2022-02-07 DRC Meeting notes

Quartex as DAMS?

Carmen Mitchell

• https://www.quartexcollections.com

• Suggestion from SFSU Dean.

• No budget for hosted system.

• Refer to DAWG for review?

Digital Archives Report

Carmen Mitchell David Walker

OpenAlex

Carmen Mitchell

From Mark Bilby: In case you hadn’t heard about the release of this open global academic publication database and API from the intrepid folks at OurResearch. https://docs.openalex.org/

It builds on Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), which is now deprecated, but it is far easier to query and scrape than MAG, Scopus, or Web of Science, and built with an entirely open source and open data architecture. PIDs for five entities (Works, Authors, Venues, Institutions, Concepts) are sufficient to make an API call. Here’s a link, for example, to all of its publications by CSU Fullerton affiliated authors: https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=institutions.id:I142934699

Might be something for the DRC and ScholComm committees to consider. With or apart from the ORCID member API, it could be the basis for a tool or workflow to automate the bulk finding of publication upload candidates and perhaps also the bulk harvesting and ingest of open access (CC licensed) content metadata and knowledge products into ScholarWorks, as well as the population and updating of faculty profiles, expert guides, annual reports, etc.

DAWG update

Eric Milenkiewicz (Unlicensed) (or DAWG rep)

• Is DAWG still working off of the Digital Collections Development Plan?

  • DAWG has not been actively working on this document, but has been working on tasks with an eye toward the upcoming DAMS. As implementation gets closer we’ll revisit this document to see what still needs to be fleshed out

• In-Process (close to completion):

  • DAMS Self Evaluation Toolkit is in its final draft and will be finalized at the February DAWG meeting, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1owzXwIDHQJsr8DdRzlh-OsY8cbgJVLpKvUuvUtCCVMw/edit?usp=sharing

    Hyrax testing of the CSUSM instance is underway using the performance evaluation tool created by DAWG and should be completed in February, Samvera/Hyrax testing notes

• Upcoming:

  • Create a Proof of Concept/Demo of Hyrax for COLD in coordination with Dave Walker to show an example of what a systemwide shared DAMS in Hyrax could look like using sample collections from a few campuses. Preliminary planning begins in February with possible access to a CO hosted instance of Hyrax setup for the Proof of Concept in March.

  • Work with the MWG on the DAMS metadata schema. Start TBD.

  • Possible DSpace collection analysis (e.g., extent, format types, metadata) for DAMS seed collections. Start TBD (when DAMS platform has been selected and implementation is moving forward).

Announcements

Annual meeting planning committee is working on the CFP; STIM is also planning a LibIT meeting for this summer. We will cross-promote the events and will possibly plan a joint meeting in 2023.