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

CTDA Participants

(March 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

• Western Connecticut State

University

Repository Content

• 185,000+ assets being managed

• 19 institutions in production

• 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

Grants support individual

participants’ content needs and

infrastructure building for everyone

• Connecticut Collections

(submitted) with Connecticut

League of History Organizations

• Remembering WWI (submitted)

with Connecticut State Library

• eRegs (active) with CSL and

UConn Library

• Omeka/Fedora Connector (in

process) with UConn

DMD/Digital Humanities Jacob Gworek, Connecticut State Library

Visit Today!

• ctdigitalarchive.org

• collections.ctdigitalarchive.org

• archives.lib.uconn.edu

• http://digitalcollections.ctstatelibrary.org/

• http://ctcollections.trincoll.edu

• http://connecticuthistoryillustrated.org