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

Manual/single-object deposit, management and preservation maintenance interface
Migration/bulk 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

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 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
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 SHA256)
- 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 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 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 test/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

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
Security monitoring for files and application data stored in Emory AWS infrastructure

Version 1+ Enhancements (2021 --)

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