Bayou City DAMS: Outside the Box

Abstract

The University of Houston (UH) Libraries made an institutional commitment in late 2015 to migrate the data for its digitized cultural heritage collections to open source systems for preservation and access: Hydra-in-a-Box, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace. This presentation introduces the work that the UH Libraries implementation team completed in 2016, including open source tools for minting and resolving ARK identifiers, managing SKOS vocabularies, and streamlining digital curation workflows. These systems, workflows, and tools, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS), represent a novel effort to solve common issues in the digital curation lifecycle and may serve as a model for other institutions seeking to implement flexible and comprehensive systems for digital preservation and access.

Description

This presentation was delivered on January 11th, 2017 at the South Central States Fedora Users Group winter meeting held at the M.D. Anderson Library on the University of Houston main campus.

Keywords

Open source software, Application development, Digital asset management systems, Open source software, Application development, Digital asset management systems

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