We’re pleased to announce that a digital collection from Special Collections is now discoverable in Bobcat. Items from the David Wojnarowicz Papers from Fales Library can now be discovered and accessed right from the Library’s main catalog. The magic behind this feat is Ichabod, a joint project from DLTS and KARMS, which ingests metadata from heterogeneous sources, normalizes it, and sends it to Primo (the software that powers Bobcat). Now that we’ve made one collection available in Bobcat, we can work on others: Camp Kinderland, Gay Cable Network, the Washington Square Photo Collection, photography from the Arab world, and many others.
Making these digital collections available through our main discovery interface is the goal of Strategic Initiative 4.3, and we’re well on the way to fulfilling that promise. Special thanks to the Ichabod team (Carol Kassel, Corey Harper, Daniel Lovins, David Arjanik, Ekaterina Pechekhonova, Esha Datta, Joseph Pawletko, Mike Haag, Reed Shadgett, and Stephen Balogh) as well as ACM and Special Collections for helping us reach this milestone.