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Item A "3-Stage Banner" Concept for DSpace(2016-05-25) Zhang, Zhongda; University of OklahomaLike many statewide consortial repositories, the SHAREOK system in Oklahoma (https://shareok.org) strives to present a unified appearance while giving partner institutions some control over their own branding, as well as custom branding for their internal customers’ communities and collections. We’ve implemented a mobile-responsive “3-stage banner” concept that allows for a uniform shoulder anchor, a block for the institution’s logo, and a block for the community or collection logo.Item Batch Importing into DSpace with the SAFCreator(2016-05-24) Creel, James; Texas A&M UniversityA commonly difficult use case for any digital repository is the ingest of large batches of items. Batches can come from all sorts of campus and community stakeholders with varying types and quantities of content, differing ways of representing metadata, and unique needs for access control and licensing. The heterogeneous nature of batches presents a fundamental challenge to automating the importation workflow and has lead to ad hoc and brittle solutions. The DSpace institutional repository software enjoys wide adoption in academia and industry, and is a flagship service of the Texas Digital Library to its member institutions. DSpace offers a simple but powerful batch import format called SAF (Simple Archive Format) that allows for metadata assignment, licensing, organization of files into bundles, and authorization management. SAF is simpler than other programmatic means of importation into DSpace such as the METS SIP (Submission Information Package) used by SWORD or HTTP POST requests to the REST API. However, generating SAF batches usually still requires external software, programming work, or a combination of both. There have been some efforts to provide generalized tools for processing metadata and content into SAF (notably Peter Dietz’s SAFBuilder https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/SAFBuilder), but when batches have special requirements regarding licensing and permissions, it has usually entailed custom code to do the processing. In addition, the spreadsheets often used to encode metadata are prone to errors such as invalid field labels and incorrect or missing filenames. It greatly accelerates a batch loading workflow to get validation of the input prior generating the archive and attempting to import it into DSpace. A new tool designated SAFCreator aims to provide enough flexibility to eliminate programming requirements for a wide variety of batch loads, and has been used by librarians at Texas A&M to ingest content into several collections this past year. The tool is packaged as a lightweight desktop java application. A list of important features includes: Input of metadata and file references as CSV spreadsheets; support for any number of schema.element.qualifier labels; support for multiple values in a field; wildcards to select all the files in a directory; customizable item licenses; customizable read access policies on items; modular verifiers for batches. The code is open source at https://github.com/jcreel/SAFCreator and under current development. I welcome and encourage pull requests for new features and verifiers. In this workshop, I will demonstrate the tool and provide instruction on DSpace batch imports with SAF.Item Bepress to DSpace Migration: A Case Study(Texas Digital Library, 2019-09-24) Woodward, NicholasThe University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) approached the Texas Digital Library (TDL) in 2018 about migrating their scholarly repository from Bepress Digital Commons to a new DSpace 6.x instance hosted by TDL. In the course of this project TDL developed a workflow for the repository migration that included: using Amazon Web Services for digital object storage; developing code for preprocessing, metadata mapping, and generating DSpace item packages; and incorporating existing DSpace import tooling for repository data. In collaboration with UNTHSC, TDL staff created a process for converting a community/collection hierarchy built in a spreadsheet to an XML-formatted structure suitable for import into DSpace. Additionally, TDL developed code to create Simple Archive Format packages for digital objects in the repository that incorporated 1) a metadata crosswalk (also built in collaboration with UNTHSC staff), 2) data about the repository harvested from its OAI-PMH feed, and 3) the metadata and digital objects themselves located in S3. Finally, TDL worked with UNTHSC staff to customize the configuration and look-and-feel of the new DSpace instance to meet their needs. This presentation will discuss in detail our Bepress to DSpace migration from initial design, to the project execution, including successes and challenges, to the conclusion and assessment of the project deliverables. TDL will lay out our experiences from throughout the collaborative process, what we learned along the way, and offer suggestions for others considering similar migration projects.Item Building Trust Together: A Consortium Approach to Open Repositories via DSpace and the Texas Digital Library(2022-06-08) Park, Kristi; Woodward, Nicholas; Lyon, Colleen; Hight, Alexa; Johnson, EmilyThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a collaborative consortium of Texas universities that builds capacity among its membership for ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. TDL hosts DSpace digital repositories for its member institutions, allowing them to provide reliable online access to their scholarly and pedagogic output. TDL supports its members through the TDL Dspace Users Group, an open group for anyone in Texas currently using or interested in DSpace repository software. The User Group benefits members by providing: a forum for discussion and mutual support on issues of concern to DSpace users, a means for the TDL to update members on upgrades, training opportunities, and other DSpace-related work of the TDL staff, and a channel for rebroadcasting any DuraSpace news related to the DSpace software to the Texas DSpace community. The user group benefits by reduced costs through shared IT resources and distributed expertise to better support the creation and management of dspace repositories. In this panel we will discuss the function of the user group, as well as the costs and outcomes associated with a consortium approach to repository management using DSpace.Item Collaborative Exploration of the Newest DSpace: Updates from the TDL DSpace 7 Task Force(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Park, Kristi; Lyon, ColleenThe long-anticipated release of DSpace version 7 has arrived. With support ending Summer 2023 for older versions, the TDL DSpace User Group put together a task force to collaborate on testing and documentation. Members of the DSpace 7 Upgrades Task Force, representing several TDL member institutions, will discuss the process of organizing a multi-organization working team, testing new software features, and planning for migrations of their institutional repositories. How do libraries from different university systems work together in testing and documenting DSpace 7 features for their own IRs and those of others? How can the experiences of this task force be applied to other consortial efforts around software upgrades?Item Digital Collections Inventory Project(Texas Digital Library, 2019-05-08) Zipperer, RachaelItem DSpace Accessibility Audit Summer 2020(Texas Digital Library, 2020-09-15) Smithroat, KatherineItem Establishing a Land Surveying Digital Map Library: Review of Process and Technologies Created and Leveraged(2016-05-25) Smith, Richard; Hodges, Ann; Holland, Seneca; Nguyen, Son; Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiThe Special Collections and Archives Department in the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi contains nine land surveying map collections. These map collections contain tens of thousands of land surveying maps and documents of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, and the surrounding Texas region from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. These historic map collections are currently only available to in-person library visitors, restricting the availability of these maps to only those who are able to travel to Corpus Christi. The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI), in collaboration with the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, are scanning these map collections so an online digital map library can be established. Currently, over 28,000 documents have been scanned and catalogued from two of the nine map collections. During the course of scanning and cataloging the map collections, we have purchased a large-format pass-through scanner, large-format flatbed scanner, and a book scanner. Additionally, we have developed scanning and cataloging procedures, an automatic scan cropping application, a web-based cataloging system, and a prototype web-based spatial search portal. To publish the map collection to the public, we have chosen DSpace, hosted by the Texas Digital Library, as our publishing platform. In order to publish our map collection from our cataloging system to DSpace, we have utilized the DSpace REST API to create a custom solution that allows us to publish directly from within our cataloging system. Additionally, as we are spatially locating the maps to their locations on Earth, we have created a prototype spatial search portal that links to the items in DSpace, thereby allowing the public to find maps in the collection by dragging a search box on a web map. The focus of this presentation will be a review of the entire project up to its current status. The review will cover our scanning hardware, cataloging software, scanning procedures, cataloging procedures, use of DSpace REST API for publishing documents, and the prototype spatial search portal. The presentation will be a mix of high-level discussion, system demonstration, and technical explanation.Item Establishing a Land Surveying Digital Map Library: Review of Process and Technologies Created and Leveraged(2017-05-24) Smith, Richard; Rudowsky, Catherine; Hodges, Anne; Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiThe Special Collections and Archives Department in the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi contains nine land surveying map collections. These map collections contain tens of thousands of land surveying maps and documents of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, and the surrounding Texas region from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. These historic map collections are currently only available to in-person library visitors, restricting the availability of these maps to only those who are able to travel to Corpus Christi. The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI), in collaboration with the Mary and Jeff Bell Library, is scanning these map collections so an online digital map library can be established. Currently, over 66,000 items have been scanned and cataloged from two of the nine map collections. During the course of scanning and cataloging the map collections, we have developed scanning and cataloging procedures, an automatic scan cropping application, a web-based cataloging system (BandoCat), a web-based document transcription system, and a web-based map georectification system. To publish the map collection to the public, we have chosen DSpace, hosted by the Texas Digital Library, as our publishing platform. We have utilized the DSpace REST API to create a custom solution that allows us to publish directly from within our cataloging system. The focus of this presentation will be a review of the recent progress on the project up to its current status. The review will cover our scanning procedures, cataloging procedures, use of DSpace REST API for publishing documents, and our cataloging, transcription, and georectification software. The presentation will be a mix of high-level discussion, system demonstration, and technical explanation.Item February 2018 Forum(Texas Digital Library, 2018-02-21) Park, Kristi; Mumma, Courtney; DeForest, LeaPresentation for the Februrary 2018 Texas Digital Library (TDL) Forum. This TDL Forum featured Kristi Park providing an update on TDL staffing, and service upgrades to Vireo 4 and DSpace 6. Courtney Mumma discussed the recent digital preservation work including Texas A&M University Libraries' content ingest into the Digital Preservation Network (DPN). Courtney also reminded participants to apply for registration to the Digital Preservation Management Workshop. Lea DeForest discussed TDL's monthly Twitter chat, titled #MetadataMixer and reminded members of upcoming deadlines for TCDL as well as TDL award nominations.Item Here Be Dragons: Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Legacy Thesis and Dissertation Digitization(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Weidner, Andrew; Wu, AnnieItem Hi DSpace, nice to meet you. I'm Pressbooks.(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Johnson, Emily; Ivie, DeeAnnIn the past 2 years The University of Texas at San Antonio launched instances of Pressbooks and DSpace to the university community. As the OER and Scholarly Communication Librarians, we were interested in learning more about best practices and workflows at other universities for archiving OERs in institutional repositories. Afterwards, in conjunction with the Library Systems department, we developed a workflow for automatically pushing OERs created in Pressbooks into our DSpace repository using a SWORD protocol. This presentation will describe our findings from the background research we conducted, the process for linking Pressbooks and DSpace, and future work we will be doing in this area.Item Inter-University Upper Atmosphere Global Observation NETwork: Metadata Database for Geoscience by using DSpace(2011-06-08) Koyama, Yukinobu; Kouno, Takahisa; Hori, Tomoaki; Abe, Shuji; Yoshida, Daiki; Hayashi, Hiroo; Shinbori, Atsuki; Tanaka, Yoshimasa; Kagitani, Masato; UeNo, Satoru; Kaneda, Naoki; Tadokoro, Hiroyasu; Yoneda, Mizuki; Kyoto University; University of Tokyo; Nagoya University; Kyushu University; Weather Information and Communications Service; Tohoku UniversityItem Intermediate DSpace: Metadata Imports and Exports(2017-03-22) McElfresh, LauraItem Intermediate DSpace: Metadata Imports and Exports [presentation](2016-12-21) McElfresh, Laura KaneItem Intermediate DSpace: Metadata Imports and Exports [video](2016-12-21) McElfresh, Laura KaneItem Introducing MAGPIE (Metadata Assignment GUI Providing Ingest and Export)(2015-05-26) Welling, William; Elmquist, Stephanie; Creel, James; Huff, Jeremy; Savell, Jason; Mathew, Rincy; Hahn, Doug; Bolton, Michael; Texas A&M UniversityThe Libraries at Texas A&M University have curated immense output from graduate programs for many decades. With the advent of the Vireo ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) submittal system, dissertations have been submitted in digital format and made available for download from TAMU’s OAKTrust institutional repository. However, many older dissertations are only discoverable through TAMU’s Voyager based online card catalog and are publicly available to visiting researchers in print format. A current digitization effort will make available these dissertations online at OAKTrust. The tool being developed for this purpose is designated MAGPIE (Metadata Assignment GUI Providing Ingest and Export). For the dissertation use case, librarians specified that the tool should display scanned PDF files and OCR (optical character recognition) text output from a file system. The tool then presents these data to annotators (typically, student workers) to augment and amend metadata. The presentation interface reads metadata, in this case MARC records, from TAMU’s Voyager card catalog database, thereby pre-populating important fields, such as the title and author name. However, a number of other fields, such as the abstract and names of committee members, do not exist in the card catalog but are available in the document itself. The annotator can simply copy and paste these character strings from the source document into a metadata input form specifically configured for the legacy dissertation digitization and preservation project. The MAGPIE workflow allows a manager to amend, reject, or approve these metadata entries, and to push approved documents into the OAKTrust repository with a single click. The MAGPIE tool has been developed using the Weaver framework, an open source web-development front-end and web service code-base from TAMU Libraries. The web service is built on top of Spring-boot, which is a popular framework with a large and growing community with documentation and support. The front-end of the web-stack consists of AngularJS and Bootstrap. The Weaver framework offers certain advantages, such as automatic updates of document status in the browser window without a page reload. The MAGPIE tool has also been developed with future projects in mind – the importation of content is modular and customizable, as is the metadata import service, the metadata form, and the export/push functionality. We anticipate that the MAGPIE tool will find use for metadata enhancement and automatic repository deposit of newspapers, images, and other institutional collections with or without existing metadata. In this talk, we will examine the initial use case of scanned legacy dissertations, provide some background on the MAGPIE software and its development, demonstrate the functionality of the tool, and conclude with an overview of future ambitions.Item Introducing Piper, a Repository-Agnostic Batch Deposit Tool(2014-03-13) Cooper, Micah; Creel, James; Hahn, Doug; Herbert, Bruce; Huff, Jeremy; Li, Yu "Lilly"; Maslov, Alexey; Potvin, Sarah; Texas A&M UniversityAbstract: Applications developers and librarians from the Texas A&M University Libraries will introduce Piper, a repository-agnostic content deposit tool. In addition to providing background on the impetus behind its creation and the intended/anticipated user base, we will demonstrate the tool and explain the process of its development. Impetus. Prior to Piper’s deployment, batch loads to our DSpace institutional repository were being handled primarily by one developer in the Digital Initiatives unit. DSpace affords various submission workflows for single-item submission, but batches of items must be loaded via the command line on the DSpace server. This server can be an extremely sensitive environment in large organizations whose business cases require backups, firewalls, and high uptime. As part of the workflow for batch loads, which came from diverse sources both inside and outside the Libraries, the developer had engineered procedures for metadata quality control prior to deposit. The developer frequently confronted batch loads with missing files or with incomplete or ill-formed metadata. Design and goals. The initial goal of Piper is to allow greater flexibility in our metadata workflow and enable a small group of non-technical staff to perform batch loads. The tool empowers staff with the privileges to assemble, check, and deposit batch loads through a graphical user interface. A central feature of Piper is its ability to validate metadata and files prior to deposit. The tool relies on a suite of automated and customizable verifiers to confirm that metadata are properly encoded and that files are correctly specified. In its first phase, Piper is designed to mimic the work of the developer who had previously performed this work, with procedures for validating metadata and files and the flexibility to upload multiple content files and specialized licenses as part of item records. Once Piper has been honed for use as a tool for this specialized group, we plan to expand its functionality and facilitate and promote its usage by the larger Texas A&M community, as part of ongoing efforts to populate our repository with open access publications. We have developed Piper in an iterative process whereby the customer chooses what features and fixes to be handled in a cycle (typically two weeks) and accepts or rejects the implementations after live testing and demonstration at the end of the cycle. These practices are informed by the Agile school of project management popular in software development and other technical industries. In this way we seek to minimize wasted development on unneeded features and enable continuous delivery of value to stakeholders.Item Introducing the Texas A&M University Libraries Digital Asset Management Ecosystem(2017-05) Creel, James; Bolton, Michael; Potvin, Sarah; Huff, Jeremy; Savell, Jason; Welling, William; Laddusaw, Ryan; Day, Kevin; Hahn, Douglas; Cooper, Micah; Stricklin, RobertAfter several years of planning and technical development across Texas A&M University departments, the University Libraries are excited to announce the deployment of the first round of production-level services and applications comprising our Digital Asset Management Ecosystem. In this presentation, we will give a grand tour of the existing services and discuss our next steps. Our approach has emphasized a service-oriented architecture with separation of concerns between components and standard protocols for information transfer. This has enabled us to integrate legacy components into the same workflows as new ones. In particular, our legacy DSpace instance, OAKTrust, participates on a par with a new Fedora repository, and both repositories can receive content from our ingestion tools and use that content to drive user-facing discovery and exhibition layers. Conduits for curation and ingestion of content include legacy workflows with DSpace SAF (Simple Archive Format), SWORD (Simple Webservice Offering Repository Deposit) from Vireo, and various command-line scripts. New, more user-friendly workflows use RESTful APIs through the MAGPIE (Metadata Assignment GUI Providing Ingest and Export) application that has been presented previously at TCDL. The MAGPIE application can bring in metadata from our Voyager catalog, CSV spreadsheets, DSpace SAF exports, and automated suggestions from controlled vocabularies. The content (PDF or image) and metadata are then displayed in the system for a human to edit and amend. Publication over REST APIs is currently available for DSpace, Fedora, and Archivematica. MAGPIE can also operate in a “headless” mode if no human curation is required. In “headless” mode ingested content is published immediately to the destination. Content available in our DSpace and Fedora IRs is of course exposed via the out-of-the-box interfaces these systems provide. For DSpace, these interfaces include the XMLUI, Solr, and an RDF webapp. For Fedora, these include Solr, Fuseki, and a robust messaging service. In addition, Fedora now offers a facility called API-X for proxying and modifying HTTP requests to Fedora in interesting customizable ways. One important development in this framework is the PCDM extension from Amherst College, which provides RDF metadata for PCDM-structured objects in your Fedora repository. We use this extension to drive a new IIIF manifest generator that generates Collection or Presentation manifests compatible with a variety of services, including Spotlight, Mirador and the Bodleian Libraries IIIF Manifest editor. In the future, we plan to enhance our IIIF manifest generator to utilize RDF responses from the DSpace RDF webapp in the same way it does from the Amherst PCDM Fedora extension. We will also continue to deploy new user-interfaces for discovery and exhibition. In this regard, we are pleased to have the flexibility to use custom in-house solutions or existing open-source projects, so long as they adhere to standards such as well-defined REST APIs, PCDM-RDF, and IIIF.Item Introducing Vireo: ETD Submittal and Management for DSpace(2009-07) Mikeal, Adam; Phillips, Scott; Leggett, John J.; McFarland, MarkThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of public and private institutions from across the state of Texas; a major project in TDL is the development of a state-wide repository for managing the entire life-cycle of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The Texas ETD Repository is a large effort that span multiple independent initiatives, all of which interact to support the overall task of managing ETDs in Texas. This presentation will describe Vireo, the customized submission and workflow management application that TDL developed for DSpace, and it's role within the Texas ETD Repository. We will describe its current implementation as a Manakin aspect and theme, and discuss the future plans for the application, including its release to the repository community under an open source license.
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