Digital Access Committee

Kevin Cawley, Chair

Committee Charge

The Digital Access Committee (DAC) identifies metadata guidelines, best practices, and protocols for making metadata and content accessible via the Catholic Portal.

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2020/21 Goals

• Improve the user experience on the Catholic Portal.
• Add more records for full text content.
• Expand searchability function with use of metadata (bridge between Portal and other CRRA resources)
• UX / UI / upload capability (member and non-member), make it easy to add meta-data records
• Integration with other resources

2019/20 Accomplishments

• This year DAC helped to plan and implement the Catholic Portal’s hosting transition to CRRA's new service provider, Andornot.
• We continued to support full-text content from CRRA members through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and through external references in MARC records.
• As part of the transition to Andornot, DAC corrected problems with CRRA metadata and, with the latest version of VuFind, improved searchability.
• We upgraded to the current version of VuFind, with its improved interface features.
• With Andornot we developed a system that allows CRRA members to upload their metadata easily and efficiently.
• In response to feedback from Portal users and CRRA members, we improved the presentation of search results and recommended changes, which were implemented, to the CRRA homepage.