News and notes from the June 2016 Advisory Committee meeting.

1. The Connecticut Digital Archive
Serving Connecticut’s cultural heritage community since 2013
June, 2016
Greg Colati, AUL for Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Curation

2. New Logo!
An abstract representation of the
CTDA's mission and activity.
Central repository services with
different branches that break the
boundaries of traditional digital
repositories and libraries.

3. New Theme!!

4. Cyberinfrastructure and the Human Record
“Digital cultural heritage resources are a fundamental
dataset for the humanities…
… combined with computer networks and software tools,
[they] now shape the way that scholars [and all interested
people] discover and make sense of the human record…
… [and] the way their findings are communicated to
students, colleagues, and the general public.”
"The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences." American
Council of Learned Societies (2006)

5. The Dilemma of Modern Preservation
2016 2???
?
How do we insure that resources that support inquiry and
research that exist in digital form today, will reliably exist and
be discoverable in the future?

6. CTDA Development
• Phase I: Infrastructure Building
(2011-13)
• Phase II: Collection Building
(2013-15)
• Phase III: Connection Building
(2016- )

7. The CTDA in 2013
• One institution: University of
Connecticut, Special Collections
and Archives
• One collection: Thomas J. Dodd
Nuremberg trial papers
• Approx. 20,000 digital objects:
text documents of the
Nuremberg trial team
• One presentation layer:
archives.lib.uconn.edu

8. The CTDA in 2016
• 40+ Institutions: Libraries,
Archives, Museums, Historical
Societies, Higher Ed, K-12
Education, State Agencies.
• Hundreds of collections in a
broad spectrum of subjects
from Algae to Zulus
• More than 300,000 digital
objects: texts, images, video,
audio, data sets, and more …
• Multiple presentation outlets: 5
web sites, indexing in
aggregators: iConn, DPLA,
links in connecticuthistory.org,
and more

9. Making Connections
Search for "New London"
• 4,000 objects
• 6 different formats
• 17 different institutions

10. By the Numbers
http://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/ctda_all_stats

11. History
• Old Towpath School, Avon Free
Public Library
• Gallaudet Hall, American School
for the Deaf

12. Art
• Landscape, Lieutenant River,
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
• Sea Storm, Hartford Public
Library

13. Law and Sport
• Regulations of the State of
Connecticut, Connecticut State
Library
• Keney Park, Hartford History
Center

14. Boats and Trains
Aerotrain #3, UConn
Sport fishing boat “Bulldog” Mystic Seaport

15. Tragedy…
Hurricane of 1938
• CT State Archives (top)
• Fairfield Museum and History
Center (bottom)

16. …and Triumph
• Remembering WWI,
Connecticut State Archives

17. News
• Amity Star, Case Memorial
Library
• Southington News, Northampton
Valley Times, Connecticut State
Library

18. Letters
• Vivien Kellems papers, UConn
• American Revolution Collection,
CHS

19. CTDA Development
• Phase I: Infrastructure Building
(2011-13)
• Phase II: Collection Building
(2013-15)
• Phase III: Connection Building
(2016- )

20. Functionality
• 2016
• Compound object display
• Map display
• Newspaper batch upload
• 2017
• External batch upload (no
zips!)
• 2018
• Fedora 4
• Open APIs direct to Fedora
(allows non-Islandora display
of repository content)

21. Governance
• Advisory Committee
membership renewals/new
members
• Technical Roadmap Discussion
Connecticut Historical Society

22. Architecture
• 2017
• Storage architecture on
University servers
• Third-location redundancy
through APTrust/DPN/AWS
Glacier

23. Fedora 4 (2018)
• Linked Data
• Extended Scalability and
Clustering
• Enhanced extensibility
• Enhanced modularity
• Islandora as middleware
decoupled from Drupal

24. Thank you!
Greg Colati
University of Connecticut Library
greg@uconn.edu
http://ctdigitalarchive.org