1. The Connecticut Digital Archive
Serving Connecticut’s cultural heritage community since 2013
June, 2016
Greg Colati, AUL for Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Curation
2. New Logo!
An abstract representation of the
CTDA's mission and activity.
Central repository services with
different branches that break the
boundaries of traditional digital
repositories and libraries.
4. Cyberinfrastructure and the Human Record
“Digital cultural heritage resources are a fundamental
dataset for the humanities…
… combined with computer networks and software tools,
[they] now shape the way that scholars [and all interested
people] discover and make sense of the human record…
… [and] the way their findings are communicated to
students, colleagues, and the general public.”
"The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences." American
Council of Learned Societies (2006)
5. The Dilemma of Modern Preservation
2016 2???
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How do we insure that resources that support inquiry and
research that exist in digital form today, will reliably exist and
be discoverable in the future?
6. CTDA Development
• Phase I: Infrastructure Building
(2011-13)
• Phase II: Collection Building
(2013-15)
• Phase III: Connection Building
(2016- )
7. The CTDA in 2013
• One institution: University of
Connecticut, Special Collections
and Archives
• One collection: Thomas J. Dodd
Nuremberg trial papers
• Approx. 20,000 digital objects:
text documents of the
Nuremberg trial team
• One presentation layer:
archives.lib.uconn.edu
8. The CTDA in 2016
• 40+ Institutions: Libraries,
Archives, Museums, Historical
Societies, Higher Ed, K-12
Education, State Agencies.
• Hundreds of collections in a
broad spectrum of subjects
from Algae to Zulus
• More than 300,000 digital
objects: texts, images, video,
audio, data sets, and more …
• Multiple presentation outlets: 5
web sites, indexing in
aggregators: iConn, DPLA,
links in connecticuthistory.org,
and more