UMD Libraries Update

2018

Katherine Anne Porter Correspondence: Overview

https://www.lib.umd.edu/kaporter-correspondence
3,856 Letters between the author and family members
Typescript and hand written
Fully catalogued and digitized

Katherine Anne Porter Correspondence: Advantages

Able to reuse much of the past Fedora work
Mirador viewer, Plastron batch loader, IIIF manifest application and image server

Katherine Anne Porter Correspondence: Challenges

Digitization proceeded over many years in several phases
Some content previously scanned as folders (needed to be recataloged and separated)
Different transcription approaches (hOCR, plain text, TEI, Word docs)

Fedora Integration

Regular fixity checking: some issues
Investigating triplestore performance improvements
Build out Archelon, our admin tool
Looking at Fedora 5 with Karaf/Camel Toolbox

Code Repositories

https://github.com/umd-lib/mirador-static – IIIF Viewer
https://github.com/umd-lib/plastron – Batch Loader
https://github.com/umd-lib/pcdm-manifests – IIIF Manifests (Presentation API)
https://github.com/umd-lib/archelon – Admin Tool

Josh Westgard, Peter Eichman

westgard@umd.edu, peichman@umd.edu

DC Fedora Users Group

December 17–18, 2018