ctda update, march 2015
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What is the CTDA?
• A service of the University of
Connecticut Libraries that
preserves, manages, and
makes available permanently
valuable cultural data and
other records produced and
collected by non-profit
educational, cultural, and
memory institutions based in
Connecticut
• The service hub in
Connecticut for the Digital
Public Library of America
SNET, 1946, UConn
Use Only What You Need:
• Preservation Services
• Access Services
• Metadata Services
• Management Tools
• Indexing and Discovery
Services
• Reformatting Services
Preservation
Services*
• Secure, redundant storage up to
500GB without charge
• Preservation activities
• Migration (for supported file types)
• Verification
• Authenticity guarantees
*Note: Some services are fee-based
Access Services
• Presentation Channels
• Viewers for supported file types
• Web search engine indexing
• OAI-PMH harvesting
• Indexing in the Digital Public
Library of America, iConn
• Inclusion in Connecticut
History Illustrated (for content
you specify)
• Open APIs, embed codes; for
indexing, content extraction,
viewer re-use
• Custom channels scoped to
organizational content
*Note: Some services are fee-based
• Basic system training
• How-to documentation from the
CTDA website
• Metadata consultation
• Data migration and conversion
for ingest
• Custom forms and tools
*Note: Some services are fee-based
Metadata and
Management
Services*
Indexing Services
• Harvesting by DPLA
• Harvesting by iConn
• Open OAI supplier for indexing
• Search engine optimization for
discovery by Google, Bing, etc.
Reformatting
Services
• Reformatting services are
charged on a cost-recovery basis
• Digital capture of flat material:
paper, photos, graphics,
reflective and transparent, up to
12” X 18” (and larger for some
document types)
• Bound-volume digital capture
• Basic audio conversion of limited
formats
• We do not currently offer moving
image conversion services
Find Out More
ctdigitalarchive.org
• General information
• Service Catalog
• How-to documents
• News and information about
CTDA activities
• Links to production channels
• More!
SNET, 1947
CTDA Collections
• Persistent resolver for handles
for general participants
• All the content, all the time, no
matter what the subject
• Primary harvest site
http://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org
Manage Channels
• Separate ingest server provides
higher throughput and without
impact on presentation channels
• http://manage.ctdigitalarchive.org
• http://manage.archives.lib.uconn.edu
One System, Many Faces
UConn Archives CHI
CTDA Repository Service
Presentation Channel Service
manage.ctdigitalarchive
CTDA Collections
manage.archives
CTDA Harvest Service (Spring 2015)
Repox
Trinity College
CT State Library
Management/Presentation Channel Service
Research@UConn
External Management/Presentation
Systems
Management Channel Service
Local Collections
Management System
External tools and uses
Behind the Scenes
UConn Archives-stage Trinity College-stage
CTDA Repository Staging Service
CT State Library-stageCTDA Collections-stage
Management/Presentation Channel Staging Service
Staging Fedora instance
Farther Behind the Scenes
UConn Archives-dev
CTDA Repository Staging Service
Development Channel
Staging Fedora instance
11 institutions migrated.
5 still to go:
• Connecticut Historical Society
• Connecticut State Library
• Mystic Seaport
• Hartford History Center
• New Haven Museum
CHO Migration
CTDA Participants
• Avon Free Public Library
• Barnum Museum
• Bibliomation
• Bridgeport History Center
• Connecticut Historical
Society
• Connecticut State Data
Center
• Connecticut State Library
• Eastern Connecticut State
University
• Fairfield Museum and
Historical Society
• Florence Griswold Museum
• Groton Public Library
• Hartford History Center at
the Hartford Public Library
• Ivoryton Library Association
• Lyman Allyn Art Museum
• Mattatuck Museum
• Mystic Arts Center
• Mystic Seaport
• New Britain Museum of
American Art
• New Haven Museum
• Stonington Historical Society
• Slater Memorial Museum
• Trinity College Library
• UConn, Archives and Special
Collections
• Wadsworth Atheneum
• Western Connecticut State
University
Repository Content
• 185,000+ assets being managed
• 19 institutions
• 11,000+ OAI records for harvest
Florence Griswold Museum
Connecticut Historical Society
Trinity College
Fairfield Museum
Connecticut State Library
Groton Public Library
Grants and Projects
• Connecticut Collections
(submitted) with CLHO
• Remembering WWI (submitted)
with CSL
• eRegs (active) with CSL and
UConn Library
• Omeka/Fedora Connector (in
process) with DMD/Digital
Humanities
Jacob Gworek, Connecticut State Library
Visit Today!
• ctdigitalarchive.org
• archives.lib.uconn.edu
• collections.ctdigitalarchive.org
• http://digitalcollections.ctstatelibrary.org/
• http://ctcollections.trincoll.edu
• http://connecticuthistoryillustrated.org