CTDA:

Preservation & Access Services

for Connecticut’s Digital History

Greg Colati

March 13, 2015

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

CHO-CHI/CTDA

Migration

16 participating institutions

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