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
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 following statement now appears at the bottom of every record: “Items in ScholarWorks are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.”
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)
Research Datasets (Datasets, models, software, etc.)
Open Educational Resources (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
All
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)