Curate is the workbench for digital curators to ingest, manage, analyze, preserve, and disseminate digital objects and collections in the Emory Preservation Repository.
Product Features for Version 1: Minimum Viable Product (2019-2020)
Library Staff Ingest and Migration Utilities
- Staff manual deposit, management and preservation maintenance interface
- Migration/import tools for DAMS and Digitized Books material
Flexible File Format Support
- Ability to ingest and preserve a wide range of file types
- Support for large files
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
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 workflows
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
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 SHA512)
- 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)
Content Dissemination/Export
- Generation of IIIF manifests to support standards-based content sharing and viewing
Digital Asset and Digital Collection Management
- Emory-defined Collections hierarchy for Libraries/units
- Ability to manage collections’ 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 stage/preview content 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 in Emory-defined scheme
- Cross-application URL resolution of identifiers
- Tombstone support for deleted, decommissioned objects
Reporting and Analytics
- Google analytics integration
- Library Staff 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
- 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
- Data encryption and security monitoring for files and application data stored in AWS
Version 1+ Enhancements (2020 --)
The following feature sets have planned enhancements 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 sources
- Self-service batch-ingest of digital objects by Library Staff*
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)
Reporting and Analytics
- 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 IP ranges (e.g. Reading Room access)
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
* Samvera roadmap or external service partner dependency