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In consultation with the Metadata Working Group, we’ve also made several changes to the submission forms, including adding new resource types, reverting the controlled vocabulary of the degree level field to its prior version, removing the FAST auto-complete feature for the subject field, and resolving some RDF identifier conflicts. You can track these and other requested metadata changes on the Trello board.
Data migration
We’ll be wrapping up the production data load for Fresno the first week of June, right on schedule.
We recently completed a test load for Los Angeles, which included a new process to locate and fill in any missing data in the DSpace record from the original Proquest ETD Administrator SWORD submissionssubmission. This allows us to add keywords, department, advisor, committee member, and other metadata to thousands of recordsthe record. We’ll be looking to use this process for other campuses that use ETD Administrator as well.
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New appointments for the Metadata Working Group include Hema Ramachandran from Long Beach, Julie Dinkins from Sonoma, Melissa Seeyle from San Francisco, and Nicole Shibata from Northridge.
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Finally, we will be replacing the scholarworks@lists.calstate.edu listserv with a new one, digrepo@lists.calstate.edu, reflecting a broader scope of discussion beyond the institutional repository. We’ll be populating the new list with all of the members of the old list, as well as from the new Campus Repository Personnel Registry.