The Espy Project

Building Digital Infrastructure


University Archives


Traditional Practices


The University Archives


Building a Modern Collecting Program


Born-Digital Records Collecting in Practice






Ben Goldman, “Outfitting a Born-Digital Archives Program”
Practical Technology for Archives   Issue 2 (June 2014)


Establishing a Collecting Program


Transfer Scripts



Establishing a Collecting Program


Establishing a Collecting Program


Establishing a Collecting Program


Current Storage


Current Access System


Maintenance


Introduction to APIs


What can you do with APIs?


APIs: Solving Problems with Maintainable Solutions


Separation of Concerns: Smaller Tools



An Interoperable Repository with APIs


Portland Common Data Model


API Access Allows Maintainable Workflows


Open, Interconnected Workflows

  1. Detect accession
  2. Get contextual data from ArchivesSpace API
  3. Ingest into digital repository
  4. Que for review
  5. Expose data into central search index

An Interoperable Repository with APIs


An Interoperable Repository with APIs


APIs also Make Access Possible



What it will Look Like


Repository Supports



New Possibilities



The Espy Project

Building Digital Infrastructure