2021-10-01 Meeting notes

Date

Oct 1, 2021

Recording

Zoom recording

Presenters

  • @David Walker

  • @Melissa Seelye (Unlicensed)

  • @Matthew Martin (Unlicensed)

  • @Steve Kutay

Open Forum

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DON’T FORGET TO RECORD!

 

Metadata

Melissa

  • Nicole will serve as co-chair

    • focusing on digital archives

  • Priorities:

    1. Moving forward recommendations from last year

      • Some require corresponding data clean-up

    2. Address outstanding requests

    3. Collection metadata

    4. Planning with DAWG

  • Proposed “Field of the Month” initiative

    • recommending changes to practice, help text, clean-up of legacy metadata

    • Title, author/contributor, degree name, resource type, rights, and disciplines among potential fields

  • How tolerant can we be of messy metadata when making field changes?

 

Work Forms Task Force

David

  • Conceptualize separate work forms for non-ETD student works, publications, and presentations

  • Review existing work forms and propose updates to help text, order of fields, and overall functionality based on usability concerns

  • Test changes

  • Review with MWG

(Need for ongoing work on other interface and usability considerations – e.g., record displays, result pages, facets, collections discovery.)

 

Digital Archives

Steve
Beth

  • Changing gears from data-gathering to assisting and advising the implementation of a systemwide DAMS.

  • Looking to ramp up efforts in the Fall / Spring.

  • Working on a charge for the group to better define role.

  • Compiling the results from the DAMS self-evaluation surveys.

  • Planning to start testing San Marcos’ instance of Samvera in the Fall, comparing it to the DAMS performance evaluation tool.

 

Publishing

Matt

  • Public facing / user-oriented documentation website

    • linked to the COLD website

  • CSU environmental scan of Digital Scholarship Centers

  • Open access infrastructure

    • documentation, best practices, outreach initiatives

  • Sustainability of LORDS

  • Noted there has been no movement on systemwide open access policy committee, which was convened at CO.

    • Carmen and Lana are libraries rep

 

ScholarWorks development

David

  • Testing

    • Advanced search

    • Text formatting on abstract & title

    • External repository harvest / import

      • Zenodo

  • Development

    • Year facet

    • Collections

    • Automated record / file split visibility

    • Automated embargo lifter

  • Bug fixes

 

ScholarWorks metadata

David