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Presentation from George Washington University on their ISIS files repository - Dan Kerchner, GWU
Background: experience with Samvera
Build GW Scholarsapce IR on Sufia 6/7 in 2015, rebuilt on Hyrax in 2017
Built a batch loader, now have 10K+ works (Hyrax 2.8.0)
ISIS files
ISIS was the governing entity in the area they controlled, so basic government functions
NY Times reporter embedded with Iraqi army that liberated Mosul, discovered huge trove of documents spanning the whole range of government activities, and got permission to digitize, curate, translate, and make them public
NY Times reached out to Program on Extremism at GWU, got grant from Mellon Foundation to support this work
The project involved staff in many roles, including project management, metadata, translation, etc. and some development time.
Part of the goal was figuring out how to work with such sensitive documents in a repository in a responsible way
Repository content and workflow
15K pages, ~1500 files, initial batch was 62 documents
Ingesting both original documents, plus analysts' reports
Workflow: digitize, sort/review, translate, describe, redact, convert to accessible PDFs, then ingest
Accessibility is key both for the website and for the files that are ingested