BCAUL Pilot project: Final report

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NOTE: ArchivesCanada.ca report delivered on March 31, 2009. BCAUL/ICA-AtoM Final Report delivered on June 30, 2009.

BCAUL Pilot Project has been completed and MemoryBC.ca website has been active since August 2009

Report Outline

Background to BCAUL

  • History and development
  • Why upgrade?
    • Server/support issues with legacy system
    • Multi-level description
    • More efficient upload from institutions to BCAUL
    • Long-term sustainability

Canadian archival network: context / directions / concerns

  • See CCA/LAC Capacity Assessment Study (March 2008).
  • See CCA/LAC Joint Working Group on the National Catalogue report (April 2007).
    • Vision
      • Discover variety and richness of archival records in Canada
      • Greatest possible participation & use
      • Work cooperatively with Provincial, Territorial, Regional networks
      • Dynamic service and content tool
      • Multi-level description
      • Digital surrogate linking
      • Enriched search experience
    • System Requirements
      • Data model
        • Multi-level
        • Allow series-based
        • Add new elements
        • Digital content links
        • Network & repository directory
      • RAD compatible
        • Non-RAD compatible?
      • EAD
        • Mapped to RAD
      • Search
        • Google-like
        • Sort & filter
      • Transfer services
        • EAD Import/export
        • OAI Harvesting
      • Also: Technical Requirements implied by content of report
        • Workflow module
        • Search engine optimization
        • National repository identifiers (to be looked into by LAC Standards Dep't which already manages the Inter-Library Loan repository identifiers)
        • Virtual exhibits module
        • User statistics
  • Also: Server/support issues with LAC legacy system

Project review

  • Objective
  • Partners
  • Funding
  • Activities
  • Outcome

Findings

  • RAD mapping & templates
  • BCAUL Legacy data migration
  • Direct data entry
  • EAD Import to ICA-AtoM (SFU AIS -> SFU ICA-AtoM)
  • EAD Export to ICA-Atom/BCAUL (SFU ICA-AtoM -> BCAUL)
  • OAI Harvesting
    • Needs testing
    • also: simple Dublin Core is not rich enough for archival description
      • need OAI with EAD
  • Searching and browsing
  • Digital content
    • How? When?
  • Documentation
    • existing ICA-AtoM user manual
    • new AABC tutorials
  • Training
    • coordinators (informal)
    • users (AABC Conference workshop)
      • tutorials for re-use at later workshops
  • Installation & hosting
    • timing?
    • theming
    • static website
  • System administration
    • needs 1.1 features (Oct 2009) for full production phase:
      • import/harvesting workflow
      • ACL
    • ICA-AtoM release 1.0.5, March 9
  • System performance
    • needs testing

Impact / costs / issues

  • Researchers
    • new interface feedback
  • Archival institutions
    • need to do technical survey
      • who uses BCAUL? Of those who do, which category will they fit in? EAD export, direct data-entry, export from 3rd-party system, legacy export (WORD documents, CSV, email)
    • standard export templates for common applications?
      • need results from technical survey
      • costs?
    • support for optional switch to ICA-AtoM?
      • training, hosting
    • need to maintain support (1-2 years) for existing import techniques/processes
    • communication plan? (reliant on volunteer hours)
      • FAQ
        • What is ICA-AtoM?
        • What is the ICA-AtoM/BCAUL Pilot?
        • How will it work?
        • How will it affect my process?
        • Do I have to use ICA-AtoM? (no, not if you don't want to)
          • but do keep in mind that to qualify for NADP funding, your archival descriptions must be submitted to BCAUL
  • AABC
    • legacy / new hosting contracts timing/costs
    • beta phase - get feedback from AABC community
    • user support
      • technical support
      • archival description support
      • regional workshops
      • tutorials
        • use case1: institution uses ICA-AtoM locally
        • use case2: institution logs into BCAUL and does data-entry
  • SFU
  • UVic
  • Artefactual / ICA-AtoM
    • new feature development (funded)
      • usability improvements, release 1.0.6 (early April) (Artefactual)
      • ACL (ICA)
    • new feature development (unfunded)
      • OAI with embedded EAD
      • import/harvesting workflow
      • search engine optimization
      • User statistics (integrate with statistics tool)
      • Virtual exhibits module (not critical)
  • ArchivesCanada.ca
    • Canadian Council of Archives
      • formal request to LAC to pursue ICA-AtoM option?
    • Library and Archives of Canada
      • business lead
      • technical lead

Conclusion