System Status Update: May 28, 2024 

This page will update the status of the CTDA system at irregular intervals while the system continues to gain stability and functionality. We appreciate your patience and support as we roll out the new CTDA. 

General Comments for Content Managers

  • If you want your account activated to ingest permanent content in the new system, contact Michael Howser on the CTDA Slack space. 

System Status

  • Like many sites, the CTDA is being overwhelmed by a new type of AI bot. We are working with our vendor and UConn IT to resolve the issue. System performance will be affected by bot attacks at random times. We appreciate your patience. 
  • Handle generation for all new and legacy content that do not have handles has been delayed while we battle bots.
  • OAI-PMH capability is on hold until bots are controlled and handles are generated
  • Railroad Valuation Maps are not displaying, a solution has been identified and will be implemented. 

Recent Feature Implementations and Fixes

  • "New" Download permissions based on collections is now available. Default settings do not allow downloads. You may use the Request Download Settings Change Form to change the download permissions at the collection level.
  • Search functions have been streamlined. 
    • The general search box now searches the entire repository by default. 
    • Use the "Filter results" box to search within a collection or result set. (that label will be changed soon) 

Ongoing System Projects

  • Entity relationship issue: Some content is not properly associated with the correct Group during certain activities. There is no timeline yet for fixing this issue. Activities affected include:
    • Batch Upload Children
    • Moving an item from one group to another
    • Some legacy content with errors in the records 
  • Content anomalies, Migration stubs, and changeme labels are being addressed by CTDA students. 
  • Term Merge: Term merge allows us to normalize and consolidate taxonomy terms to make searching more precise. Term merge  has capability issues with the latest release of Drupal, we are waiting for an update from the Drupal community 
  • Third party automated ingest allows external systems such as the State Library's Redaction system, and CLHO's CTCo system to automatically transfer files and metadata to the CTDA
    • CSL's third party ingest system is now live
    • CLHO process has been tested and is being refined before production implementation

System Projects on the Horizon

These future enhancements are in different stages of defining and evaluation.

  • Serials (Newspaper) display using JStree will improve performance of newspaper display
  • Upgrades to Batch Modify Metadata including search and replace and modifications of large numbers of items at once.
  • Upgrades to Term Merge including faster display of term lists
  • Configure OAI-PMH harvest to resume uploading content to the DPLA
  • Useability enhancements to facets and filters
  • Default Mirador display to be larger and "cleaner"