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Avoiding The Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz Nov 2017

Avoiding The Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

Personal content creation, collection, curation, and sharing are advancing into a new paradigm highly dependent on corporately controlled online platforms. Creators and cultural memory organizations are grappling with questions of ownership, control, and at-will sharing. This chapter explores curatorial strategies, advocacy efforts and grassroots initiatives that can serve as solutions.


Avoiding A Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz Oct 2017

Avoiding A Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

Personal content creation, collection, curation, and sharing are advancing into a new paradigm highly dependent on corporately controlled online platforms. Creators and cultural memory organizations are grappling with questions of ownership, control, and at-will sharing. This presentation explores curatorial strategies, advocacy efforts and grassroots initiatives that can serve as solutions.


Building A Data “Deep State” @Gvsu, Matt Schultz Oct 2017

Building A Data “Deep State” @Gvsu, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

GVSU Libraries is advancing an agenda to evolve its data management support from that of ad-hoc faculty consultations to enacting a suite of new collaborative and dependable library services. This presentation will share details and lessons-learned from experimentations that range from liaison training to repository software developments.


Divergent Digital Collections Development & Design, Matt Schultz Oct 2017

Divergent Digital Collections Development & Design, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

In Fall 2017, GVSU Libraries kicked off a multi-phase change management process to re-envision its work in the area of digital collections. Under the guidance of the new Dean of Libraries, Annie Bélanger, the faculty and staff assigned to digital projects carried out appreciative inquiry and divergent thinking facilitation sessions. In this presentation, Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) and Annie Benefiel (Archivist for Collection Management) share details and outcomes from these sessions.


Web Archiving At Gvsu, Annie Benefiel, Matt Schultz Oct 2017

Web Archiving At Gvsu, Annie Benefiel, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

In 2017, GVSU Libraries began a web archiving initiative to capture our public-facing administrative, academic, arts, university publications and other websites and documents. In this presentation, Annie Benefiel (Archivist for Collection Management) and Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) described the policy development process, the use of Archive-It as the web archiving solution, and the internal workflows followed to accomplish this important activity of capturing GVSU's institutional record.


Access Update For Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker Oct 2017

Access Update For Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker

Matt Schultz

By Fall 2016, GVSU Libraries began making a major strategic and technology shift toward the use of open source technologies versus commercial vendor solutions for digital preservation and access. In this presentation to the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners (MMDP) community, Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) and Kyle Felker (Digital Initiatives Librarian) provide updates on these new directions.