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2017 Convocation Program And Video, Portland State University

Convocation

Convocation program and video of the event.

The video is available online: https://youtu.be/e7CbvYThpWE

Registering With Share, Talea Anderson

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will describe recent activity surrounding SHARE—an open dataset supported by the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Open Science. SHARE is working to aggregate metadata found in institutional and disciplinary repositories in order to improve discovery and access to scholarly research. This presentation will cover how to register a repository with SHARE, and will summarize projects recently undertaken as part of the SHARE Curation Associates program of 2016-2017.

The Dream Of Harvesting Is Alive In Portland: Harvesting Through Digital Commons, Ann Connolly

Northwest IR User Group

This summer bepress began its first foray into the world of harvesting content. We have access to more than 160 million objects from sources including PubMed, Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, Springer, IEEE, ArXiv, SSRN, RePEc, JSTOR, and many others. In early June we embarked on a pilot with several schools to harvest metadata for new faculty profiles within the Expert Gallery Suite, with plans to expand the scope of the feature over the coming year.

This talk will cover:

• A demonstration of the harvesting feature
• What we've learned from the pilot
• Plans for release and future improvements

Easier Author Identification, Joe Cera

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk would discuss our efforts to make it easier to identify authors and retrieve a full list of works in the repository. We rely on existing identifiers and standards resulting in no added costs and no new identifier systems. We are currently adding ISNI, VIAF, Library of Congress, and Institutional identifiers for each faculty member (where available). We have also added an indexed field in our Digital Commons instance to allow searching by those identifiers. The system can easily accommodate new identifiers and allows filtering that is not normally available in the Digital Commons search methods.

Integrating Docusign Into The Permissions Workflow, Amy D. Coughenour

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will review the process of integrating the use of DocuSign for electronic signatures into the overall permissions workflow for institutional repositories. Subtopics include creating and using templates, routing to collection administrators and program managers, adjusting settings, prefilling forms, and processing the completed forms for the IR. Using an electronic process for permission forms saves time while increasing communication with creators and stakeholders.

Copyright, Sue Kunda

Northwest IR User Group

The IR: What’s Copyright Got To Do With It?

SHERPA/RoMEO provides IR managers with publishers’ copyright information, making the deposit of faculty research articles fairly straightforward. But what about all the other materials we’re now putting in the IR? Things like:

• Books and book chapters
• ETDs that include others’ copyrighted materials
• Undergraduate research
• Conference posters and presentations
• Archival materials
• Oral histories
• Digitized university collections

IR managers now need to understand the copyright issues surrounding a wide variety of materials and need to make well-reasoned decisions regarding their deposit into the IR. During this table talk, we’ll discuss copyright as it …

Data Repositories, David Isaak

Northwest IR User Group

Data Repositories: What is the purpose of a data repository? How do you guide faculty to the best place to store their datasets? Discussion of the differences between institutional, disciplinary, and general data repositories. How do you locate disciplinary and general data repositories? How should a data repository interact with a traditional IR? Possible activity: uploading and describing a sample dataset to the Demo Dataverse (https://demo.dataverse.org).

Digital Public Library Of America (Dpla) & Metadata, Anneliese Dehner

Northwest IR User Group

More Metadata: How do you evaluate the quality of your metadata? How do you determine where to put your energies when approaching a metadata cleanup project? What's in your metadata toolset and what's the best tool for the job? When is it a good idea to normalize your metadata to controlled vocabularies, and does your IR even allow this kind of normalization? Discussion of the nuts and bolts of metadata cleanup, and how to do it with limited staff time. Possible activity: uploading a sample dataset to OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/), evaluating the set against the requirements of the Alliance …

Using The Ir Beyond Face Value, Jenny K. Oleen, Kim Marsicek

Northwest IR User Group

An institutional repository can be more than just a place to store theses or host faculty articles. An I.R. can also allow the library to collaborate with campus units to solve problems. By using a holistic approach to the I.R., libraries can go beyond the basics to support the communication needs of the university and local community. This presentation will illustrate how Western Libraries, at Western Washington University, used the implementation of Western CEDAR, Western’s institutional repository, to provide needed help in a variety of areas.

We will demonstrate how:

• Conference pages can be used to solicited information and volunteers …

The Ir, Web, And Marketing Departments: The Ultimate Triumvirate, Tina Ching

Northwest IR User Group

The IR is a great platform to complement the work of the web and marketing teams. In most institutions, however, instead of creating a natural alliance, these departments tend to conflict with competing priorities. What would happen if these three departments fell under one roof? This is the scenario at Seattle University School of Law where the IR, web, and marketing staff are a part of the small, but mighty Marketing & Communications team.

In this presentation, we will take a look at some of the ways an IR can be integrated into an institution's website while fulfilling the goals …

Hyrax, Hyku, Hywhat? Update On The Hydra-In-A-Box Repository Project And Demo Of A Live Application, Steve Van Tuyl, Mike Giarlo

Northwest IR User Group

In this presentation, we will give an update on the Hydra-in-a-Box project, introduce attendees to the features of the HyBox repository product (Hyku) and offer a live demo of the Oregon State University Institutional Repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU, recently migrated from DSpace to the Hydra application, Hyrax.

Using A Needs Assessment To Develop An Institutional Repository, Teresa Auch Schultz

Northwest IR User Group

Needs assessments can help librarians gain a better understanding of the scholarly communication practices and opinions of faculty within their communities, but they can also provide additional benefits. In the fall of 2016, two librarians at an R2 institution that had just started a scholarly communications program led a qualitative study of 18 faculty members at their institution in which liaison librarians conducted interviews with faculty in their departments. Although the main intent of the assessment was to better learn faculty views and opinions on scholarly communications-related issues such as open access, the librarians also used the study for several …

Exploring A Hybrid Model To Develop The Ir: Liaisons And Functional Specialists Collaborate To Engage And Support Scholarship, Jane Costanza, Benjamin R. Harris

Northwest IR User Group

Smaller institutions may not have full-time dedicated positions to provide technical support and campus engagement for their IR, therefore alternative strategies to grow a program supporting institutional scholarship may be necessary. For example, at Trinity University we do not have a Scholarly Communication Librarian or a dedicated IR Manager, but instead, depend on the collaboration of liaisons and technical services staff to engage and support institutional scholarship.

At Trinity, our low librarian-to-faculty ratio means that we have strong liaison relationships with our academic departments. While librarians at Trinity locate and create opportunities to communicate with students and teachers about digital …

From Pilot Project To Three Fte: Ubc's Decentralized Repository Staffing Model, Tara Stephens-Kyte

Northwest IR User Group

In 2011, cIRcle, the University of British Columbia’s open access digital repository, formally accepted a decentralized repository staffing model following a full day planning retreat with key Library stakeholders. Six years later staff has grown to include two FTE Digital Repository Librarians, one FTE support staff, as well as secured metadata review commitments from a Librarian and two cataloguers in Technical Services in addition to regular deposit support from student employees. With increased capacity has come robust and well-documented metadata standards that support interoperability; automated content ingest streams; improved permissions review support to meet growth in faculty requests; streamlined …

Participation Is Not A Panacea, Britta Ricker

Resistance GIS

Britta Ricker is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies program at the University Washington Tacoma. Ricker teaches a wide variety of courses related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Science and Urban Research Methods. Her research interests convergence around spatial information collection and dissemination opportunities afforded by mobile computers. She is interested in applying these tools for spatial learning related to emergency preparedness and environmental communication initiatives. Her professional experience includes acting as a Hazard Mapping Analyst for Dewberry and Davis, a consultant for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). She has also acted as a cartographic consultation for …

Gis As A Tool For Neighborhood, Adam Brunelle

Resistance GIS

Adam Brunelle is a community organizer and advocacy planner with experience incubating communityprojects and programs at the grassroots level, including his work on climate change as a co-founder of nonprofit 350PDX and more recently engage Portland’s Lents community on livability issues through local nonprofit Green Lents. Brunelle is committed to bottom-up change and community-led advocacy, focusing his work on improving livability, preserving affordability, and fostering community control in the Lents area. He received his Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University in 2016, and was awarded the Excellence in Sustainability: Inspiring Student Award in 2016 by the …

Ground-Truthing: Geographic Information Systems (Gis) As Community-Based And Anti-Racist Praxis, Verónica N. Vélez

Resistance GIS

Dr. Verónica Nelly Vélez is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Education and Social Justice Minor at Western Washington University (WWU). Before joining WWU, Verónica worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and the Director of Public Programming at the Center for Latino Policy Research at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Theory in Education, the politics of parent engagement in educational reform, particularly for Latina/o (im)migrant families, participatory action and community-based models of research, and the use of GIS technologies to further a critical race research agenda on the study of space …

Spatial Narratives In A Post-Truth World, Dillon Mahmoudi

Resistance GIS

Dillon Mahmoudi will graduate in June 2017 with a PhD in Urban Studies
at Portland State University. He also received his Graduate Certificate in GIS from the Geography department. In the fall of 2017, he will be moving to Baltimore to be Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where he will teach courses in advanced GIS methods and economic geography. His research and community engagement focuses on critical methods for GIS, bifurcation and deskilling in tech work (software and cartography), geographies of urban inequity, and the intersections of cities and digital technologies.

Resistance (?) Gis (?), Jim Thatcher

Resistance GIS

Jim Thatcher is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. His research examines relationships between extremely large geospatial data sets and the creation and analysis of those data sets and society, with a focus on how data has come to mediate, saturate, and sustain modern urban environments. Often referred to as Critical Data Studies or Digital Political Ecologies, Jim’s work has been featured in media outlets including NPR and The Atlantic. His first edited volume, Thinking Big Data In Geography: New Regimes, New Research, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press.

Federal Data: Strategies For Maintaining Access And Availability, Elizabeth F. Pickard

Resistance GIS

Beth Pickard is a librarian and assistant professor at Portland State University where she works with geographers and other scientists. She earned her BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and her MSI in Information Science from the University of Michigan. In addition to her work in academia, she writes poetry, fiction and other genre-resistant pieces. Her work has appeared in Underwater New York, the Portland Review and elsewhere.

Before coming to PSU, Beth served as Interim Engineering Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as University Library Associate at the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library …

In Support Of “Difficult Data”, Jamaal Green

Resistance GIS

Jamaal Green is a doctoral candidate in the Urban Studies and Planning Department at PSU. He is an economic development planners, and a sometimes economic geographer, interested in the intersections of land-use and labor market outcomes. Specifically, his dissertation will be studying the conversion of industrial land to non-industrial uses in the country’s fifty largest cities and the politics therein. He cares passionately about the potential for planning to be a progressive force in the development of our cities. He uses GIS as a way to explore questions about the socio-spatial and socio-economic relations of city-regions from the locations of …

Introductory Statement By The Organizers, Resistance Gis Conference

Resistance GIS

Introductory statement by the organizers of the Resistance GIS 2017 Conference, entitled "From our Perspective: What is Resistance GIS?"

Would You Like Fires With That? Using Stakeholder-Derived Forest Management Preference Maps To Model Landscape-Level Fuel Reduction Treatment Effects On Wildfire Spread, Brooke A. Cassell, Robert M. Scheller, Max Nielsen-Pincus

ESM Colloquium

Management of public lands in the U.S. aims to achieve multiple goals relating to ecological function, wildlife habitat, support of local economies, and recreation; and in fire-prone landscapes these goals are often combined with fuels reduction treatments such as forest thinning and prescribed fire. Applied landscape research may attempt to evaluate the tradeoffs implicit in public lands planning or envision potential future land management scenarios, but often fails to incorporate the spatial diversity of stakeholder perspectives. This study explores the use of public participation geographic systems (PPGIS) to identify spatial and thematic community preferences for fuel treatments in a fire-prone …

Non-Native Mangroves Of Moloka’I, Hawai’I: A Socio-Ecological Analysis, Casey Lewis

ESM Colloquium

Invasive species are recognized as a leading threat to biodiversity and their management is expensive, time consuming, and labor intensive. Therefore, it is important to review both benefits and detriments of the species to inform appropriate management decisions. Red mangrove was introduced to Moloka'i, Hawaii in 1902 to mitigate the effects of soil erosion and has since spread along the coast and to adjacent islands creating novel habitat. This study assessed both biological services and social attitudes towards Moloka'i's non-native mangroves to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the species. Zooplankton community structure was examined in mangrove and non-mangrove sites and …

Modeling The Effectiveness Of Riparian Restoration On Stream Shading In The Clackamas River Basin, Rachel Barksdale

ESM Colloquium

Rivers and streams within the Clackamas River Basin are not currently meeting water quality standards in terms of temperature. The Clackamas River Basin Council (CRBC) designed a restoration program to address the thermal loading on behalf of Portland General Electric (PGE) in which native trees and shrubs are planted along streams to restore riparian canopy cover. Solar radiation can be blocked by restoring canopy cover and is an effective way to provide shade, as well as providing ancillary environmental benefits such as enhanced wildlife habitat and erosion control. Stream and vegetation data were collected at nine sites to model the …

Effects Of Beaver Dams On Surface Water Flow During Storm Events In An Urban Landscape, Erin Poor

ESM Colloquium

Urban land-use generally alters the hydrologic cycle, leading to changes in the natural flow regime of local streams. Runoff from impervious surfaces and routing of stormwater to streams causes urban streams to respond quickly and more intensely to storm events-more so than then would be observed in a less urbanized landscape. The rapid pulse of water that is routed to streams during precipitation events can degrade the physical structure of the channel and alter water quality and habitat availability. To manage these common urban stream issues, agencies have been seeking alternative ways of restoring and enhancing resilience in urban stream …

Long-Term Ecological Research In Forest Park: Tracking Urban Impacts To Forest Structure And Productivity, Andrew Addessi, Marion Dresner

ESM Colloquium

Current and historic land use practices as well as exposure to an urban environment can impact forest structure and function. Past and ongoing research in Forest Park, a large urban forest in Portland, Oregon, suggests that mature Douglas-fir (Psuedotsuga meziesii) dominated conifer stands in the more urban end of the park are not developing certain late successional features. Notably, they lack a shade-tolerant conifer understory composed of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) and western red-cedar (Thuja plicata). Here, I present three lines of investigation taken from several 1-hectare permanent long-term ecological research (LTER) plots in Forest Park. First, I investigated whether …

Community Science And The Ecological Merits Of Backyard Habitat Patches And Adjacent Green-Spaces For Urban Avian Species, Kristen S. Gulick, Nikkie West, Marion Dresner

ESM Colloquium

In what ways do small-scale urban backyards contribute to local bird abundance and biodiversity? In what ways might these yards serve as an ‘extension’ of neighboring native forest areas? This project investigates the contribution that a group of backyards, certified through the Backyard Habitat Certification Program, have in the suburb of Hillsdale, Oregon, which is adjacent to the natural area of Keller Woodland. Backyard owners functioning as citizen or community scientists assisted with conducting residential bird point-counts once a week in each backyard and the natural area. Counts were done for a total of 8 weeks during nesting season to …

The Limitation Of Spread Of Non-Native Marine Invertebrates From Artificial Structures To Natural Habitats, Whitney Mcclees, Catherine E. De Rivera

ESM Colloquium

Artificial structures created for aquatic anthropogenic activities are often colonized and fouled by many non-native species, few of which have invaded natural areas. Some research has indicated predation is limiting the spread of non-native species, while other research has indicated that it is dispersal-driven. To determine the effects of dispersal limitation and predation on the risk to surrounding habitats of being invaded by non-native species established on marina docks, we used a three-factor design, deploying seven unglazed ceramic panels per each treatment combination of 1) inside versus outside a marina in Yaquina Bay, Oregon; 2) cage keeping out predators >mesh …

Informing Oregon's Marine Protected Area (Mpa) Baseline: Past And Present Tribal Uses Of Marine Resources, Sabra Marie Tallchief Comet

ESM Colloquium

Native American tribes with ancestral land adjacent to the coast have gathered, hunted, and fished marine resources for millennia. In 2012, the state of Oregon designated five marine sites as reserves in which ocean development and harvest were prohibited. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are paired with each of the reserves and have less stringent “take” restrictions. Conflict over tribal use of MPAs have arisen in other states (e.g., California) as designation of MPAs and Reserves can impact subsistence, ceremonial, and traditional uses. My master’s thesis is intended to inform Oregon MPA management by developing a dataset that will describe tribal …