Completed Projects

The list below is a portion of the projects that LTDS has completed.  In may cases, once the project is complete, LTDS continues to maintain the system.

Systems

  • Alma public facing notifications (FALL 2018)
  • MFA/2FA switch for Github (Jodie Gambill) (FALL 2018)
  • Migration from shared folders to SEMs (https://ltds.library.vanderbilt.edu/2018/09/19/communicating-to-groups-via-email-what-are-the-options/) (FALL 2018)
    • Campus is working to eliminate the shared folders since Microsoft does not support these in the cloud. SEMs also have additional advantages
  • Public website refresh (SUMMER 2018)
  • ILLiad upgrade v 8┬á (SUMMER 2018)
  • ILLiad upgrade v9 (FALL 2018/19)
  • Migration to new web server (SUMMER 2018)
  • VDI migration of public and service desk computers
    • A few service desk computers (Management, Music, Special Collections) were not migrated due to special needs for the machines
  • Proxy server migration
  • Shared proxy management with e-resouces┬á (SPRING 2019)

Digital Preservation and Scanning

  • Eliminate scanning/ingestion back log
  • Migrate PhotoArchives to Islandora
  • Islandora restructure and expansion (FALL 2018)
    • Moving from a single server to three servers will increase the performance and capacity of Islandora and allow us to better feature our digital collections
    • This project will also enable us to migrate other current collections to a centralize repository and allow us to eliminate older, outdated system.
    • This project will also ready the system for Fedora 4 with the additional capacity and the addition of Blazegraph for searching
    • UPDATE:┬á The new servers have been configured and the software is currently being installed.┬á Once complete and we have performed testing we will need to stop updates until the indexing has completed

Web Management

  • Updated/rebranded Dspace to IR
  • Implemented Adopt-a-Book website
  • Public website refresh (2017-2018)
  • Internal/Staff calendar implementation (Spring 2019)
  • Dynamic organizational chart
  • First phase of Documentation site theme/functionality
  • Digital Collections site theme

Selected list of current projects

Selected list of planned projects