osdpa: one body, many heads: preservation and access from project hydra
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Presented at the session OSDPA: One Body, Many Heads: Preservation and Access From Project Hydra on October 9, 2014 at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference (October 8-11, 2014) by Stefan Elnabli of Northwestern University.TRANSCRIPT
One Body, Many Heads: Preservation and Access From Project Hydra
Presented by Stefan ElnabliMoving Image And Sound Preservation Specialist
Northwestern University Library
AMIA - Savannah - 9 October 2014
Digital Collections Department
• Customized strategies and platforms to digitize and make collections accessible
• Serves faculty, students, and special libraries units– Special Collections, University Archives, Music Library,
Africana Library, Transportation Library
• Streaming media since 2001• Currently well above 50,000 media assets
digital.library.northwestern.edu
The Digital Repository
• Since 2006, developing services and collections in a Fedora Commons digital object repository
• Expanded to include services for audiovisual assets to build collections for access
• Legacy AV reformatting a necessity, repository must support its preservation and access
Functional Components and Architecture
Built on a Set of Core Technologies
And more…
Repository
Joined Project Hydra as a
partner in 2011
Digital Image Library (DIL)
Hydramata (formerly Shared IR)
Five-institution project to develop a next-generation institutional repository solution in Hydra
“Legacy” Audiovisual Formats
Image: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0020/99101/DSCN5152-compressed.JPG
Media Collections
• Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center• Circulating video collection• VHS, Laserdisc, DVD
• Music Library• Circulating audio collection• Cassette, CD, LP, DAT
• Special Libraries Division• Archival media collection (legacy formats)• 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, cassette based
video and audio, optical media, open reel video and audio
2,425 16MM REELSACETATESOUNDSILENTCOLORB&W
WILDCATS FOOTBALL
BEFORE
AFTER
But How Can We Provide…
• An access service on top of the repository• Integration with the identity management system• Granular access control• Rich metadata capability• Multi-platform streaming• Integration with the learning management system• Support for non-library units to self manage content
Solution
Avalon, the Product
Go to: media.northwestern.edu
Faceted Browsing
Manage Collections
Assign Staff Roles and Special Access
Customized Roles
File Upload Methods
Batch Uploading for Large Collections
Manage Structure of Multi Part Resources
Collection: default access control-RAssign Special Access
Users Access Resources and Metadata
Migration
• New content generated served through Avalon• Old content being served must be migrated
– Transcoding– Descriptive metadata creation– Collection level organization– Structural organization– Permissions
• Old systems will run in conjunction until scalability is addressed and content is fully migrated
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