Big Sky Country Digital Network Dashboard

Service Hub - multi state: Montana, North Dakota

Contacts

Name and URLBig Sky Country Digital Network
Point of contact

Jennifer Birnel, Montana Memory Project

Montana State Library

406.438.2041

jbirnel@mt.gov

Network Council Rep and Alternate

Angela Hauser (ahouser@nd.gov) - Network Council Representative

 Alternate Molly Kruckenberg (mkruckenberg@mt.gov)

Staff Profile

The BSCDN is currently staffed by the partner institutions each contributing employee time to do the work of the hub.  Montana State Library and Montana State University have agreed to do the majority of the hub work with two existing positions.

Number of Partners69
Current Record Sethttps://dp.la/search?partner%5B%5D=Big+Sky+Country+Digital+Network

Organization

Year accepted2017
Date of First IngestAugust 2017
Lead/Key InstitutionsBig Sky Country Digital Network (BSCDN) is a partnership of the Montana State Library (MSL), Montana Historical Society, Montana State University, the University of Montana, and the North Dakota State Library. Montana State Library maintains the REPOX harvester and is responsible for ingests.  Montana State University provides tech support and assist with issues that arise with REPOX. Montana State University also writes XLST and maintains a test instance or REPOX.
Services Offered

BSCDN aggregates partners' metadata into a single standard, addressing metadata concerns (including copyright and licensing labeling), and working with partners to remediate issues. BSCDN is supported by in-state partners who understand the opportunities and challenges of our Montana community.

BSCDN provides assistance by sharing tools and techniques for quality assurance, normalization, standardization, and metadata enhancement. This assistance may be in-person or supported with webinars or online training.

BSCDN provides guidelines and support for digitization, long-term storage, and preservation activities. We communicate with partners and community through professional development and community outreach opportunities, and we share our knowledge and learn from other hubs in the DPLA network.

Hub Ingest Details

Feed locationhttp://repox.msl.mt.gov:8080/repox/OAIHandler
Metadata Prefix/schema 
mods
FirewallNo
Sets to includeAll
Aggregation TechnologyRepox
State/regional portalno portal

DPLA Ingest Details

Ingestion Profileingestion3
MAPv4 CrosswalkMODS to MAPv4
Mapping (code)ingestion3 mapper
Harvesteringestion3 OAI harvester
DPLA ID based on"mt--" + <header><identifier>

For details of ingest scheduling see the Hub Re-Ingest Schedule