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Item April 2013 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2013-04-17) Steans, Ryan; Park, KristiItem April 2014 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2014-04-20) Hanken-Kurtz, Debra; Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanItem April 2016 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2016-04-20) Park, Kristi; Steans, Ryan; Waugh, LauraItem August 2013 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2013-08-21) Hanken-Kurtz, Debra; Steans, Ryan; Park, KristiItem August 2014 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2014-08-20) Hanken-Kurtz, Debra; Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanItem August 2015 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2015-08-19) Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanItem August 2016 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2016-08-17) Park, Kristi; Steans, Ryan; Waugh, LauraItem 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 A Consortial Model for Research Data Services Using Dataverse(2016-06-14) Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanThe Texas Research Data Repository is a multi-institutional project of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) to develop a statewide data repository for Texas universities. The TDL is developing the data repository service with guidance from its 22 members through a series of cross-institutional working groups. It has sought to respect the spirit of "loose federation" that has guided the TDL's deployment of services over its history, honoring the need for local control over workflows while creating a meaningful shared service. In this spirit, TDL is implementing a pilot repository, using open source Dataverse, that will be collectively managed by representatives at TDL member libraries, marrying the benefits of a single repository (i.e., operation at scale) with local institutional control of associated services. Following a pilot in spring 2016, the group will assess the service and make recommendations to refine it prior to a production launch. In this presentation, members of the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group will discuss the repository's system architecture and its unique hybrid service design, which leverages the structure of "distributed control" inherent in Dataverse. The group will also reflect on lessons gleaned from the pilot and subsequent assessment.Item December 2011 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2011-12-21) Steans, RyanItem December 2013 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2013-12-18) Hanken-Kurtz, Debra; Park, Kristi; Steans, RyanItem December 2015 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2015-12-16) Park, Kristi; Steans, Ryan; Waugh, LauraItem Developments and Innovations in the Vireo 4.x ETD Submittal System(2016-05-26) Larrison, Stephanie; Krumholz, Gad; Creel, James; Huff, Jeremy; Welling, William; Mathew, Rincy; Hahn, Doug; Bolton, Michael; Steans, Ryan; Texas State University; Texas A&M University; Texas Digital LibraryThe Vireo ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Submission and Management System began service in the graduate office at Texas A&M in 2008. An open source software project, Vireo has now been deployed at over a dozen universities in Texas and almost as many outside of the state, and is used to process thousands of theses and dissertations every semester. Developed primarily as a collaboration of Texas A&M University Libraries and the Texas Digital Library, new features and changes originate from – and are approved by - the Vireo Users Group, a nation-wide community of practitioners from both libraries and graduate schools. This community effort has resulted in the release of new versions of the software on a continual basis. The current release in deployment is Vireo 3.0.5. As practices have matured, needs and expectations of students, administrators, and libraries of record have evolved and the community has become aware of the potential for more robust uses of the software. In Summer 2016, Vireo 4 will undergo its beta release and first deployments. This latest version involves a fundamental reimagining of the flexibility and power of the system. Customers of the Vireo software have come to recognize the diversity of needs among various schools, programs, and departments, and version 4 addresses these needs with highly customizable workflows that can be applied at any level from the institution to the specific degree. In a related initiative, input forms can now be customized with controlled vocabularies to enhance discipline-specific metadata and facilitate knowledge-capture from authors at the time of submittal. Finally, the software is being migrated to a modern web-framework using Spring Boot and Angular.js. The reimagined functionality has meant that the migration is more than a simple re-write, and required software developers to devise a novel, highly sophisticated data model to efficiently support new dynamic use cases. This presentation will discuss the workings of the Vireo User Group and the major changes this will mean for Vireo as a tool and for users. We will discuss the software development process, technical decisions made among the development team in conjunction with the Co-Chair of the Vireo Users Group, and the plans surrounding the 4.0 release.Item Diving into Data: Implementing a Data Repository at the Texas Digital Library(2016-05-26) Thompson, Santi; Park, Kristi; Steans, Ryan; Herbert, Bruce; Quigley, ElizabethThe need for Data Management services is one of two large‐scale needs consistently expressed by members of the Texas Digital Library (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. This panel session presentation will document the work of two TDL working groups focused on the storage and accessibility of research data, as well as connect their efforts to a growing number of research data repositories worldwide: The first group, the TDL Data Management Working Group, selected a platform to act as the statewide repository. Panel presenters will outline the group’s methodology, including the development of researcher use cases and system evaluation criteria and the testing of Dataverse, an open source platform for research data sharing and management developed by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). They will also highlight the results of these efforts and discuss why the group recommended that TDL and its members implement the Dataverse repository. Secondly, presenters will share the current activities of the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group, which is charged with launching an instance of Dataverse as the statewide data repository for Texas. Updates will focus on the work of four subgroups (Budget and Business Model, Policy and Governance, Technical Configuration, and Workflow and Outreach) as well as the results and lessons learned from an initial pilot launch of the software in Spring 2016. Finally, a representative of the Dataverse project from Harvard IQSS will situate the TDL Dataverse project within a wider community of Dataverse implementations, both at Harvard and elsewhere across the globe. As more institutions consider launching a repository for research data, our panel presentation offers important lessons that others may value. Attendees of our session will learn more about 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.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 DSpace 5 Release Webinar [presentation](2016-01-20) Elkins, Susan; Luttrell, Robert; Mitchell, Alexandra; McElfresh, Laura; Lindsey, Nerissa; Yang, Le; Steans, Ryan; Park, Kristi; Waugh, LauraItem DSpace 5 Release Webinar [presentation](2015-12-07) Elkins, Susan; Luttrell, Robert; Mitchell, Alexandra; McElfresh, Laura; Lindsey, Nerissa; Yang, Le; Steans, RyanItem DuraCloud™ and Flexible Digital Preservation at the Texas Digital Librar(2015-04-27) Steans, Ryan; Krumholz, Gad; Hanken-Kurtz, Debra; Texas Digital LibraryThe Texas Digital Library is now offering preservation service via DuraCloud™, an open source technology developed by DuraSpace. In 2014, the membership of the TDL formed a Working Group to explore the software and define best practices, given the diverse approaches to the issue of preservation. In January 2015 we first announced the service and made the service available in Spring of 2015. In this presentation, the Texas Digital Library will describe how our implementation of the DuraCloud™ software provides multiple upload options for preservationists through a selection of interfaces and tools intended to serve a variety of audiences, from librarians at their desktop to server administrators working at the command line. We will describe how DuraCloud™@TDL fits in to varying environments as a primary or third party preservation solution, and we will also define the array of options for durable, reliable storage infrastructure for preservationists in the care of the unique collections of their institutions. Looking forward, TDL will discuss the issues regarding preservation management and challenges we are addressing with users such as format management and metadata management within DuraCloud™@TDL. TDL will present planned next steps for additional services such as integration of DuraCloud™@TDL with DSpace, using DuraCloud™ as a platform for utilization of the Digital Preservation Network, and the potential for using DuraCloud™ to serve content to the public. We will be joined by representatives of DuraSpace who will present information about the ongoing development of DuraCloud™as well as future plans for DuraCloud features/functionality and integrations. In addition, TDL and DuraSpace will discuss how TDL community activities tie to the broader trends of DuraCloud customer use and the joint efforts between the two organizations to create resources and best practices around preserving content in a cloud environment. Lastly, ways in which TDL and others can assist development as part of the DuraCloud user-base and the overall DuraSpace community will be highlighted.Item February 2013 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2013-02-20) Steans, Ryan; Park, Kristi