our communities. These distinctions, also indicated in the OAIS separation of "submission", "archival", and "dissemination" "information packages", are shaping our development and implementation efforts by the clear boundaries between tools and processes the OAIS defines for each. Another element of the OAIS model as adopted by DSpace is the OAIS concept of an "information object", made up of a "data object" and its "representation information". The DSpace team is currently defining internal and external specifications, which address the concerns motivating the distinctions between these within OAIS, and believes that these distinctions are critical concerns for the success of the project. 2.3.3 Persistent Naming Researchers require a stable point of reference for their works. The simple evolution from sharing of citations to emailing of URLs broke when Web users learned that sites can disappear or be reconfigured without notice, and that their bookmark files containing critical links to research results couldn't be trusted long term. To help solve this problem, a core DSpace feature is the creation of persistent URLs for every item stored in DSpace. To persist URLs, DSpace requires a storage- and locationindependent mechanism for creating and maintaining URLs. Currently DSpace uses the CNRI Handle System[3] for creating these URLs. We run the CNRI Handle Server, which offers generic URL redirection across the naming authority and name resolution mechanisms maintained centrally by CNRI. Our implementation of Handles uses a DSpace-specific storage mechanism, so Handle information is stored inside DSpace, rather than the default external storage provided. These fit together when a new item is submitted to DSpace: A new Handle/URL is assigned to that item, and is displayed prominently to the submitter and to anyone browsing that item later. When anyone browses to the Handle URL later, the URL passes through the main CNRI Handle server, which redirects to the DSpace Handle server, which looks up the item inside DSpace and displays the item. This model allows us to revise our internal mechanisms for retrieving items in the future should we so need, as well as physically move content, without compromising researchers' bookmarks. 2.3 Subsystem Details 2.3.1 Relational Database We chose to use a relational database management system (PostgreSQL) to manage data in DSpace for several reasons. First, DSpace captures a great deal of information about relationships between users, content, user groups, and content groupings. These naturally fit the relational model. Second, this information can change regularly, particularly as content and users are added to the system, so database updates need to be transactionally safe according to the ACID model to maintain the integrity of relationships across changes. Finally, SQL provides a straightforward and well-known query environment which suits nearly all our needs for searching, browsing, access control, and user management. We chose PostgreSQL because it addresses these concerns as an ACID-compliant relational database engine, including a SQL92 implementation. Additionally, because PostgreSQL is distributed with an Open Source license, there are no barriers to our development in running multiple instances, or to anyone wishing to codevelop or implement DSpace elsewhere. The availability of PostgreSQL on many platforms further reinforces its wide availability and low-barrier adoption requirements to future DSpace users or developers. 2.3.4 Personal Workspaces A large component of the DSpace project is to do with the submission of content to the archive. Submission is not a simple, one-shot interaction; the Web user interface guides the user through submission via an interactive series of steps. Additionally, a user may start submitting one item, decide to postpone, and in the meantime wish to submit another, separate item. Other submission mechanisms might have similar characteristics. To enable this functionality, DSpace allows each user ("e-person") to have a "personal workspace" in which incomplete submissions may be stored and worked on. When the user starts a submission, a fresh item is created in their workspace. Metadata and content files are added to this item until the user considers it complete, whereby they "commit" the submission. In OAIS terms (see section 2.2.3), the user is building up the Submission Information Package (SIP). When the submission process is completed, the system initiates the workflow associated with the collection the user submitted to. If for some reason the submission is rejected from the collection, or requires edits, it is returned to the user's personal workspace so they may perform the edits without having to restart from scratch. 2.3.2 Bitstream storage The goals of the bitstream storage system are to provide a simple API for pluggable low-level storage (e.g., as flat files, database BLOBs, WebDAV, etc) and to enable adaptive, negotiated storage and retrieval. Both storage and retrieval are policydriven, so that different types of bitstreams (e.g., streaming audio or video) can use different storage mechanisms. This usage is transparent to the clients of the storage system. The current implementation of the bitstream storage system is fairly simple. Clients access bitstreams via a Bitstream Storage Manager, which provides a high-level API to store, fetch and delete bitstreams (note that bitstreams cannot be modified inplace via the API). The Bitstream Storage Manager uses the database to store metadata about the bitstreams and to provide a limited transactional capability for bitstreams. Internally, the Bitstream Storage Manager delegates the actual store, fetch and delete operations to storage components, which handle the lowlevel storage details. As shipped, DSpace uses a single storage component, which stores all data in the file system. 2.3.5 Workflow After they are submitted, documents do not normally go directly into the archive. Submissions will typically go through some sort of editorial review where they can be reviewed, rejected, or edited. We call that editorial review process a workflow. Each collection within DSpace can have its own workflow to meet the needs of its community. Version 2002-03-01 4 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture Our workflow module is a simple state machine that tracks a submission's state on its trip into the DSpace archive. The workflow engine has a simple API to read and manipulate the state of a submission, and it is capable of triggering events such as email notification of the submission's state to members of review teams and the submitter. example, almost all of the items in a collection will have the same set of policies for who can view them. The 'who' in the policy statement can be individual users, groups of users, or reference to a function that returns a Boolean (such as a function needed to check an elapsed time period or receipt of payment.) 2.3.10 History The goals of the history subsystem are to capture a time-based record of significant changes in DSpace, in a manner suitable for later refactoring or repurposing, and to provide a corpus of data suitable for research by HP Labs and other interested parties. Note that the history data is not expected to provide current information about the archive; it simply records what has happened in the past. Currently, the History subsystem is explicitly invoked when significant events occur (e.g., DSpace accepts an item into the archive). The History subsystem then creates RDF data describing the current state of the object. The RDF data is modelled using Harmony/ABC, an ontology for describing temporal-based data, and stored in the filesystem. Some simple indices for unwinding the data are available. 2.3.6 Index & Search Search is an essential component of discovery in DSpace. Users' expectations from a search engine are quite high, so a goal for DSpace is to supply as many search features as possible. DSpace's indexing and search module has a very simple API which allows for indexing new content, regenerating the index, and performing searches on the entire corpus, a community, or collection. Behind the API is the Java freeware search engine Lucene[4]. Lucene gives us fielded searching, stopwords, stemming, and the ability to incrementally add new indexed content without regenerating the entire index. 2.3.7 Browse Another important mechanism for discovery in DSpace is the browse. This is the process whereby the user views a particular index, such as the title index, and navigates around it in search of interesting items. The browse subsystem provides a simple API for achieving this by allowing a caller to specify an index, and a subsection of that index. The browse subsystem then discloses the portion of the index of interest. Indices that may be browsed are item title, item issue date and authors. Additionally, the browse can be limited to items within a particular collection or community. Currently this is implemented using SQL views and an SQL function for removing leading articles in titles. For example, the title "The DSpace Project" would be indexed under "D" and not "T". In this way, the indices are accessed dynamically. We do not need to periodically or incrementally produce a static index. 2.3.11 Logging To facilitate system administration, troubleshooting, and debugging during development, DSpace uses a standard mechanism for logging DSpace activity. Using the Apache log4j logging toolkit, DSpace provides logging output at UNIXstandard "debug, info, and warn" levels: • • "debug" information is verbose and of primary interest during development; "info" messages encapsulate a DSpace-standard format for reporting completion of significant DSpace tasks (e.g. "submit item" or "approve item"), and ties actions during a specific user's session together for immediate or retrospective troubleshooting; "warn" messages record significant anomalies for immediate or retrospective reporting and analysis. 2.3.8 People & Groups Many of DSpace's features such as document discovery and retrieval can be used anonymously, but users must be authenticated to perform functions such as submission, email notification, customized views, or administration. Users are also grouped for easier administration. DSpace calls users "e-people", to reflect that some users may be machines rather than actual people. E-people authenticate with username/password pairs or X509 certificates. E-people can be members of 'groups' to make administrator's lives easier when manipulating authorization policies. • Our implementation uses standard log4j settings for run-time configuration of reporting levels (for instance, "debug" messages are off by default) and message layout. Our server-side configurations record messages to a regularly rotated file in a standard DSpace directory. These files are readily available for analysis using standard UNIX tools (grep, perl) or consolebased log monitoring tools (chainsaw). Aside from DSpace-specific logging, we also use the standard Apache, PostgreSQL, Resin, Handle System, and HP-UX logging tools for efficient monitoring of those independent server processes. 2.3.9 Authorization & Policies DSpace has flexible rights management as a stated goal. 'Flexible' refers to the ability to control access to individual digital objects (e.g. communities, collections, items and bitstreams.) Policies could be defined to restrict access to an object based on a user's identity, membership in a group of users, a period of time of having elapsed, or having special permission (such as making a micropayment.) DSpace's authorization module works from a list of policies, which detail an action, and who is allowed to perform that action. Each object in the system can have its own policy entry, but most will be inherited from the object's container. For 2.3.12 User Interface Currently, the only available means for accessing the DSpace system is via the Web user interface. The Web UI allows users to view communities, collections and items, to perform searches and browse indices, and to download and view content. It also allows users to submit content and metadata, and to perform workflow tasks, using a section of the UI known as "My DSpace". The user interface has been through a number of Version 2002-03-01 5 DSpace Internal Reference Specification – Technology & Architecture usability tests, particularly focused on the submission UI, since this is the most complex part of the UI. The Web UI is implemented using a Java Servlet engine, Resin[5], with support for Java Server Pages. A combination of Servlets and JSPs are used in a model-view-controller style. Servlets receive incoming HTTP requests and handle the processing and business logic, and these forward the request to a suitable JSP for display. This means the JSPs are as close to pure HTML as possible, making customization, internationalization and error handling as simple as possible. At present, due to tight development schedules, the user interface code currently performs much of the business logic that should be present in the business logic layer. One of the tasks immediately facing the development team is separating out this business logic such that other services can access this business logic via the content management API. forms the DSpace in-process application interface. However, this is not a truly "public" API – external applications will not be able to use this API directly. This API is "trusted" – it is up to the services in the service layer to ensure users are authenticated. This is because authentication techniques will vary greatly between services, and some services may use an external authentication mechanism, such as a federation service using a global access control list external to DSpace. Access to the API will be enabled via the implementation of services in the service layer. For example, a SOAP service could allow remote access to and manipulation of DSpace content. 2.3.15 Dissemination Using the terminology of the OAIS model (section 2.2.3), the act of delivering content and/or metadata to a user is called dissemination. The current version of DSpace has a very simple approach to dissemination: Uploaded bitstreams may be downloaded as-is. This works fine in a bounded environment, such as a department all using similar Web-based computing systems, and for a limited amount of time. However, in the long term content needs to be accessible by a wider audience, who may be using a wide variety of computing equipment. Additionally, file interchange formats and standards, and rendering software and hardware change over time. A method is needed whereby a client's capability for rendering media is assessed, and an appropriate version or rendition of the content is accessed or computed. Referring again to OAIS terminology, we need to define mechanisms for obtaining appropriate Dissemination Information Packages from the Archival Information Package held within DSpace. A number of methodologies for addressing this are under review, including the FEDORA work[2], the Repository Access Protocol (RAP), other Web Services work, and the work of the Device Independence group in HP Labs. 2.3.13 Import/Export As with any content management system, DSpace has the need to import content, whether sharing content with another system or assuming managment of legacy content. Other systems will also want to interoperate with DSpace. DSpace's import capability is currently done with an intermediate file format for content, and an importer that can place that content into the DSpace system. The format of legacy content varies widely, so custom front-ends to convert the content and metadata into DSpace's import format are done on a case by case basis. DSpace plans on using OAI (Open Archives Initiative[6]) to expose and share metadata with other systems. Content export can be done with DSpace's import file-format. 2.3.14 DSpace "Public" API As described above in section 2.2.1, each component in the business logic layer has a "public" API, and the union of these 3. REFERENCES [1] CCSDS 650.0-R-2: Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). Red Book. Issue 2. June 2001 http://www.ccsds.org/documents/pdf/CCSDS-650.0-R-2.pdf [2] Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA): http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/fedora.html [3] Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The Handle System. http://www.handle.net/ [4] Jakarta Lucene. http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html [5] Caucho Technology. 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