Towards the end of this year, you’ll be seeing some changes on DigitalNC.org. We’re in the process of migrating out of the software that supports the parts of our site that look like this:
and this:
After years of investigation, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve chosen to migrate DigitalNC’s collections to TIND Digital Archive. TIND is an official CERN spin-off providing library management systems, digital preservation, and research data management solutions based on CERN open source software (Invenio).
What does this mean for users? The current site will remain active and available right up until we switch everything over. However, until the migration is complete, newspapers will be the items most frequently added to DigitalNC (newspapers live in a different system).
TIND addresses some of the biggest areas for improvement identified through surveys and by looking at years of feedback. Those are:
- Faster response time for searches and viewing items,
- More relevant search results,
- Easier to page through multi-page items,
- Files that are easier to find and download, and
- Full text search across ALL yearbooks.
Our partner institutions are already in the loop about the migration. We will give users a chance to preview the new site (or at least extensive screenshots) before we switch everything over. Before we change anything, we’ll give you a heads up via posts to this blog and social media outlets as well as banners on our website. So watch this space in the coming months for updates!
If you manage your own digital collections and would like more technical details related to the migration or information about why we have chosen TIND, just contact us.