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The Connecticut Digital ArchiveServing Connecticut’s cultural heritage community since 2013

June, 2016

Greg Colati, AUL for Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Curation

New Logo!An abstract representation of the CTDA's mission and activity. Central repository services with different branches that break the boundaries of traditional digital repositories and libraries.

New Theme!!

Cyberinfrastructure and the Human Record“Digital cultural heritage resources are a fundamental dataset for the humanities…… combined with computer networks and software tools, [they] now shape the way that scholars [and all interested people] discover and make sense of the human record… … [and] the way their findings are communicated to students, colleagues, and the general public.”

"The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences." American Council of Learned Societies (2006)

The Dilemma of Modern Preservation

2016 2???

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How do we insure that resources that support inquiry and research that exist in digital form today, will reliably exist and be discoverable in the future?

CTDA Development• Phase I: Infrastructure

Building (2011-13)• Phase II: Collection Building

(2013-15)• Phase III: Connection

Building (2016- )

The CTDA in 2013• One institution: University of

Connecticut, Special Collections and Archives

• One collection: Thomas J. Dodd Nuremberg trial papers

• Approx. 20,000 digital objects: text documents of the Nuremberg trial team

• One presentation layer: archives.lib.uconn.edu

The CTDA in 2016• 40+ Institutions: Libraries,

Archives, Museums, Historical Societies, Higher Ed, K-12 Education, State Agencies.

• Hundreds of collections in a broad spectrum of subjects from Algae to Zulus

• More than 300,000 digital objects: texts, images, video, audio, data sets, and more …

• Multiple presentation outlets: 5 web sites, indexing in aggregators: iConn, DPLA, links in connecticuthistory.org, and more

Zulu Circus Poster, Bridgeport History Center

Benthic Marine Algae HerbariumUConn

Making ConnectionsSearch for "New London"• 4,000 objects• 6 different formats• 17 different institutions

By the Numbers

http://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/ctda_all_stats

History• Old Towpath School, Avon

Free Public Library• Gallaudet Hall, American

School for the Deaf

Art• Landscape, Lieutenant River,

Lyman Allyn Art Museum• Sea Storm, Hartford Public

Library

Law and Sport• Regulations of the State of

Connecticut, Connecticut State Library

• Keney Park, Hartford History Center

Boats and Trains

Aerotrain #3, UConnSport fishing boat “Bulldog” Mystic Seaport

Tragedy…Hurricane of 1938• CT State Archives (top)• Fairfield Museum and History

Center (bottom)

…and Triumph• Remembering WWI,

Connecticut State Archives

News• Amity Star, Case Memorial

Library • Southington News,

Northampton Valley Times, Connecticut State Library

Letters• Vivien Kellems papers,

UConn• American Revolution

Collection, CHS

CTDA Development• Phase I: Infrastructure

Building (2011-13)• Phase II: Collection Building

(2013-15)• Phase III: Connection

Building (2016- )

Functionality• 2016

• Compound object display• Map display• Newspaper batch upload

• 2017• External batch upload (no

zips!)• 2018

• Fedora 4• Open APIs direct to Fedora

(allows non-Islandora display of repository content) UConn

Governance• Advisory Committee

membership renewals/new members

• Technical Roadmap Discussion

Connecticut Historical Society

Architecture• 2017

• Storage architecture on University servers

• Third-location redundancy through APTrust/DPN/AWS Glacier

New Britain Museum of American Art

Fedora 4 (2018)• Linked Data• Extended Scalability and

Clustering• Enhanced extensibility • Enhanced modularity• Islandora as middleware

decoupled from Drupal

Thank you!Greg ColatiUniversity of Connecticut Librarygreg@uconn.edu

http://ctdigitalarchive.org

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