A presentation to the 14th Open Repositories conference in Hamburg, held in June 2019. It covers work to develop a solution for creating a digital archive for the City of Culture digital archive through brining together Archivematica and the Hyrax digital repository solution.
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1. Capturing the UK City of Culture:
bringing Hyrax and Archivematica
together to deliver preservation
and access workflows
Chris Awre, University of Hull
Julie Allinson, CoSector, University of London
Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg
2. The UK City of Culture
The UK Government awards the title of UK City of Culture every four years
➢ In 2017 the title was awarded to Hull
The title is conferred for a four year period, but there is a focus in the first
year on showcasing the culture of the city and using culture as a means to
stimulate re-generation and growth.
➢ Over 2,800 events across the city throughout the year
3. The story of a city finding its place in the
UK, a city coming out of the shadows and
re-establishing its reputation as a gateway
that welcomes the world. The story is of Hull
– a city that is proud of its people and wants
to share its sense of freedom and space with
the rest of the UK
2017 Hull Tell the World: “The countdown has begun”, 2014
5. • Various depositors, including the university and artists, with the Culture
Company being the biggest
• Almost exclusively digital
• Main systems we are harvesting records from:
• Asset Bank (DAMS) c18,000 HQ photos and videos
• SharePoint c80,000 organisational records
• Box
• Email
• Over 150,000 files in total
The records
6. • Business case made to the University
• Production of archive part of the
University’s commitment to
supporting City of Culture
• Collaborative relationship with
Culture Company
• Centered tender around use of
Samvera
• Design with a view to expand to other
archives
Journey towards
an archive
7. Passing the baton
Filling the digital preservation gap
• https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/projects/archivematica/
• A Jisc project looking at how Archivematica could be used to help
preserve research data
The project successfully showed how Archivematica could be used alongside a
repository to add preservation value to research data
Architecture designed provided a starting point for the City of Culture Digital
Archive
12. User doesn’t have to leave the History
Centre Catalogue
They don’t know (and don’t need to
know that) these files are derivatives,
managed by Hyrax, with preservation
copies stored elsewhere by
Archivematica
13. • Keen to use open source – customisable, flexible,
tap into existing communities, exercise control
• Desire to provide access to range of users –
academic, artistic response, local
reminiscence…achieve this through integration
with our existing systems
• Scope to extend to other University of Hull digital
collections
What this approach to the archive
will deliver
15. Repository infrastructure
The infrastructure designed makes
active use of a repository at its heart
➢ But this repository does not live
in isolation, it only works
effectively when connected to
the other systems around it
➢ These system interactions can
serve different workflows
according to need
16. • Archival steps
○ Appraisal / cataloguing / access
•Technical steps
○ Identify the best way of delivering the project as a service
re: hosting, support and ongoing development
•Business steps - HEIF funding
○ Develop business model for ongoing service delivery
○ Identify revenue opportunities through provision of service
○ Link archive to broader collections management
Next
steps
17. Thank you
For more information visit
www.hull.ac.uk
C.Awre@hull.ac.uk (with thanks to Laura
Giles for her slides)
Julie.Allinson@cosector.com