ctda annual meeting 2016
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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
