CT Digital ArchiveC TDA Advisory C ommittee

Virtual Meeting, March 23, 20171:30 – 3:00 pm

Welcome

Color changes, Colchester, Slater Memorial Museum, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/230002:22

Grants, Projects & Presentations

• C onnecticut C ollections: C onnecting C TDA and C ollective Access with the C LHO

• Digital Universal Access Project, with C HS

• Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, with Seth Kaufmann, UC onn Dept. of Linguistics

• TeachIT Portfolios• Teachitct.org/ portfolio

• C HI new interface• http:/ / cthistoryillustrated.org/

Israel Putnam’s duel with the British Officer, Connecticut Historical Society, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:11039

New Participants

• EDSN• The Education for Development and

Support Network Foundation (EDSN) is a charitable trust for long-term community engagement in education development and entrepreneurial philanthropy.

• Manchester C ommunity C ollege• First C ommunity C ollege participant

Submarine escape training , Mystic Seaport, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:3859

Hiring UpdateReposted the position for Digital Repository Analyst in January.

Interviews have concluded, we hope to make an offer in early- mid April.

With luck we will have someone begin by mid-May.

The digital repository analyst will be 100% digital repository concentrating on:

• Management tools and functionality

• C onnecting content to third party applications

• Improving the C TDA presentation channels

Employment Office, UConn, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:199725120

Updates on Infrastructure

Draft Timeline:

• 1st steps to upgrade to• MariaDB (April – May 2 017)• Fedora 3.8 (May – June 2 017)

• 2 nd steps to install• Blazegraph package (June – August 2 017)

• 3rd step to change to• Amplidata storage solution (December 2 017)

• July Maintenance Additions:• Add the “Edit MODS” tab• Details for the Manuscript C ontent Model• Normal updates to Drupal and Islandora

Performance:

Our work to improve performance will take place throughout the year. Some of our steps will require some down time as we move to our new storage solution or upgraded Fedora. Remember to consult the C TDA Alert list. This timeline will be shared in the Technical Roadmap discussions held every 4 th

Monday.

Bridge, New Britain Museum of American Art, , http://hdl.handle.net/11134/210002:38

Content Or Data?The C TDA manages over 460,000 objects and over 53,000harvestable records. Each object has between 5 and 15 datastreams, meaning the C TDA manages something in the neighborhood of 4 million files.

The C TDA is beginning to make available data sets for participants.

These sets are available for all participants in Dublin C ore and for UC onn Archives & Special C ollections and the C onnecticut State Library as MODS from:

https:/ / github.com/ C TDA/ metadata_sets/ tree/ master/ 2 017_sets

The MODS sets are the raw harvested data and have not been modified or verified.

The Dublin C ore sets have been converted to spreadsheets but not checked for quality.

Measuring Device, Hartford History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:2915

Workshops & Resources

A MODS workshop is being offered at the Avon Public Library on April 18, 2017 from 2- 4pm.

Missed a workshop or need help? You can request an on- site visit.

The one- day User C onference Event will take place later on this summer in June.

Thank you to the Connecticut Historical Society for hosting this event.

More details to come.

Town Meeting broadside (Detail),Connecticut Historical Society, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:20256

Questions?

Any comments or questions?Stay tuned for the Doodle poll to schedule the next meeting and User C onference.

Oasis D'Neon Rock n' Roll Show poster, UConn,http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860088879