Digital Commons Network^™

Incorporating Etds In The Ir, One Department At A Time, Kristen Hoffman

Northwest IR User Group

How do you add student work to an IR when there is no centralized graduate school? At Seattle Pacific University, each department or school sets their own policy and has their own unique workflow, which has both challenges and benefits. Kristen worked with five individual departments to establish workflow solutions; consider if one of these options may work for you as you incorporate student work.

The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Migration Itself: Dspace To Hydra, What Could Go Wrong?, Steve Van Tuyl

Northwest IR User Group

Oregon State University (OSU) is in the process of migrating from Dspace to a Sufia/Hydra platform, but this move is not without challenges. Developer needs, timeline estimation, metadata cleanup and migration, and working closely with a distributed community of users and developers all present challenges. In this talk, I’ll address why we’re migrating, what benefits we’re expecting from the migration, and what challenges we’re experiencing.

Copyright Issues And Student Works In The Ir, Donald Taylor

Northwest IR User Group

Student works pose an interesting copyright challenge for IR managers due to the student's lack of understanding of differences between regular academic assignments/projects and works made available via the IR. Graduate students who have not yet published, and undergraduate students, often apply the same copyright rules they use on class assignments to works destined for the IR. Conversations between faculty and the IR manager can help avoid the student misapplication of fair use / fair dealing and infringements and provide suitable licenses. IR manager must also consider risk management and ensure that the institution respects the copyright of the student.

Supporting Activity And Assignment Design Through An Ir, Ryne Leuzinger

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will detail the development of an activities and assignments collection within Digital Commons @ CSUMB, the institutional repository at Cal State Monterey Bay. This collection provides access to exemplary assignments and activities so that they may be used by instructors across campus (and beyond) as a professional development resource. The talk will detail the genesis of the collection including how stakeholders from across campus came together to provide input on the collection’s scope and design. Additionally, the talk will provide information on how the collection has been promoted and how it has been aligned with institutional goals.

Making Collections, Making Connections: Using Ir Metrics To Guide Ir Promotion, Maurice R. Blackson, Sean Lind

Northwest IR User Group

I will share examples of how we present the data from bepress regarding use of our collections and downloads with examples from our ScholarWorks reports. I will include examples of the various ways we parse the data and display it for use by faculty and staff. By presenting the information in the easily understandable reports we can show scholars how easily we can share their work with a worldwide audience.

Examples of our ScholarWorks reports can be found here.

The New Selectedworks, And What's Next, Irene Kamotsky

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will offer a quick overview of bepress's new SelectedWorks system for faculty profile pages, with a focus on new tools that make it easier for libraries to collaborate with faculty on their profiles. Then we'll take a sneak peek at two major enhancements in the works for SelectedWorks: an expert finder and faculty reporting.

Arca: British Columbia's Collaborative Digital Repository Network, Brandon J. Weigel

Northwest IR User Group

A quick overview of Arca, a consortially-operated multisite Islandora repository with 12 member sites (and growing). The talk outlines how a consortial repository works, including governance, consortial planning and management, challenges of meeting the needs of multiple very different kinds of members, our relationship with our vendor, and how much it costs (and how costs are shared). It will also touch on challenges related to storage, including restricted options due to Canadian privacy legislation.

See the repositories as they grow at http://arcabc.ca.

Adding Digital Inventory To Alma, The Easy Way, Kyle Banerjee

Northwest IR User Group

Alma offers powerful digital inventory capabilities, but the interface is clunky bulk imports of large files -- particularly when multiple representations and complex permissions are involved.

Alma's rich API is a powerful tool for inventory management, but it's difficult for nonprogrammers to use. This session demonstrates a method to securely import thousands of large files and associated metadata in a single file copy operation.

Yours, Mine, And Ours: Leveraging Individual And Community Metrics To Measure Success, Morgan Ziontz, Nancy Kerr

Northwest IR User Group

How do you know when your repository initiative is successful? Over the course of this session, Morgan Ziontz, Senior Outreach Associate at bepress, will highlight some of the tools and initiatives available to help the community measure and share the success of their goals, including repository benchmarking and the new administrator dashboard. Morgan will also discuss how your benchmarking numbers and data from your dashboard can be used to gauge your progress over time.

Celebrating Publication And Authorship At Pacific University, Johanna Meetz

Northwest IR User Group

Every year the Pacific University Library plans Celebrations on two of its campuses to honor all faculty, staff, and students who have published anything, like a book, book chapter, or article, in the past calendar year. The goal of the Pacific Authors Celebration is to acknowledge the published scholarly successes of those affiliated with Pacific and to create awareness of Common Knowledge (Pacific’s IR) as well as the newly-founded Pacific University Press. This year marked the 17^th anniversary of the Celebration, which traditionally includes a campus-wide gathering where food/drinks are served, people are invited to give brief lightning talks …

Using Citation Collection To Encourage Ir Deposits: The Celebration Point Method, Leila Belle Sterman

Northwest IR User Group

At Montana State University – as at many institutions– we spend a great deal of time counting research in dollars. What we did not spend much time doing was tracking and celebrating the research itself. Last year, in order to better understand our University’s research, the library began to collect research publication citation data. This data is used to publicly congratulate our researchers to promote a culture that values publications (in addition to grant moneys) and for gaining institutional repository submissions. The data has also proved useful for accreditation, outreach, and encouraging data sharing.

Once we discovered that no one …

Birds Of A Feather, Northwest Ir User Group

Northwest IR User Group

Attendees examined the following topics: Copyright, Marketing, Journal Publishing, Preservation, Student Research, and Workflow. The outcome from each table discussion were shared with the group at the end of the session.

Introducing Undergraduates To Research Datasets, Bill G. Kelm, John Repplinger

Northwest IR User Group

This spring semester at Willamette University we had our first course on campus integrate research dataset deposits in an Environmental Science senior thesis class. To help with this process, the library worked with the faculty member to create a metadata template for a README file, provided instructions to the students on how to fill out the README file, and then created a customized submission process for the new collection in our Academic Commons (DSpace institutional repository) specifically for Student Research Datasets.

In our session we will go over, the creation of the template file and instructions, the creation of the …

Institutional Repositories And Research Development - Capitalizing On Points Of Intersection, Michelle Armstrong

Northwest IR User Group

Many institutional repositories (IRs) have assumed responsibility for capturing information about their university’s scholarly outputs. Publications, presentations, curriculum resources, research data, and multimedia materials are ingested as part of the institution’s research profile. Although great progress has been made to establish repositories as core parts of the research environment on many university campuses, IRs are often not utilized in the research development and grant proposal processes. Collaborating on research dissemination plans, assisting in data management, maintaining researcher profiles, and assisting in developing biosketches are all potential partnership opportunities for repository and research development staff. Yet, these groups usually do not …

The User-Centered Repository: Foundational Conversations And Services, Maija Anderson, Kyle Banerjee, David Forero, Kate Thornhill

Northwest IR User Group

Launching a successful digital repository takes more than selecting the right software and hiring the right staff. How do libraries know that they’re developing repository services that their users want? How do you lobby administration for the funding and staff needed for a new program? How do you ensure a digital initiative's success? OHSU Library’s DAM/IR Task Force share their experiences developing relationships, getting administrative support, and implementing a marketing and communications digital assets management system, which is now in the implementation phase.

From the beginning of this process, the library took the opposite of the "If we build they …

Getting Out Of The Ir Comfort Zone: Vivo As An Institutional Repository, Annie M. Gaines

Northwest IR User Group

In 2012, the University of Idaho Library began implementing VIVO, an open-source Semantic Web application, both as a database to describe, visualize, and report university research activity as well as a discovery layer for its fledgling institutional repository.

Since VIVO was not designed to be used as an institutional repository, the University of Idaho Library has encountered unique difficulties, challenges, and opportunities. This talk will detail some of those challenges, discuss tools and techniques, and encourage others to take the untrodden path.

http://vivo.nkn.uidaho.edu/vivo/

Nwirug Welcome, Isaac P. Gilman

Northwest IR User Group

Conference opening remarks