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Curate is the workbench for digital curators to ingest, manage, analyze, preserve, and disseminate digital objects and collections in the Emory Preservation Repository.

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Product Features for Version 1: Minimum Viable Product (2019-2020)

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Library Staff Ingest and Migration Utilities

  • Staff manual Manual/single-object deposit, management and preservation maintenance interface
  • Migration/bulk import tools for selected DAMS and Digitized Books material

Flexible File Format Support

  • Ability to ingest and preserve a wide range of file types
  • Support for large files

Streaming Media and IIIF Support

  • Generation of IIIF manifests for text and images to support standards-based content sharing and viewing
  • Streaming server for delivering large images

Complex Digital Object Support

  • Ability to ingest and manage multi-part objects
  • Ability to manage nested objects and parent/child relationships

Support for Relating Content

  • Ability to create multiple types of links to related material within, or external to, the repository

Metadata Management

  • Support for Emory Core Metadata and DLP Metadata Application Profile
  • Create and edit descriptive, rights, administrative and preservation workflows metadata
  • Integrate authorities data and controlled vocabularies from Library of Congress, Rightsstatement.org, and other sources
  • Automatically generated technical/file characterization metadata
  • Automatically generated preservation events metadata
  • Support for batch imports and batch edits

Rights Management

  • Support for Emory-defined rights metadata (user facing and staff facing)
  • Support for rightsstatements.org statements and Creative Commons licenses
  • Support for preserving and relating content to administrative/donor agreements
  • Ability to document rights determinations for administrative and preservation workflowsAbility to monitor and report on rights statuses and access restrictions

Access Controls and Embargoes

  • Assign tiered visibility and download access to digital content (public, Emory campus, private/staff only)
  • Customized file-delivery settings for IIIF content viewer (restrict downloads/display at lower resolution)
  • Restrict access to material via arbitrary calendar date selection
  • Support for formal decommissioning and deletion of objects
  • Tiered access to digital content for specific IP ranges (e.g. Reading Room access)

Digital Preservation, Storage, & Monitoring

  • Compliance with Emory Digital Preservation Policy and Archival Information Package specification
  • Automated bit-level preservation activities including:
    • Checksum generation (SHA1, MD5Sum, and SHA512SHA256)
    • Fixity checks for objects’ component files
    • File format identification and validation
    • Virus scanning and quarantine
    • Automated generation of preservation event audits metadata
  • Support for manual preservation workflow sequences and associated metadata (Accessioning, Ingest, Decommissioning, Deletion)
  • Preservation-quality storage meeting Emory DLP criteria (minimum of 2 copies; geographically diverse storage)

Persistent Identifiers and URLs

  • Generation of unique, persistent IDs in Emory-defined scheme
  • Cross-application URL resolution of identifiers
  • Tombstone support for deleted, decommissioned objects

Content Dissemination/Export

  • Generation of IIIF manifest manifests to support standards-based content sharing and viewing

Digital Asset and Digital Collection Management

  • Emory-defined Collections hierarchy for Libraries/units
  • Manage collections’ Ability to manage collection-level settings and metadata
  • Support for nested collections
  • Support for primary /and virtual collection membership
  • Curator dashboard and management interface for collections, digital objects, individual files
  • Staff search and browse across repository
  • Administrative/staff-only views of repository assets (content and metadata)
  • Administrative view of deleted or decommissioned content
  • Ability to stagetest/preview content ingests within software environment prior to production ingest

User & Permissions Management

  • Shibboleth authentication using Emory credentials
  • Group and role-based editability settings on digital collections and assets
  • Dashboard for recent user activity and modifications

Persistent Identifiers and URLs

  • Generation of unique, persistent IDs
  • Cross-application URL resolution of identifiers
  • Tombstone support for deleted, decommissioned objects

Reporting and Analytics

  • Google analytics integration
  • Library Staff dashboard self-service reporting, including:
    • Individual collections: number of objects and total file size
    • Individual objects: number of pageviews*
    • Individual files: number of downloads and pageviews*
    • Individual account profile and activity
  • Administrator-level dashboard and reporting, including user activity, date-range selections, repository-including 
    • Repository-wide statistics (total objects/collections/files; most common file types; growth in past 90 days)
    • Visibility breakdown (e.g. % of public vs private objects)
    • Number of objects and files per Administrative Set
    • User activity statistics (total number of users; recently created users; most active depositors)   

Data and Security Compliance

  • Compliance with Emory LITS Architecture and Security requirements
  • Support for Public, Internal, Confidential data
  • Security monitoring for files and application data stored in Emory AWS infrastructure


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Version 1+ Enhancements (

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2021 --)

The following feature areas include sets have planned enhancements relative related to collections not yet migrated and/or external partner work in progress:

Library Staff Ingest and Migration Utilities

  • Migration/import tools for additional data sourcesSelf-service batch-ingest of digital objects by Library Staff*, including Interfolio/Facet
  • Support for audiovisual ingest workflows

Streaming Media and IIIF Support

  • Generation of IIIF manifests to support audio, video material
  • Streaming server for delivering large audio, video files

Content Dissemination/Export

  • Export digital objects to Emory-approved third-party preservation and dissemination services*
  • Export/download individual preservation packages (DIPs)

Digital Preservation, Storage, & Monitoring

  • 3-copy, geographically diverse storage and replication*
  • Normalization for selected workflows and file formats
  • Enhanced preservation monitoring reports
  • Digital object-level versioning support (OCFL)
  • Support for additional preservation workflows (Versioning, Dissemination)
  • Fixity checking support across all replicated copies

Reporting and Analytics

  • Additional Emory-defined custom reporting
  • Expanded self-service reports for Library staff users, including enhanced Collection-level reporting and usage analytics*
  • Ability to monitor and report on rights statuses and access restrictions*
  • Export report data in PDF or CSV*Additional Emory-defined custom reporting

Metadata Management

  • Emory user data integration for Emory creators/contributors
  • Import descriptive metadata from systems of record (e.g. Alma, ArchivesSpace)Support for batch imports and batch edits*

Rights Management

  • Ability to monitor and report on embargo expirations

Access Controls and Embargoes

  • Tiered access to digital content for specific additional campus library IP ranges /(e.g. Reading Room accessAbility to restrict access for specific durations*)

Digital Asset & Digital Collection Management

  • Support for self-service batch operations on digital assets*

Data and Security Compliance

  • Digital object reference management for Restricted data files stored outside the Cor repository

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