2021-11-05 Meeting notes

Date

Nov 5, 2021

Recording

Zoom recording

Presenters

  • @David Walker

  • @Melissa Seelye (Unlicensed)

Open Forum

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DON’T FORGET TO RECORD!

 

2022 (virtual) meeting

Melissa

  • San Francisco will be hosting

  • Fully virtual June 1-2, 2002

  • Let us know about any major conflict

 

Field of the month

Melissa

  • Title

    • help text has been changed re: title case in addition to sentence case

    • clean-up is optional

    • instructions will be forthcoming

      • both to digrepo & scholarworks-pm listservs

  • Author field in December

 

ScholarWorks infrastructure

David

  • Since last year:

    • ScholarWorks servers upgraded

    • DSpace servers upgraded

  • Fedora database upgrade now complete

    • Much faster!

 

ScholarWorks development

David

  • Testing

    • Advanced search

    • Text formatting on title

  • Development

    • Year facet

    • Collections

    • Automated record / file split visibility

    • Automated embargo lifter

  • Bugs

    • File campus visibility change

    • Uploading new version of file

    • Use enhancement request form to report:

      • bugs

      • usability / interface issues

 

ScholarWorks metadata

David

  • Major post-migration metadata clean-up done.

  • Identifiers cleaned-up:

    • ISBN

    • ISSN

    • OCLC number

    • DOI

    • Related URL

    • Other identifiers

 

Misc. Stuff

David

 

Work Forms Task Force

David

  • Gathering outside examples

  • Critically assessing the existing forms

  • Feedback

    • annoying to login and be dropped into dashboard

    • send David examples of records that need to be converted into another model

  • MWG’s vision is toward a smaller number of forms

  • Some systems (e.g., DigitalCommons) have smaller number