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Melissa

  • Recording meetings?


Overview and introductions


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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”

Recap of 2020-2021 Projects

Melissa

  • Recommended 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 (the .

    • The following statement now appears at the bottom of every record: “Items in ScholarWorks are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.”

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  • Proposed changing the workforms to align with the following categories, but these still need to be revised /and implemented (more information)

  1. Theses, Dissertations, and Culminating Graduate Student Projects

  1. (Master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation, or other culminating graduate student project) – Reviewed all ETD workform fields in May 2021

  2. Other Student Works

  1. (Other graduate and undergraduate student works)

  2. Publications

  1. (Article, book chapter, book, book review, report, white paper, proceeding)

  2. Presentations

  1. (Abstract, slides, audio/video recording, etc.)

  2. Research Datasets

  1. (Datasets, models, software, etc.)

  2. Open Educational Resources

  1. (Open textbook, syllabus, or other teaching materials)

  • Made various recommendations for universal changes to standards and instructional text for specific fields, but we still need to implement most of these. Below are a couple of examples.

Goals and Priorities for 2021-2022

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  • Updates from Dave and request for feedback on the following ScholarWorks form elements:

    • Composite author field

    • Discipline list

    • Date selection

  • Which of the following other ongoing points of discussion do we want to focus on?

    • Streamlining copyright fields

    • Proposal for dealing with legacy department names (we briefly discussed the potential of a free text note field being a solution for this, among other things)

    • Post-migration metadata cleanup in ScholarWorks

    Display of collections
    • Collections-level metadata

  • At what point would we like to meet with DAWG?

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