ArchiveSphere

Penn State RepositoryBy Carolyn Cole

What is ArchiveSphere?

• ArchiveSphere is a Hydra Based web application specific to preserving and providing access to Penn State's archival collections.

The Differences Between ArchiveSphere and ScholarSphere

• Intended users– ScholarSphere is for all students, faculty and staff– ArchiveSphere is for the Archives Department

• Structure of the Data– ScholarSphere the file is king– ArchiveSphere the ingest is king

• Data Requirements– ArchiveSphere can have PII

What is the Same?

• The technology!• Both are comprised of the same gems– hydra-head– sufia– hydra-collections– many additional dependencies

ArchiveSphere walkthrough

• The demo is not available to the general public. Only a small portion of PSU users have access to the system.

Future Work

• Additional preservation metadata work• Arrangement and description tools• Public access to arranged and sanitized

collections• Integration with other archival tools

Questions/ Contacts

• Any Questions?• Source code:

https://github.com/psu-stewardship/archivesphere

• Carolyn Cole (cam156@psu.edu)• Ben Goldman (bmg17@psu.edu)

Screen Shot Demo Follows…

All Screens are behind security

User’s Dashboard displays Collections

Minimal metadata to create a new Collection

Automatically redirected to create an Ingest

Ingest Display

Upload files from local machine, Dropbox, and network folders

Ingest occurs in background

User is notified when ingest completes

Files displayed in original folder structure

Each file display allows access to derivatives and characterization information

Collection can contain one or more ingests