Collaborative Data Archiving and Access: Developing a Shared Repository Infrastructure to Increase Funding Competitiveness What is the CTDA? The Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) is a collaborative effort of the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut Libraries and the Connecticut State Library. The CTDA is dedicated to the maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide-range of digital resources for educational and cultural institutions and state agencies in the State of Connecticut. Persistent Identifiers The CTDA implements the Handle System to provide persistent and unique identifiers for digital assets. The Handle System is a component of CNRI’s Digital Object Architecture and provides a means of managing digital information in a network environment. UConn Archives CTDA Collections CT History Illustrated Research @ UConn CT State Library Trinity College Presentation Channel Service Management/Presentation Channel Service manage.archives manage.ctdigitalarchive Management Channel Service CTDA Harvest Service Repox CTDA Repository Service Technology The CTDA is built on the open source Fedora Commons architecture and uses a number of open source tools, applications, and services. The Fedora repository architecture is currently in production in hundreds of academic, governmental, and cultural organizations around the world. The CTDA’s current management and presentation platform is Islandora. Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage and discover digital assets. Islandora development is now managed by the Islandora Foundation a non- profit membership organization. Content Owners Collaborations The CTDA provides the preservation oriented infrastructure for educational and cultural institutions and state agencies in the State of Connecticut. Each collaborator maintains ownership of the original digital objects and signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which provides details on the services provided, fees, and long term preservation and migration of content. Explore! To learn more about the CTDA and to explore the growing collections visit: http://ctdigitalarchive.org [email protected] Connecticut Digital Archive Connect. Preserve. Share Background image: State Capitol Building, Hartford from University of Connecticut Libraries Archives and Special Collections http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:199702938

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Collaborative Data Archiving and Access: Developing a Shared Repository Infrastructure to Increase Funding Competitiveness

What is the CTDA? The Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) is a collaborative effort of the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut Libraries and the Connecticut State Library. The CTDA is dedicated to the maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide-range of digital resources for educational and cultural institutions and state agencies in the State of Connecticut.

Persistent Identifiers The CTDA implements the Handle System to provide persistent and unique identifiers for digital assets. The Handle System is a component of CNRI’s Digital Object Architecture and provides a means of managing digital information in a network environment.

UConn Archives CTDA Collections CT History Illustrated Research @ UConn CT State Library Trinity College

Presentation Channel Service Management/Presentation Channel Service

manage.archives manage.ctdigitalarchive

Management Channel Service

CTDA Harvest Service

Repox

CTDA Repository Service

Technology The CTDA is built on the open source Fedora Commons architecture and uses a number of open source tools, applications, and services. The Fedora repository architecture is currently in production in hundreds of academic, governmental, and cultural organizations around the world. The CTDA’s current management and presentation platform is Islandora. Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage and discover digital assets. Islandora development is now managed by the Islandora Foundation a non-profit membership organization.

Content Owners

Collaborations The CTDA provides the preservation oriented infrastructure for educational and cultural institutions and state agencies in the State of Connecticut. Each collaborator maintains ownership of the original digital objects and signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which provides details on the services provided, fees, and long term preservation and migration of content.

Explore!

To learn more about the CTDA and to explore the growing collections visit: http://ctdigitalarchive.org [email protected] Connecticut Digital Archive Connect. Preserve. Share

Background image: State Capitol Building, Hartford from University of Connecticut Libraries Archives and Special Collections http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:199702938

http://ctdigitalarchive.org/