Digital Repositories : 2020-10-02 Meeting notes

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3m

ScholarWorks maintenance

David

• Fedora server upgraded

  • Need to make further changes for better performance

• DSpace server migration prep

10m

ScholarWorks development

David

• In testing

  • Campus visibility

    • ran into some issues, back to Notch8 to fix

  • Google Scholar

  • Email notifications

    • back on in production

    • wording changes testing on demo

  • Islandora migration scripts

  • OAI-PMH

    • just need to work out the campus mapping

    • presentation at next Technical Services open forum

• In development

  • SWORD

  • Metadata import/export

• Upcoming development

  • Author order

  • Discipline taxonomy

  • ScholarWorks PMs prioritizing other ideas

5m

ScholarWorks data migrations

David

• Completed (since last we spoke)

  • Cal Speaks

• Production

  • Northridge public ETDs and faculty publications

• Test loads

  • Northridge other works

• Handle redirects

• Post-migration metadata fixes / normalization

2m

OJS

David

• OJS documentation site updated URL
  https://journals.calstate.edu/guide

5m

Digital Repositories Committee

Carmen

• Call for host campus for Digital Repositories Annual Meeting for 2021 (Virtual) to go out next week. Planning document available.

• Working on documentation, including:

  • Checklist for CSU librarians working in Digital Repositories

  • the history of the IR in the CSU

  • the history and timeline of the Working groups

  • the evolution of OA policies and initiatives in the CSU, and

  • documentation on retro-digitization projects for ETDs.

5m

Digital Archives Working Group

Alyssa

• Paired up with MWG to begin exploring some data modeling for a new digital archives system.

• DAMS self-evaluation is still being developed.

• Begun looking at costs, staffing, vendor support, storage, and sustainability for digital archives.

• Working on recommendation for digital preservation.

5m

Metadata Working Group

Melissa

• Looking to separate Thesis & Dissertations from Student Works

• Doing a field-by-field review of the forms

  • Started with student work, but will continue to other types.

• Migrated data doesn’t always line-up with current data, which causes problems

  • e.g., working on copyright and rights fields

5m

Publishing

Melissa

• Elsevier gold OA pilot

  • Agreement page provides some basic information

  • Waiting for Elsevier for more in-depth documentation

  • Group including Melissa, Emily & Mark is administrating this on behalf of the CSU

• COLD is interested in a CSU-wide undergraduate journal

  • potentially a McNair’s journal

  • need more infrastructure, training, before this can be realized