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Item Assessing Library-Led Digital Scholarship Projects and Digital Research Operations(Texas Digital Library, 2019-05-22) Davis-Van Atta, Taylor; Thompson, Santi; Willan, ClaudeIn February 2018, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries launched the Digital Research Commons (DRC), a space dedicated to facilitating library-sponsored digital research projects and providing educational programming around open scholarship. By November 2018, the DRC had interacted with 17 departments, 5 colleges, 29 faculty members, and dozens of graduate students at various levels of engagement, from project design consultations to an array of data-oriented workshops to partnerships on multi-year research projects. DRC staff had accepted and sponsored 10 such projects and were establishing collaborative workflows with departments across the Libraries in support of these activities while building lecture, workshop, and reading series that teach core competencies along the digital research lifecycle. From the start, the matter of assessing this broad range of programming has been a priority for DRC staff, especially since few, if any, standards exist for the evaluation of individual born-digital projects or of digital scholarship labs as a whole. Based on content analysis of 24 DRC sponsored project applications, this presentation details the methods used by UH librarians to establish frameworks for assessing sponsored research projects and broader DRC operations, as well as how these metrics have been structured such that they are meaningful to a range of internal and campus stakeholders. The presentation will contribute an assessment case study to a growing, yet still lean, area of focus in academic research libraries.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 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 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 February 2016 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2016-02-17) Park, Kristi; Steans, Ryan; Waugh, Laura; Thompson, SantiItem Finding Roots, Gems, and Inspiration: Understanding Ultimate Use of Digital Materials(2014-03-14) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, Michele; University of Houston; Central Washington UniversityThe University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL) is the point of virtual access for digitized cultural, historical and research materials for the university’s libraries. UHDL developed a "digital cart” system (DCS) that allow users to download high resolution images from its collections. The DCS records important information supplied by the user regarding the ultimate use of the downloaded images. Until now, no formal analysis of the transaction log for the DCS has been completed. This research is significant because little is known about the ultimate use of digital library materials. Current literature suggests that this problem is not uncommon among digital libraries around the world. Our analysis begins to fill a critical gap in the professional conversation on digital libraries by directly contributing to the small body of literature that is asking who uses digital libraries and for what purposes. This presentation will outline how researchers analyzed data from portions of the transaction logs from the DCS from 2010 to 2013. From this analysis, they will highlight some of the interesting and innovative ultimate uses by patrons. The researchers will discuss the study and offer audience members approaches for analyzing data to determine ultimate use and its ramifications inside and outside of the classroom.Item Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at the University of Houston Libraries(2015-04-27) Thompson, Santi; Wu, Annie; Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Prilop, Valerie; Vacek, Rachel; University of HoustonSince 2009, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries has digitized tens of thousands of rare and unique items and made them available for research through its UH Digital Library (UHDL) based on CONTENTdm. Six years later, the need for a digital asset management system (DAMS) that can facilitate large scale digitization, provide innovative features for users, and offer more efficient workflows for librarians and staff has emerged. To address these needs, UH Libraries formed the DAMS Task Force in the summer of 2014. The group’s goal was to identify a system that can support the growing expectations of the UHDL. This presentation will focus on the two core activities, needs assessment and DAMS evaluation, that the task force completed. The key portions of the needs assessment include: the process of literature review on DAMS evaluation and migration; research on tools utilized by peer institutions; and library stakeholder interviews. The presentation will then cover how task force members compiled the results of the assessment to establish DAMS evaluation criteria. The evaluation process consisted of an environmental scan of possible DAMS to test, the creation of criteria to narrow the list of DAMS down for in-depth testing, and the comprehensive testing of the DSpace and Fedora systems. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the task force’s results as well as the lessons learned from the research and evaluation process. It will also reflect on the important role that collaboration, project management, and strategic planning played in this team-based approach to DAMS selection.Item Launching the Texas Data Repository: How to Implement TDR at Your Institution [presentation](2016-10-06) Parks, Kristi; Thompson, SantiThe Texas Data Repository (TDR), a new service offered by the Texas Digital Library, is a platform for publishing and archiving datasets and other data products created by faculty, staff, and students at Texas higher education institutions. The repository, which is built in the open source application Dataverse, will enable TDL member libraries to provide research data management services to their campus communities that will: enable compliance with federal mandates for data archiving and sharing, increase the scholarly impacts of datasets through assignment of persistent online identifiers and citations, and facilitate limited sharing within research groups, data versioning, and long-term preservation. In this webinar, Kristi Park (Director of the TDL) and Santi Thompson (Head of Digital Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries and chair of the TDL Dataverse Implementation Working Group) will give an overview of the repository service, requirements for TDL member participation, and plans for the future of the service.Item Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Forming UH Libraries Digital Preservation Landscape(2015-04-28) Thompson, Santi; Krewer, Andrew; Wu, Annie; Manning, Mary; Spragg, Rob; University of HoustonAs more institutions digitize rare and unique materials and acquire born digital objects, the need for a robust and sustainable digital preservation program is critical for long-term access to this content. In the summer of 2014, the University of Houston Libraries established a Digital Preservation Task Force to create a digital preservation policy and identify strategies, actions, and tools needed to preserve digital assets maintained by UH Libraries. This presentation will outline the digital preservation policy tool kit being used by the task force to generate a digital preservation policy and develop a digital preservation system. A substantial portion of the presentation will focus on the creation of the digital preservation policy for UH Libraries. The task force selected the Action Plan for Developing a Digital Preservation Program as a model to draft the policy. Conforming to the OAIS Reference Model and the Trusted Digital Repository guidelines, this document guides institutions through the creation of a high-level framework for digital preservation, drafting local digital preservation policies and procedures, and identifying resources needed to sustain a digital preservation program. Presenters will describe how they used this tool to generate digital preservation documentation and will share portions of their work to date. Additionally, the presentation will focus on the methods used to identify potential digital information systems to assist with the preservation process. Presenters will outline the process of selecting three potential systems to evaluate and share the task forces results from testing one system. The presentation will conclude with recommendations from the task force and a discussion on how others can apply the methods used by UH Libraries to implement a digital preservation solution for their materials.Item Session 3D | Giving CRediT Taxonomy its Due(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-25) Barba, Shelley; Chapman Tripp, Hannah; Kapacinskas, Natalia; Lowe, David; Thompson, SantiA subgroup of the TDL-sponsored Research Integrity Working Group has been meeting monthly to discuss curriculum development and planning for a patron-focused workshop themed around authority issues in research and publishing with a focus on the CRediT taxonomy. Join us as we discuss the path of our work and what we’ve learned thus far about the use, implementation, and scholarly controversy of the CRediT taxonomy, which defines 14 roles related to creating and authoring research-related works. As an academic publishing topic, the CRediT Taxonomy has implications for scholarly communication. As a tactic for managing power relationships (such as between a graduate student and tenured faculty member), it has implications for equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives. As a bibliographic feature, it has implications for metadata and indexing specialists. As a crediting mechanism, it has implications stretching from evaluative processes to the integrity of academic research. We invite you to help us as we think through effective ways to introduce this seldom discussed topic with our faculty and students.Item TDL Data Management Working Group Report(2015-08) Herbert, Bruce; Buckbee, Martha; Donald, Jeremy; Esteva, Maria; Lyon, Colleen; Peters, Christie; Park, Kristi; Steans, Ryan; Thompson, SantiThe need for Data Management services is one of two large‐scale needs consistently expressed by Texas Digital Library (TDL) members, a need driven in part by the February 2013 mandate from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy to make the results of federally funded research publicly accessible. The TDL Data Management Working Group convened in Fall 2013 to begin to address this gap, with a particular focus on finding solutions for making research data accessible and reusable. The charge of the group was to help the Texas Digital Library determine what kinds of data management services it could provide at a consortial level. This report discusses the group's process in evaluating various research data platforms and its recommendations to the consortium for further work.Item Teaching Data: Developing Data Instruction Using a Multi-Level Competency Model [presentation](2017-02-28) Williamson, Peace OssomItem Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Version 2.0(2015-09) Potvin, Sarah; Thompson, Santi; Rivero, Monica; Long, Kara; Lyon, Colleen; Park, KristiItem Uncovering the Mysteries of Metadata Harvesting: Optimizing Digital Library Content for Summon Discovery Tool Access(2013-03-26) Brett, Kelsey Renee; Thompson, Santi; University of HoustonOne of the most valuable attributes of a discovery system is its ability to harvest locally owned digital materials and make them discoverable through a single search box along with the rest of the library’s collection. At the University of Houston Libraries, we sought to make local digital content more findable in our discovery system, Serials Solutions Summon. In order to do this, we had to better understand the way digital library content in CONTENTdm mapped to Summon and work within the constraints of each commercial product to achieve our desired outcome. While investigating the ways Summon harvested our digital content, we discovered that a majority our digital material was being described by a catch-all content type called “Archival Material” and the extensive efforts made by our metadata librarians and staff to describe digital items were being lost in the harvesting process. We also discovered that there was no way to limit a search to exclusively digital library materials. This motivated us to explore the details of the Summon harvesting process and develop solutions to enhance the discoverability and description of digital materials within Summon. Our poster will outline our efforts to increase the findability of digital materials, including our research of the OAI mapping process that was happening behind-the-scenes at Serials Solutions, our discussions with them about the possibilities of modifying the default mapping that was currently in place, and the strategies we developed achieve our desired outcomes. We will discuss the challenges and successes that we had throughout the process, and how we modified our local content to work well with our discovery product.Item Vamp It Up and Make It Better: Auditing and Upgrading Metadata in the UH Digital Library(2013-03-21) Thompson, Santi; Wu, Annie; University of HoustonSince 2009 the University of Houston Libraries have expanded access to the rare and special collections through the University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL). Three years and nearly 50,000 digital items later, UHDL has the potential to be a powerful resource for researchers of all kinds. To facilitate this kind of research, users rely on UHDL metadata to be robust, reliable, retrievable and sharable. While the current state of metadata in the digital library allows for browsing and searching, missing and inconsistent metadata restrict both discoverability and interoperability. As a result of these barriers, the Metadata and Bibliographic Services Department is initiating a project to audit and upgrade the existing metadata produced for the UHDL. This presentation outlines the audit and upgrade process to date. It provides an overview of our methodology, including focus group interviews, data inspection, and benchmarking. It also identifies key recommendations and strategies for upgrading the existing UHDL metadata, including guidelines for future UHDL metadata creation. The presentation is designed to offer suggestions to other institutions interested in conducting a metadata audit. It also encourages audience members to share other tools and techniques to implement an audit.