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Colonial North America (CNA) - CNA is a highly customized exhibit that is built on a separate instance from our standard exhibits listed above. See a description of the collection here. The site includes extensive user interface customization, metadata extensions for sub-collections, and an embedded Mirador viewer for displaying the over 25,000 digitized documents in the collection (including nearly 300,000 digitized pages).

Service Site

CURIOSity Digital Collections Services

Metadata Harvesting

The item metadata for all of our exhibits are imported from our LibraryCloud metadata hub and the digital objects are delivered from our Digital Repository Service (DRS). LibraryCloud ingests record metadata from our source catalogs and DRS, transforming the data into MODS in the process. We use a custom built application, SetBuilder, to create sets of records in LibraryCloud. Once a set is created, we use our OAI-PMH data provider to send that set to Spotlight and/or places like DPLA. For harvesting into Spotlight, we've created an OAI-PMH Spotlight plugin that has been released as open source. The LibraryCloud Infrastructure Diagram shows how the pieces of our architecture work together.

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