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:

Library Staff Ingest and Migration Utilities

• Migration/import tools for additional data sources, 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*

Metadata Management

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

Rights Management

• Ability to monitor and report on embargo expirations

Access Controls and Embargoes

• Tiered access to digital content for additional campus library 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