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The Connecticut Digital Archive: A Repository for Digital Culture
Greg Colati, University of Connecticut
October 22, 2012
Why the CTDA? Connecticut’s digital cultural heritage is:
Ephemeral Fragmented Not easily discoverable or reusable
What is the CTDA? An idea and a plan for a service that will
provide: digital preservation and curation for permanently
valuable digital assets for cultural heritage institutions in Connecticut
a general point of access for resources about Connecticut that is open and available to all
Instructions for building services using its resources
Tools to manage digital assets
Who is the CTDA?Currently a loose association of interested institutions with seed funding from:
NEH Foundations Grant Application pending, notification in March 2013 Engage interested organizations across the state Develop the organizational framework for a state-
wide digital repository Four workgroups:
Governance Access/Use Content/Scope Technical Platform
Produce an organizational handbook Plan for implementation Prototype infrastructure
Example Content Owners/Relationships•Archives and Manuscripts
•Institutional Repository
•Research Data
•State Publications
•Archival Records
MAGIC/
CSDS
•Map Resources•Geographic Data Sets
•Curated CT Resources:
•Historical Societies
•Libraries•Museums, etc.
Other Partne
rs
•Colleges•Museums•Libraries•Any content provider
Central:• Program
Administration• Technical
Infrastructure• Governance• Working groups
Local:• Management• Presentation
Example Presentation Layers
CTDA
CTDA general portal
CHO
Connecticut history.org
State Library
Custom portals
Data supplied to consumerData/presentation supplied for consumer
Partner Framework
Management Layer
Presentation (Access) Layer
Information UniverseRe-use and exchange
Management: CTDA
CTDA
Repository (Preservation) Layer
Dig
ital
Obje
cts
Meta
data
Policies, Controls, Preservation Activities CTDA Repository
CHO Others…
External aggregators and direct links
Management: OthersManagement: Partner
Others…
Current NEH Foundations Grant participants: Connecticut State Library University of Connecticut Mystic Seaport Museum Connecticut Historical Society Trinity College Hartford History Center Capital Community College Barnum Museum Western Connecticut State University American Antiquarian Society
Goals Short Term: (1 – 2 years)
Build the organizational and technical infrastructure Identify participants Pilot test system and collections
Near Term (2 - 4 years) Secure permanent funding for digital cultural heritage
preservation Load data from participating organizations Open to the public Connect the CTDA to national and international data
aggregators like the Digital Public Library of America Long Term (now until ????)
Preserve Connecticut culture for future generations
Join Us!
Greg ColatiSr. Director, Archives, Special Collections and Digital Curation
University of Connecticut