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Abstract
For 18 years, CONTENTdm was home to Central Florida Memory (CFM). CFM is a cooperative project started by three partner institutions in 2002 to provide an online platform and focal point for gathering, preserving, and disseminating the documents, artifacts, and stories of the history of Central Florida. As the project grew to include content from nine partners, UCF remained the primary technology support and host institution for Central Florida Memory. Recent server consolidations and lack of support for locally hosted CONTENTdm instances underscored the urgent need to migrate this valued cultural heritage content to another platform. In the Fall of 2019, the move from our CONTENTdm server to UCF’s Digital Commons institutional repository, STARS, began by repurposing existing metadata and files for a wide variety of materials including newspapers, weeklies, books, directories, correspondence, voter registration records, funeral home records, images, and more. This presentation will focus on the decisions and processes involved in the restructuring and reformatting of nearly 50,000 items.
Key points of consideration included:
- Creating workflows to maximize productivity
- Providing access to meaningful digital surrogates
- Retaining existing features and functionality
- Integrating additional services
- Producing topic and partner portal pages
Presentation Description
For 18 years, CONTENTdm was home to Central Florida Memory. Server consolidations and lack of support for locally hosted CONTENTdm instances underscored the urgent need to migrate this valued cultural heritage content to another platform. In the Fall of 2019, the move from our CONTENTdm server to Digital Commons began by repurposing existing metadata and files for a wide variety of materials. This presentation will focus on decisions and processes involved in the restructuring and reformatting of nearly 50,000 items.
Conference Year
2020
Start Date
29-5-2020 1:00 PM
Location
Online (Room 1)
End Date
29-5-2020 2:00 PM
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Giving New Life to Old Memories Slides
Giving New Life to Old Memories: Migrating Central Florida Memory from CONTENTdm to Digital Commons
Online (Room 1)
For 18 years, CONTENTdm was home to Central Florida Memory (CFM). CFM is a cooperative project started by three partner institutions in 2002 to provide an online platform and focal point for gathering, preserving, and disseminating the documents, artifacts, and stories of the history of Central Florida. As the project grew to include content from nine partners, UCF remained the primary technology support and host institution for Central Florida Memory. Recent server consolidations and lack of support for locally hosted CONTENTdm instances underscored the urgent need to migrate this valued cultural heritage content to another platform. In the Fall of 2019, the move from our CONTENTdm server to UCF’s Digital Commons institutional repository, STARS, began by repurposing existing metadata and files for a wide variety of materials including newspapers, weeklies, books, directories, correspondence, voter registration records, funeral home records, images, and more. This presentation will focus on the decisions and processes involved in the restructuring and reformatting of nearly 50,000 items.
Key points of consideration included:
- Creating workflows to maximize productivity
- Providing access to meaningful digital surrogates
- Retaining existing features and functionality
- Integrating additional services
- Producing topic and partner portal pages