It’s been a while since our last digital repositories update. With Systemwide Digital Library Services now back up to a full complement of staff, we’ll be getting back to our regular, written reports.
Digital Repositories Committee (DRC)
The DRC is off to a quick start this year, with Andrew Weiss now chairing the Steering Committee, Carmen Mitchell chairing the Institutional Repository Working Group (IRWG), and Nicole Shibata and Steve Kutay co-chairing the Digital Archives Working Group (DAWG).
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The Steering Committee is also interested in auditing ScholarWorks’ status as a trusted repository. This multi-year project would look to review the current state of the repository and how it aligns with next-generation repository goals, as well as ongoing gap and needs analyses.
Digital Archives
Work continues apace with the new CSU Digital Archives. Since our last report in the spring, the production system is now up and running, with basic configurations and functionality in place. We’re still working with several campuses to complete authentication work for the new system, and still ironing out some final issues with new submissions.
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In the meantime, DAWG continues to do beta testing of the Digital Archives in order to recommend changes and feature enhancements, as well as refine the Metadata Application Profile.
ScholarWorks
We’ve recently put in place configurations to block known AI bots from harvesting content in ScholarWorks. The DRC voted to take this action due to a lack of faculty and student consent for this reuse, unclear legality due to pending lawsuits over AI harvesting of author content, and the fact that some AI bots have been slamming repositories, including ScholarWorks, with un-throttled harvesting, essentially creating denial-of-service attacks. The DRC intends to review this decision periodically.
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