Alliance Digital Repository Overview for Marmot

Presentation to the Marmot library consortium Digital Repository Task Force

Transcript

1. http://www.coalliance.org Alliance Digital Repository Marmot Digital Repository Task Force October 24, 2014 Robin Dean Digital Repository Director robin@coalliance.org
2. Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Membership Organization Non-Profit 501(c)(3) “The Alliance”
3. Alliance Services Prospector Union Catalog E-Resource Purchasing Digital Repository & Preservation Gold Rush® E-Resource Management
4. Digital Repository & Digital Preservation
5. Digital Preservation Physical Preservation http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_Closeup.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/hillarie/2275318161
6. Why is digital preservation important? You have unique and irreplaceable digital content. You don’t have the time or money to replace digitized content.
7. Do I need a digital repository? You want to share your unique digital content more sustainably. You want to ensure your digital content can still be used in 5 years . . . and beyond.
8. …what’s different about digital repositories? There are a lot of ways to share content online…
9. Digital repositories are online • Online access for patrons & researchers (browsers or mobile devices) • Indexed by search engines • Discoverable in library catalog • User accounts & access controls • A way to get things in…and a way to get them out!
10. What’s different about digital repositories? Balance of access and preservation • Persistent links to files • Metadata standards (XML) • Files & metadata . . .together, forever! • Trust and authenticity
11. Alliance Digital Repository We: host, monitor, backup, store, upgrade, train, document, recommend, consult You: upload, describe, share
12. ADR Technology Islandora online display & access based on Drupal Fedora Commons digital file storage & organization
13. The ADR runs on open source! https://github.com/islandora https://github.com/fcrepo3/fcrepo Also: • Apache & Tomcat (web server) • Solr (search and indexing) • Ubuntu (server operating system) • …and many more!
14. ADR Hardware Primary hosting at Univ. of Wyoming Backup and test servers at Univ. of Denver Additional backup in DuraCloud (Amazon Web Services/Storage)
15. Free resources for researchers • Colorado State Publications Library • Digital Archives of Colorado College • Digital DU (University of Denver) • Digital UNC (University of Northern Colorado) • Digital UW (University of Wyoming) • JeffCo Stories Oral History Project • Regis University Digital Repository
16. Historical materials Sets in Order, Vol. 1 No. 6 (June, 1949): http://hdl.handle.net/10176/codu:59263
17. Local history: in their own words Interview with Priscilla Winter, August 22, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10176/colwjcpl:59
18. Current issues in Colorado & the West Digital Archives of Colorado College, 2013 State of the Rockies Report Card - http://hdl.handle.net/10176/coccc:9017
19. State government resources Wildfire Insurance and Forest Health Task Force: report to the Governor of Colorado, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, 2013: http://hdl.handle.net/10176/co:12559
20. Video interviews Chomsky Family Collection, First Interview with Noam Chomsky: http://hdl.handle.net/10176/codr:2925
21. Records & governance 1974 Board of Trustees meeting documents, University of Northern Colorado, http://digitalunc.coalliance.org/islandora/object/cogru:3420
22. Scanned books University of Wyoming, Botanical Field Books, http://uwyo.coalliance.org/islandora/object/wyu%3A12002#page/1/mode/2up
23. http://www.coalliance.org Questions? Robin Dean Digital Repository Director robin@coalliance.org http://www.coalliance.org