HBCU LA Digital Initiatives and Platforms An Update

HBCU LA Digital Initiatives and Platforms: An Update HBCU LA Annual Meeting October 8, 2018 Christine Wiseman Head, Digital Services Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Topics HBCU LA Digital Collection Portal Meta. Archive Cooperative

HBCU LA Digital Collection - Background • • • Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University Started in 2005 with funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Five year partnership with LYRASIS and Cornell University Libraries gained expertise in digitization, metadata, digital preservation Platform for online access: CONTENTdm hosted by AUC Scope focused on public domain materials representing the founding of each institution.

HBCU LA Digital Collection - Timeline • • • By 2010, 23 institutions contributed content for a total of 16, 300 images 2010 HBCU LA joined the Meta. Archive Cooperative for digital preservation Until 2018, AUC RWWL hosted CONTENTdm portal. Spring of 2018, portal migrated to OCLC’s cloud hosted version, https: //hbcudigillibrary. auctr. edu/digital/ AUC RWWL continues to provide technical support for CONTENTdm and Meta. Archive

HBCU LA Digital Collection - New Portal https: //hbcudigillibrary. auctr. edu/digital/

HBCU LA Digital Collection - New Portal

HBCU LA Digital Collection New Portal

HBCU LA Digital Collection - New Portal

HBCU LA Digital Collection -Use

Digital preservation network created and hosted by and Welcome to the Cooperative! for memory organizations Sept 17, 2015 Isa bella Stewart G ardner Museum Orienta tion

Meta. Archive History 2004 - Founded as part of NDIIPP funding and activities 2006 - Educopia Institute founded to serve as administrative home for Meta. Archive 2010 – HBCU LA joins as a Collaborative Member 2017 - Celebrated 10 years as membership-based preservation network

Hallmarks of the Meta. Archive • Community-based • • • Affordable • • Open source, LOCKSS based Supportive • • Costs spread out over members Transparent • • Hardware and software owned by members Members prepare content for ingest 3 -year membership term, committees, listserv Diverse • Institution type, geographic

Affordable Membership Levels Collaborative: $2, 500/year Preservation: $3, 000/year Sustaining: $5, 500/year Technology fee: ~$2, 000/year OR Server cost: <$5, 500/term Storage fee: $585/TB/year

Diverse Members ● ● ● Auburn University Boston College Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Consorci de Biblioteques Universitaris de Catalunya Florida State University Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Greene County Public Library HBCU Library Alliance Indiana State University In. Di. Pres Ohio University Oregon State University ● Penn State University ● Pontificia Universidade Catolica ● ● ● ● do Rio de Janeiro Purdue University Rockefeller Archives Center University of Louisville University of North Texas University of South Carolina Virginia Tech University Williams College

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How it Works • Prepare • Host node on network, create bags of content • Ingest • Complete conspectus, stage bags on server, seven members assigned to ingest • Monitor & Repair • Storage nodes check and compare content, repairs corrupted files • Members monitor progress via conspectus • Restore • Members can request preserved copy

Conspectus

Ingest DRAG DROP Staging Server Member Storage Node FILE SYNC

Member Storage Node Staging Server Member Storage Node Member Storage Node

Digital Initiatives Moving Forward • • Opportunities • Grow collections • Expand institutions represented • Expand scope of Portal Challenges • Re-branding • Standardizing metadata and rights statements • Funding and sustainability • Ensuring digital preservation

Thank You! Christine Wiseman cwiseman@auctr. edu