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The Connecticut Digital Archive:The Data Set for Research and Discovery
CT Data Collaborative Ignite
November, 2014
What We Have Seen: Using Primary Resources in Work and
Play
Analog=Non-existent If it isn’t online, I don’t want it
Unconnected= Invisible If I can’t find it online I won’t use it
Collections=Data I want things that I can manipulate
Value=Reusable I want to do what I want with it
Storytelling=Visualization I want to use things in “apps”
Cyberinfrastructure and the Cultural 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 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).
Everything can be data…
"When it was made simple, counted in bits, information was
found to be everywhere"
-James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
(2011)
"It is not just about the data, it is about the story"
-Arianna Huffington (2012)
…and be used to tell a story
Connecticut’s Material Culture and Heritage:
17th through 20th Centuries
How do we UNLOCK data from analog originals?
What Will We Collect in the Next Century?
What best documents Connecticut's history, society, and culture In
the 21st century?
The Dilemma of Modern Stewardship, 2014
How do we insure that resources that exist in digital form today will
reliably exist and be accessible in the future?
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Digital repositories
allow data to be used
in one environment …
… reused in others…
… and repurposed in
still others.
What is the CTDA?
• A service of the University of Connecticut Libraries in
partnership with the Connecticut State Library
• Aggregates digital resources for preservation, use, and
reuse
• The service hub in Connecticut for the Digital Public Library
of America
The CTDA Today
• More than 90,000 digital
objects
• More than a dozen
organizations in various
stages of participation across
the spectrum of libraries,
archives, higher education,
and museums
• Multiple formats: audio,
video, images, texts, data sets.
Content Owners Discovery & AccessInfrastructure
Aggregators
PreservationInfrastructure
Deposit Agreements & MOUs
Organ
ization
Sites
Ownership vs Stewardship
• Organizations retain ownership
of all metadata, primary content
objects and derivatives.
• Metadata contributed as a CC0
license
• Content objects and derivatives
are generally open for use and
reuse.
Systems in Action (For Example)
UConn Archives CT State Library CHI
External Channels
Local Collections Management System
CTDA Central Repository
CTDA Hosted
Management System
CTDA Hosted Presentation Channels
External tools and usesDPLA iConn
External Management
Systems
For More Information
Slides and text available at: http://www.slideshare.net/Gcolati/
Visit the CTDA Website: http://ctdigitalarchive.org
Contact the CTDA at: [email protected]
or talk to me directly:
Greg Colati
Assistant University Librarian
for Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Curation
University of Connecticut Libraries
860.486.4501
