Connecticut Digital Archive

Hub Details

Main Contact: Greg Colati
UConn Library
Assistant University Librarian for University Archives, Special Collections & Digital Curation
860-486-4501
gregory.colati@uconn.edu

Ingest: Michael Howser (michael.howser@uconn.edu)

Metadata Contact: Greg Colati

Technical Contact: Greg Colati

Current record count: See Monthly Hub Record Count

Hub Type: Service

Application: n/a

Application Accepted Date: n/a

DAE signed date:

Data Exchange Agreement:

Initial Ingest Information Form: Connecticut-DPLAIngestInformationForm

First data ingest: TBD (for most recent ingest date see: Hub Ingest Schedule)

Permissions contact list

Ingest Details

Feed Type: OAI PMH

Metadata format: Dublin Core

Feed location: http://harvest.ctdigitalarchive.org:8080/repox/OAIHandler

Metadata Prefix (CASE SENSITIVE): rdf

Sets to include: CTDA

System: ingestion3

Data Aggregation Technology used at Hub:

2016 Hub Survey (line 23)

Content collections and highlights

Notes/History:

Connecticut applied and was accepted very early on, but had trouble getting their technology implemented
The hub relies on technology support from UConn IT, which means they have to put in a formal request and wait to be scheduled for a sprint
Jennifer runs the REPOX implementation and can do the XSLT implementation herself
The initial ingest was to include quite a large number of records from Yale (about 100,000), however, due to the way Yale's digital library had been set up, there was no way to tell records from digitized objects from non-digitized ones. Furthermore, links in the records all led back to the record in the Yale digital library catalog for the item that was entered first (i.e. all the links led to the wrong thing).
Because of the above issue, we are going forward (in late October 2016), with just the non-Yale items (only about 50,000). Yale is actually fixing their records (this was a legacy implementation and not favored anyway), and think that work will be done in Spring 2017.