People of CTDA

Greg Colati

Director, Digital Preservation Repository Program

UConn Library

Greg oversees the program development and roadmap of the DPRP.



Michael Howser, Repository Manager


Joe Schiro - 2018 - 2020

Joe is currently a senior at UConn majoring in Digital Media and Design. Joe will be working on configuring and standardizing enhanced collection pages (ECPs), metadata review and other special projects

Liz Braun - 2019 - 2020

Liz is currently a junior at UConn majoring in Digital Media and Design. She is responsible for managing all CTDA social media accounts and updating and maintaining the CTDA Resource Center.

Ali Kafel - 2020

Ali is currently a senior at UConn majoring in Computer Science. He works on metadata projects for the program including data exports to the DPLA and working on the Combine Metadata Harvester project for the CTDA.


CTDA Alumni

Carolyn Moritz - Spring 2017

Carolyn joined CTDA from the Florida State University School of Information. Her internship focused on first creating a recommendations document for both an xml site map and an Islandora xml site map and then secondly on a sitemap's implementation. Her internship incorporated research and practical practice.

Erik Lindsay - Summer 2016

 Erik joined CTDA from the UConn School of Fine Arts Digital Media & Design program. His internship focused on the design of outreach, marketing, and branding materials for CTDA. This included re-designing CTDA's logo, creating style guidelines for presentations and web content, and creating outreach materials such as a bookmark or flier. During his internship, he furthered his knowledge of agile versus waterfall approaches to project management, time-management, and working with Git and GitHub.

Connor J. Kennedy

Connor joined CTDA from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. His internship focused on outreach, education, and training. Connor worked to create a series of video tutorials for CTDA participants in addition to instructions on how to create those videos. Connor also worked in assisting to pre-process collections in UConn's Archives and Special Collections. During his internship, he learned how to create video tutorials, how users digest information and apply that to more effective training tools, and how archives work with analog collections.

Tom Smith - Spring 2016

Tom came to CTDA from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. His internship focused on content and metadata management. Tom worked hard to enhance descriptions as well as cleanup up inaccurate and inconsistent metadata. During his internship, he learned more about the tools and strategies used to manipulate large sets of data.