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Item Batch It-A Quicker Way to Bring ETDs into the Bibliographic Utility(2013-02-08) Thompson, Santi; Wu, AnnieAs the University of Houston moves toward an all-electronic thesis and dissertation submission process, the ability to provide efficient description and access to the increased volume of ETDs is more important than ever. This presentation will describe the University of Houston Libraries’ recent efforts to explore and expand batch processing in our ETD workflow. The batch process provides a method to load edit and to import ETD records into the library catalog in a far more automated manner. The presentation will outline the barriers that existed in the previous workflow, highlight key resources (including Vireo, MarcEdit, and OCLC Connexion) used to automate the workflow, describe unintended challenges, and discuss the outcomes and increased efficiency yielded by the new batch process. While the presentation offers useful information for other institutions interested in batching ETDs for inclusion in library catalogs, it also aims to facilitate a discussion regarding the successes and pitfalls that other institutions have encountered while utilizing batch processing to make ETDs accessible for users.Item Creating a Roadmap for Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Houston Libraries(2016-05-26) Thompson, Santi; Been, Josh; Bennett, Miranda; Hilyer, Lee Andrew; Malizia, Michelle; University of HoustonOver the last decade, scholarship has predominantly originated and lived in the digital environment. Not surprisingly, scholars, researchers, and students are increasingly in need of skills related to data literacy and manipulation, data management, and data archiving and preservation. Libraries, traditionally well suited to assisting users with these issues in analog formats, are playing larger, more active roles in the digital environment as well – enhancing the research, teaching, and learning missions of many institutions of higher education. One approach academic libraries have used to respond to the growing digital needs among users is the development of digital scholarship services and centers. According to Lippincott, Hemmasi, and Lewis, these programs offer services focused on building and strengthening “relationships” with their users and by offering technological expertise in some core areas, including data visualization in the environmental sciences, data mining of texts in the humanities, and GIS representations in the social sciences.[1] In October 2015, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries’ administration charged a group to develop recommendations for how the Libraries should move forward in the growing area of digital scholarship. Since then, the Digital Scholarship Services Team (DSST) has been hard at work researching and developing a roadmap for potential future services. In this presentation, DSST members address the methodology used to formulate the roadmap, highlight findings from their work, and share lessons learned from this collaborative, cross-departmental process. They start by describing the tasks performed to generate future plans around digital scholarship, including the development of a working definition of digital scholarship, the assessment of current needs associated with digital scholarship activities, the benchmarking of service models at other institutions, and the scanning of existing services currently offered in the libraries and on campus. Next, DSST members discuss key results, prioritized around popular services in the field of digital scholarship, including data visualization, digital humanities, and data repository services. Finally, the group reflects on the collaborative aspects of their work, including their close ties to the UH Libraries’ Strategic Planning Team. While only just started, DSST members believe that their work (and the roadmap they developed) contributes to the growing digital scholarship efforts among institutions in Texas. They believe this presentation will facilitate audience conversation, particularly on the challenges of starting and sustaining digital scholarship activities. [1] Joan K. Lippincott, Harriette Hemmasi, and Vivian Marie Lewis, “Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers,” Educause Review (June 16, 2014): http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/trends-digital-scholarship-centers.Item From Meow to ROAR: University of Houston s Expansion of Open Access Repository Services(2018-05-16) Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Davis-Van Atta, Taylor; Washington, Anne; Scott, Bethany; Townes, Adam; Brett, Kelsey; Liu, XipingAs part of the University of Houston (UH) Libraries 2017-2021 Strategic Plan, a cross-departmental implementation team was formed to expand our open access research repository services beyond electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) to include a broad range of faculty, staff, and student works. The result of this effort is Cougar Research Open Access Repositories (ROAR): a portal to the UH Institutional Repository (UHIR) and the UH Data Repository (UHDR) which host scholarly works and data generated by the UH community. This presentation details the team s phased activities including internal preparation, pilot program, and finding and recommendations. Sub-teams were formed to carry out specific tasks, such as building the Cougar ROAR platform, developing ROAR policies and guidelines, enhancing institutional repository functions, scheduling campus promotional activities, and launching the open access pilot program. The presentation will also include strategies for gaining administrative and faculty buy-in, findings from faculty focus groups, insights into the metadata and technical considerations for the two systems, modes of deposit, training and promotion strategies, and a discussion of lessons learned. Many universities and research organizations are seeking to expand their open access repository services or migrate systems. This presentation will offer both general strategies and specific solutions that will be helpful to those and other institutions promoting new modes of scholarly communication.Item Getting Started with the Texas Data Repository and Data Competencies [presentation](2017-02-17) Park, Kristi; Thompson, Santi; Williamson, Peace OssomItem Learning By Example: Connecting Data Competencies with the Texas Data Repository [presentation](2017-03-09) Park, Kristi; Thompson, SantiItem Updating a community metadata standard: Challenges and outcomes(2016-05-25) Long, Kara; Rivero, Monica; Thompson, Santi; Potvin, Sarah; Park, Kristi; Lyon, Colleen; Baylor University; Rice University; University of Houston; Texas A&M University; Texas Digital Library; University of Texas at AustinIn 2014 the Texas Digital Library (TDL) convened a working group, charged with updating the existing descriptive metadata standard for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), published by TDL in 2008. The metadata working group’s report and accompanying data dictionary were released in September of 2015 (http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/68437). The group’s mixed-methods approach to revising the standard revealed divergences between the 2008 guidelines as they were originally published and the emergent practices of librarians, repository administrators, and others involved in ETD workflows. The updated standard needed to address and recommend significant changes to the Vireo ETD Submission Management System, also developed and hosted by TDL. In this presentation, members of the TDL ETD metadata working group will discuss the effort to update the standard, with a focus on negotiating barriers to dramatic shifts in community standards. We will also discuss outstanding issues, areas of future focus, and the difficult-to-achieve balance between ease of adoption and creating an optimal descriptive metadata standard.