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A Cloud of Your Own: Preservation & Access Services from the Connecticut Digital ArchiveGreg ColatiCLHO Annual MeetingJune, 2015
The Dilemma of Modern Stewardship, 1815How do we insure resources that support cultural activities that exist today will reliably exist and be discoverable in the future?
1815 2015
The Dilemma of Modern Media, 1915
The Dilemma of Modern Media, 1995
Cultural Armageddon, 2000s
Cultural Armageddon, 2011
Source: University of Southern CaliforniaCredit: Todd Lindeman and Brian Vastag/ The Washington Post
The Dilemma of Modern Stewardship, 2015How do we insure that resources that support cultural activities that exist in digital form today will reliably exist and be discoverable in the future?
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2015 2215
Connect: Participants and users interact with the repository and each other in various ways.
Preserve: Preservation of access in whatever forms and schemas you desire.
Share: Facilitates sharing of content, but does not control or determine how, where, or why.
What is the CTDA?A set of services 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 ConnecticutThe service hub in Connecticut for the Digital Public Library of America
SNET, 1946, UConn
Ownership vs. Stewardship• Participants retain
ownership of all content: metadata, primary content objects, and derivatives
• CTDA is the steward of the digital assets
• Low barrier to entry: minimal standards for participation
• Participants are responsible for their own content
Organization, Participation and Governance• A service of the UConn
Libraries• Core services NOT grant
funded• UCL subsidizes 85% of the
cost of the system• Participatory model, not a
membership organization• Advisory Committees:
• CTDA Advisory: general roadmap and development of the CTDA program
• CTDA Tech: roadmap for technology developments for CTDA services
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• Permanent, globally unique
identifiers*Note: Some services are fee-based
Management Tools• Browser-based, no software
to load or update• Load content singly or in
groups• Only you can manage your
content• Separate ingest server
provides higher throughput without impact on presentation channels
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
CTDA Collections • All the content, all the time,
no matter what the subject• Primary harvest site for
external aggregators• Persistent resolver for
handles for general participants
http://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org
• 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
CTDA Participants (May 2015)
• 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• Wesleyan University• Western Connecticut State
University
Repository Content• 217,000+ assets being
managed• 20 institutions in production• 14,000+ OAI records for
harvestFlorence Griswold
Museum
Connecticut Historical Society
Trinity College
Fairfield Museum
Connecticut State LibraryGroton Public Library
Grants and ProjectsGrants support individual participants’ content needs and infrastructure building for everyone• Connecticut Collections
(submitted) with Connecticut League of History Organizations
• Digitizing Atwater: Nutrition, Agriculture and Home Economics in the long 19th Century (submitted) with Wesleyan University
• eRegs (active) with CSL and UConn Library
Jacob Gworek, Connecticut State Library
Credits (In Order of Appearance) Certificate of membership in Windham County Agricultural Society, Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut,
hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:20110263 Wax Cylinder: Flickr image from the National Film and Sound Archive Australia Digital Media, author’s personal collection CBS News, January 23, 2003 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/coming-soon-a-digital-dark-age/ accessed May 13, 2015. Storage Capacity: Source: University of Southern California, Credit: Todd Lindeman and Brian Vastag/ The Washington Post iPhoto Library, author’s personal collection Employment and Application Process, Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut,
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:859919931 Herd of Cattle, Fairfield Museum and History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/80002:94 Locomotive: Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:199714469 Group Portrait with Band, Connecticut Historical Society, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:11337 Thames Bank, Connecticut Historical Society, hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:10919 Winthrop House and Mill, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/170002:21 Osborn-Jennings-Lonsdale, Fairfield Museum and History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/80002:184 Pickelhaube, Connecticut State Library, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:982 Farmer Roscoe, Florence Griswold Museum, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/270002:1 Fairfield Beach, Fairfield Museum and History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/80002:210 Ayshire Calves, Groton Public Library, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/180002:10 Sheff 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, Trinity College,
http://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/islandora/object/120002%3Asheff25 Jacob Gworek with Bugle, Connecticut State Library, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:1144 Mobile Radio Telephone, Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut,
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:199707190
Find Out Morectdigitalarchive.org• General information• Service Catalog• How-to documents• News and information about
CTDA activities• Links to production channels• More!
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