Initial Priorities

  • Create Guiding Principles for Digital Collections and Vet Broadly

    • Listen to stakeholders

    • Preservation

    • Collection Development

    • Digital Assets Management

    • Restrictions

    • Interoperability

    • Discoverability

    • Accessibility

    • Project Management

    • Collections as Data

  • Create decision tree for DAMS selection

    • When does something go to OakTrust

    • When does something go to Fedora

    • When does something go to OpenONI

    • When does something go to Avalon

    • If something is delivered with something else (Cervantes, IA Bookreader), where are files and works managed

    • Are OpenONI / Avalon files stored directly in those platforms

  • Understand Current Landscape and Microservices that make up the DAME
    • What gets a graph in Fuseki and DSPACE
    • Figure out how ordering of canvases work from both DSPACE and Fedora

    • What collections exist and how do they work

    • What are the microservices and how do they work together

    • Understand and document how Solr is implemented for Collections and Works

      • Document

    • Understand OAI-PMH and where it’s available

    • How long is a manifest cached in REDIS / IRIIIFService

      • How long will this be cached for

  • Increase accessibility, usability, and discoverability of collections

    • Create plan to add closed captioning for existing video collections

    • Create transcripts / audio descriptions for existing audio collections

    • Determine pathway and document how to get transcriptions from From the Page

    • Document existing content models and how IIIF presentation is informed

    • Collaborate with stakeholders and developers to document needs and content models for new works

    • Propose a single search interface based on underlying Solr

    • Understand OAI-PMH and where it’s available

    • Advocate for Implementation of FAIRiCat where possible

    • Create standards for access copies and intermediate files

  • Increase trust in Digital Collections platforms

    • Make sure all OakTrust links are over HTTPS (are any right now?)