Digital Repositories Committee : 2024-02-14 Meeting notes

5m

CO Updates

David

• COLD next week:

• strategic plan

  • 3-4 areas, esp. staff training;

  • journal publishing; ULMS; shared-collections/systems;

• Last Dspace migration files/records;

• large file delivery; TIFFs, video; a/v delivery:

• statistics display; how items are being used; type, etc.

  • Google Analytics (primarily)

  • Also Self storing of data on records to create own reports

5m

Digital Repositories Annual Meeting Update

All

• Call for proposals:

  • we got our first proposal for a session!

  • Get the word out, encourage submissions;

  • cf. Digital Repositories Annual Meeting Planning Document

  • End Feb / Mid March x2 CFP reminders;

10m

Working group updates

WG liason

• DAWG: sub groups for documentation teams

  • help infrastructure: policies; database tutorials; best practices digitization & preservation;

  • system needs & user needs;

  • guidance for now & future groups;

• IRWG: At our last meeting, we checked in on some of our old business items. Inspired by the work done by DAWG, we are making (slow) progress on the ScholarWorks Toolkit.

15m

Goals / projects

All

• Best practices/trusted repositories

• Plan for progress:

  • Part A: 2/14 [completed]

  • Part B1: 3/13 [in progress]

    • Meet in March for co-working session;

  • Part B2: 4/10

  • Part C: 5/8

  • Prioritization and report: May - June

• Trusted Repositories/Best Practices IG

  • TRAC Metrics

  • TRAC spreadsheet

  • Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S0R9OG0B2OgyrK9yDctt7fFQX3KGwbOCG6Tq22_Y9fg/edit?usp=sharing

Parking Lot

• Future goals

  • Faculty submissions

  • Workflows

  • Interoperability between platforms

  • Identifying ongoing funding / revenue sources and models