CT Digital Archive

VPC Meeting April 11, 2017

What is the CTDA?

It's a program for digital preservation.

Key Concepts:

• Sustainability

• Reliability

• Authenticity

• Responsibility

• Re-usability

It is not a collection or a repository.

Foundations of House, Branford House. From UConn ASC. http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:199722423

It's an Enterprise System.

The CTDA provides support for all aspects of the

digital preservation program

at the University of Connecticut

as well as 30+ other institutions in Connecticut

Key Components:

• Technology

• Assets

• Policies

• Services

It is a preservation oriented system that is TRAC aspirational.

Sectional Map of New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, Eastern Disctrict –Cape Cod. From UConn ASC MAGIC. http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860236218

Presentation Channel Services

Long Term Preservation Repository

Management Channel Services

Technology

It relies on open source.

Key Components:

• Fedora Commons

• Islandora

• Drupal

• Handle

• Repox

CTDA Harvest Service

Primo Web sites more…

Data Provider Service

Assets

Participants are data stewards. They retain ownership, control, and responsibility for their assets.

Assets grew by over 46% last year. We began with 28,000 assets in November 2013. Today, we have over 500,000 assets, over 51,000 sharable records, and approximately 5 million digital files that are stored, managed, and preserved.

Key Concepts:

• Participant stewardship

• Re-use/Interoperability

InstitutionUConn 58%Connecticut Historical Society 15%Mystic Seaport 11%Hartford History Center (HPL) 7%Connecticut State Library/Archives 3%All Others 6%

Policies

Policies cover all aspects of digital preservation and management.

Key Concepts:

• Ownership

• Roles

• Responsibility

• Rights

• Data standards

• Preservation

• Governance

Aetna employee with astronaut insurance policies. From Hartford History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:925

Services

Services are transparent, proactive, reactive, and responsive.

Key Components:

• Documentation

• End user support

• Education/training

• Communication

• Assessment

• Governance

United States Tires store and gas station, Hartford. From, Hartford History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:279

CTDA and UConn Library

CTDA is a program of UConn Library

Library provides:

• Institutional home

• Technology infrastructure

• Governance infrastructure

• Staff

UConn Library is a participant in the CTDA

Library receives:

• Preservation services

• User support

• A management interface: http://manage.archives.lib.uconn.edu

• A presentation portal

http://archives.lib.uconn.edu

• Inclusion in aggregations (CTDA, DPLA, etc.)

Questions

ctda@uconn.edu

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ctda-alert

http://ctdigitalarchive.org