Preliminary discussion of the MWG's charge | Melissa | Please note: Carmen Mitchell will attend our September meeting to continue this conversation. From MWG Confluence page: “Formed as part of the Digital Repositories Committee. Formerly the ScholarWorks Metadata Interest Group.” From DRC Confluence page: “The purpose of the Digital Repositories Committee is to ensure the necessary guidelines, priorities, and administration of a sustainable, systemwide institutional repository system (ScholarWorks), digital archives system, and related digital library services. Creating a sustainable digital library infrastructure requires: Identifying and establishing ongoing funding / revenue sources and models Adherence to international standards and best practices Development and management of user-needed platforms Development and management of user-needed services Development of policies to mitigate risk (structural, physical, legal, information, etc.) Support of open access initiatives, via technology integration and OA policy implementation”
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Recap of 2020-2021 Projects | Melissa | Fall 2020: Investigated potential solutions for streamlining copyright/rights metadata and recommended a blanket copyright statement as short-term solution (overview and recommendations), which Dave has implemented. Fall 2020: Held a joint MWG/DAWG meeting (notes) and chairs discussed a master data modeling spreadsheet for DAMS. Sub-group included Julie, Nicole, Hema, and Lia. Fall 2020: Dave created a Metadata Change Log to track changes. Spring 2020: Proposed changing the workforms to align with the following categories, but these still need to be revised and implemented (more information)
Theses, Dissertations, and Culminating Graduate Student Projects (Master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation, or other culminating graduate student project) – Reviewed all ETD workform fields in May 2021 Other Student Works (Other graduate and undergraduate student works) Publications (Article, book chapter, book, book review, report, white paper, proceeding) Presentations (Abstract, slides, audio/video recording, etc.) Research Datasets (Datasets, models, software, etc.) Open Educational Resources (Open textbook, syllabus, or other teaching materials)
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