System Status Update: June 24, 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. 

System Status

  • Bot blocking is beginning to make a difference!  While more remains to be done, we are managing to block most malicious bots. 
  • Handles are now being generated for all new content. 
  • Handles for all content that do not have handles will begin shortly.
  • OAI-PMH capability is next up on the development list
  • Railroad Valuation Maps should display now. 

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.
  • Add Batch Children to an existing repository item version 1 has been implemented. 
  • Automated third party ingest has been implemented.
  • Spreadsheet update has been implemented

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:
    • 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

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
  • Useability enhancements to facets and filters
  • Default Mirador display to be larger and "cleaner"