Digital Repositories : 2021-11-05 Meeting notes

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

• Samvera Connect 2021

  • Videos of presentations

  • Slide decks

• Stats

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