CT Digital ArchiveBrown Bag

October 7, 2016

What is the CTDA?The C TDA is a program hosted by the University of C onnecticut Library in collaboration with the C onnecticut State Library.

It is a state wide program that offers long-term preservation services for C onnecticut based non-profit institutions.

Services include:

• Technical infrastructure

• End user/ participant support

• G overnance

• Education/ training

• State of C onnecticut DPLA Service Hub

• State of C onnecticut ResearchIT C ontent C ontributor

• Accessible documentation such as participant resources, code repositories, statistics, …

Participation rather than membership

Participants include:

• UC onn

• C onnecticut State Library

• C onnecticut Historical Society

• Avon Public Library

• G roton Public Library

• American School for the Deaf

• Trinity C ollege

• Mystic Seaport

• Hartford Public Library/ Hartford History C enter

• Bridgeport History C enter

• Barnum Museum

• And so many more…..

Collaborative Governance rather than directive charge

G overnance includes:

• Advisory C ommittee: comprised of 8- 12 members of colleagues and peers from the cultural heritage, digital preservation, and academic communities in C T. http:/ / collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/ advisory- committee

• Technical Roadmap discussion: open discussion held in person and virtually once a month on how to chart the short and long term technical infrastructure of the C TDA. http:/ / collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/ technical- roadmap

• C TDA Tech Meeting: C TDA and ITS staff meet to discuss C TDA infrastructure such as migration, storage growth needs or boosting performance

Education/ TrainingC TDA offers in person and virtual workshops, how- to documents, and online videos on:

• How to add and manage content

• Object modeling

• Describing content

• C leaning up messy data

• C reating records for batch import

• New functionality

C TDA tracks inquiries from participants and users through HelpSpot.

Infrastructure

C TDA works with a vendor and our own ITS staff to ensure that participants can add and manage content. Development is tracked with Trello and HelpSpot.

C TDA has:

• Development sprints: used to build new features not offered as part of the current open source systems. Examples include the data harvester, external batch ingest service, themes, or new tools

• Maintenance sprints: C TDA is on a quarterly schedule to update identified components that range from software to patches to servers

What’s New?We just finished a maintenance sprint. What did we do?

• Brought all Islandora and Drupal sites to “head”

• C ompleted work on the external batch ingest service for a 1st test run

• Investigated how to update the eRegulations automated workflow

• Developed test scenarios for the external batch ingest service

• Re-ran the index in the background

• C ompleted the migration of the C TDA main website from the Library’s hosted WordPress site to the Drupal site

• Updated our core library with these new tools• G IS tool developed by DG I to allow users to download the

original resource and an associated zip file for all cartographic material

• Ordered newspaper batch import developed by DG I to allow users to batch import multiple newspaper issues and pages at the same time

• On this day developed by Mark Jordan displays resources that occurred on this day

• Batch derivative generation developed Daniel Aitken to allow only an administrator to regenerate DC descriptions.

What’s on the horizon?

• Rethinking infrastructure

• Migrating from Fedora 3 to 4

• Migrating from Drupal 7 to 8

• Migrating from Islandora 7.x.1 to 7.x.2

• Hiring a repository analysist

• Enhancing users’ experience

• Looking at new ways to share and re- use content

• Rethinking our data harvester

Questions?ctda@uconn.edu