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Item A Consortial Approach to Research Data Repository Services(2016-08-05) Waugh, LauraIncreasingly, funding agencies and journals are adopting data policies that require researchers to deposit underlying research data into a repository. The need for data management services is among the top needs consistently expressed by members of the Texas Digital Library (TDL), a consortium of higher education institutions throughout the state. In response, the TDL has developed a new consortial data repository service with guidance from its 22 members through a series of cross-institutional working groups. This presentation will be an overview of the process toward developing a consortial research data repository service and plans for outreach and implementation.Item Diving into Data: Implementing a Data Repository at the Texas Digital Library(ASIS&T, 2016-05-04) Thompson, SantiThis poster documents the progress of two Texas Digital Library (TDL) working groups focused on the storage and accessibility of research data. The first group, the TDL Data Management Working Group, selected a platform to act as the statewide repository. To do this, the group created a set of use cases to formulate evaluation criteria for testing potential systems. After testing Dataverse, the team made a recommendation to move forward with its implementation. A second group, the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group, is currently charged with launching an instance of the Dataverse open source platform as the statewide data repository for Texas. As more institutions consider developing a repository for research data, our poster presentation offers a case study on the assessment of data repositories, including potential methods and criteria for evaluating systems, as well as the challenges and benefits to building a collaborative, consortial data repository. The Problem The need for Data Management services is one of two large‐scale needs consistently expressed by members of the TDL, a consortium of academic libraries throughout the state. In particular, members are seeking a repository that offers researchers a platform for publishing, citing, reusing, and preserving research data. In response to this need, TDL has formed a series of working groups aimed at building a statewide data repository and developing services to fulfill researcher needs in the state.Item DSpace 4: TDL Upgrades and New Features [presentation](2014-09-30) Kainerstorfer, Cameron; McElfresh, Laura; Starcher, Chris; Weidner, Andrew; Bradley, Effie; Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanItem Perspectives on Preservation Strategies for Digital Content: Lessons Learned(2013-05-28) Barba, Shelley; Perrin, Joy; Starcher, Chris; Winkler, Heidi; Yang, Le; Texas Tech UniversityThis panel will discuss Texas Tech University Digital Library’s experiences with preservation in the past eight years including failures and near-misses that caused TTU to seek a better system. This all-encompassing system influences all processes of digitization from scanning, metadata creation, online display, and to long term storage maintenance. Discussion will include how we created policies and procedures for handling a variety of materials (including scanning resolution and file type) and a file naming system and folder structure. Other topics will include: balancing work on new collections while correcting older collection, managing a growing digital preservation system when few understand what you are doing or why, reaching out to the university community about preservation needs, and staying a step ahead of our current technology to ensure that we make fully informed preservation and migration decisions. The panel will be comprised of two librarians who were a part of the creation of the TTU Digital Library, two who were hired at the mid-point, and two recent hires; thus, giving varied perspectives on the collections and preservation issues. The panel will be in a “talk-show” format with prepared questions and discussions, and then opened for questions from the audience.