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New, New, New: Uab’S New Repository On A New Platform With A New Librarian, Amy Reese
New, New, New: Uab’S New Repository On A New Platform With A New Librarian, Amy Reese
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is launching a new open access repository using the Digital Commons platform. I was hired to make this happen. Starting with nothing, my first question was, so now what? I will discuss the challenges faced with having zero institutional knowledge and having a skill set grown under a very different focus. More generally, I will discuss why repositories are important, especially in an age where everyone Googles first. I would like to explore the lie of ubiquitous information, and the role libraries should be playing in promoting unique local content.
A Community Repository: An Update On The British Library And Ubiquity Press Hyku Project, Chealsye Bowley
A Community Repository: An Update On The British Library And Ubiquity Press Hyku Project, Chealsye Bowley
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
Hyku is a highly promising open source option for both large and small institutions. Ubiquity Press and the British Library have been working together for the past year with the rest of the Hyku community to bring the platform to a level that can be embraced by a variety of institutions with differing needs. The British Library has piloted the platform as a hosted service to other memory institutions, and Ubiquity has focused on integrating Hyku with its open source journal, book and conference publishing systems. This presentation will describe the work done on this collaborative project and discuss the …
A Native Ipad App For Dspace 7, Keith Gilbertson
A Native Ipad App For Dspace 7, Keith Gilbertson
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
The developers of the upcoming version of DSpace 7, in the process of creating an updated and unified DSpace interface, have also updated the REST API for completeness. This redesigned API opens many opportunities for future institutional repository integrations. One such integration is a native iPad (and also iPhone) app that will allow repository browsers and administrators to interact with DSpace 7. In this non-technical lightning talk, I will demonstrate the app, and explain the differences in interacting with DSpace from a native mobile app versus a website that has been designed to adapt to the screen size of mobile …
Too Many Options: Choosing An Open Source Ir Platform, David Wilcox
Too Many Options: Choosing An Open Source Ir Platform, David Wilcox
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
Selecting and implementing an open source institutional repository platform can be challenging. Should you build your own or adopt an existing product? What options are out there, and how do they compare? What are the resource requirements for installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance? These questions are important but not always easily answered. This presentation will offer answers to these and other questions by using Fedora and DSpace as examples of open technologies that support different use cases, require different resource commitments, and provide different opportunities for configuration and customization. Both of these projects are stewarded by DuraSpace, a not-for-profit that …
Safe Passage: Opportunities For Growth During Ir Migration, Jenny Tolbert
Safe Passage: Opportunities For Growth During Ir Migration, Jenny Tolbert
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
Migration offers an opportunity to re-evaluate the IR's place within institutional, administrative, faculty, and student targets. Throughout our migration from dspace to bepress, our Digital Archive team was challenged to design a repository that meets the fluid needs of our current and future users. While the original repository instance succeeded in preserving and offering access to university scholarship and history, our future repository also needed greater visual and social capabilities. Our hope is that the new IR will mirror, showcase, and advance institutional efforts. Thus, this poster will provide an overview of migration in the light of policy evaluation and …
Surveying The Landscape: Hosted, Open Source, Or Undecided, Josh Cromwell
Surveying The Landscape: Hosted, Open Source, Or Undecided, Josh Cromwell
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
During this session, we will learn from attendees about their current or future plans regarding their IR. We will also examine what role the Elsevier acquisition of bepress has played into any decisions to migrate (either to or from that platform) or stay, and will hear ideas from all groups, including those who may be at institutions that do not yet have an IR, about what they would like to see from all IR platforms moving forward.
Citations Only In Your Ir: The End Of The Ir As We Know It Or The Shape Of Things To Come?, Jim Cunningham, Joe Zumalt
Citations Only In Your Ir: The End Of The Ir As We Know It Or The Shape Of Things To Come?, Jim Cunningham, Joe Zumalt
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
Institutional Repositories were conceived to collect and disseminate the intellectual output of the organizations that sponsor them. That output is full content of some form—text, graphics, multimedia, datasets, and more. As IRs have evolved, however, the possibility of quickly and easily populating it with just citations without the actual content has gained attention. The choice of requiring full content or allowing citation only is a question not without controversy. This presentation will examine the issues involved with both ideas and discuss advantages and disadvantages of each.
Identifying Policy Trends: Institutional Repository Policy Survey Results, Christy Shorey
Identifying Policy Trends: Institutional Repository Policy Survey Results, Christy Shorey
Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference
In 2016, the IR Manager at the University of Florida undertook a project to review existing policies of the IR@UF and complete an environmental scan of peer institutions to determine best practices in terms of IR Policies. Building on last year’s presentation which highlighted preliminary results of the 25-institution pilot survey (http://aquila.usm.edu/irday/2016/1/11/), this poster looks at the final results of the Institutional Repository Policy Survey. With over 95 respondents, the survey results identify trends in four core policy areas which may suggest best practices for those who are seeking to build an IR, or to conduct their own …