DC Fedora User Group
UMD Libraries Update

Collections

• UMD Student Newspapers
• Katherine Anne Porter Correspondence
• Prange Posters and Wall Newspapers
• Prange Images (serving images for Fedora 2 objects)

Digital Preservation

• Nightly fixity checker
• Asset tracking system
• APTrust deposit for FY18-19 digitized content

Archelon Development

• Blacklight-based Rails application
• Currently read-only admin browser/viewer
• Gathering requirements for read/write capability
• Replace existing F2 "Admin Tools" application
• Samvera vs. build-your-own dilemma

Avalon Pilot

• Current system: Sharestream with rels-ext F2 resources
• Evaluating Avalon for AV content

Challenges

• Migration path for 4->5
• Import/Export Tools: migration and APTrust deposit
• Unprocessed archival folders with many pages
• Heterogenous OCR data and the user experience

Future Plans

• African American Digital Humanities Project
• White House Correspondents Association Pool Reports
• Maps/GIS data
• Born-digital archival content
• Diamondback Photos
• Updated discovery/access interfaces for Fedora 4 and 2
• Bento style search for digital and special collections
• Drastic testing
• Tracking developmnent of Mirador 3
• OAI-PMH server
• And many more ...
• Currently ~200TB of assets under management
• Goal is to have all preservation masters in Fedora

Thank you!

Peter Eichman (peichman@umd.edu)

Ben Wallberg (wallberg@umd.edu)

Joshua Westgard (westgard@umd.edu)