CT Digital ArchiveC TDA Advisory C ommittee

Virtual Meeting, October 13, 20162:30 – 4:00 pm

Welcome

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

Grants, Projects & Presentations

C onnecticut Historical Society

Maritime C onnecticut

Barnum Museum and Bridgeport History C enter

C TDA Brown Bag for UC onn Library Staff

Any others?

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

New Participants

Now working on ingesting a civil war diary:

• Bill Memorial Library

Interested in becoming participants:

• Enfield C onnecticut Historical Society

• Litchfield Historical Society

• Norfolk Historical Society

Hobart and Bulkley Houses, Fairfield Museum and History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/80002:358

Updates on Infrastructure

Maintenance:

• Recently updated systems

• Added 4 new tools:• G IS cartographic tool for users• Ordered Newspaper Issue batch for

participant• On this day for C TDA C ollections• Batch derivative trigger for C TDA admin

purposes only

Performance:

We’re investigating ways to improve performance in terms of the speed with which pages load, the amount of time to index an object, or handling large amounts of content being ingested at the same time. Ideas and solutions will be discussed at the Technical Roadmap discussion. Updates can be seen on the C TDA Trello Development board.

Dogwood Trees, Fairfield Museum and History Center, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/80002:307

ContentThe number of objects managed by C TDA rose by approximately 2.7% to now over 391,241 objects since the last meeting.

The number of records harvested is now over 44000 which is approximately a 2 .27% increase since the last meeting.

C TDA is currently being harvested by ResearchIT and UC onn Libraries ILS’ discovery layer Primo. C TDA is in the final stages of the process with DPLA. ResearchIT, Primo, and DPLA pull only the descriptions which include your Held By, rights, citable link, and a link to the thumbnail of the object for display. Once a user clicks on the citable link, they are taken to the appropriate C TDA channel.

Lake Bantam, Litchfield, Connecticut, Connecticut Historical Society, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:9850

Workshops & Resources

The 1st in person workshop on Open Refine and MODS was held at Avon Free Public Library!

Video tutorials are now on C TDA’s website. Topics include:

• Introduction to the C TDA

• How to ingest a manuscript

• How to ingest a newspaper

C TDA also has how to documents on its SlideShare space. The newest document is how to use the ordered newspaper issue batch import.

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

Towpath School, class of 1917, Avon Free Public Library, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/150002:48

Questions?

Any comments or questions?Stay tuned for the Doodle poll to schedule the next virtual meeting.

Good-bye Dearie. It is for the Honor of the Flag, recto. Connecticut State Library, http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:5337735