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.
Maa & Mmdp: Fall Workshop 2016 With Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel
Nov 2016
Maa & Mmdp: Fall Workshop 2016 With Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel
Matt Schultz
In Summer 2016, GVSU Libraries was invited to submit a brief article for the Michigan Archival Association's Fall Open Entry newsletter on the background and impact of the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioner's community. The article provides that background and several details and outcomes of the most recent meetings.
Moving The Digital Curation Needle @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker
Nov 2016
Moving The Digital Curation Needle @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker
Matt Schultz
Grand Valley State University (GVSU) is a dynamically growing public liberal arts university located in Allendale, Michigan, United States. In 2012, GVSU Libraries became the recipient of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. The Libraries prides itself on innovation and taking risks to better serve its faculty and students and to improve its collections.
In step with that mission, beginning in early 2016 the Libraries began making strides to move beyond outsourcing its digital curation and to strengthen capacity and expertise for managing its own open source digital collections technologies.
This immediately involved making dramatic changes to a range …
Gvsu Repository Migration Update, Matt Schultz
Oct 2015
Gvsu Repository Migration Update, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
In late 2015, GVSU Libraries carried out a full-scale usability evaluation on their new digital preservation and access solution known as Preservica. The evaluation was geared primarily towards the access interface in order to ensure that GVSU faculty and students would have success in navigating the digital collections. In this presentation for the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners (MMDP) community, preliminary findings from the evaluations are shared.
The Smart Way To Manage Research Data, Craig Napier, Despina Clancy, Tim Davies, Katie Elcombe
Jun 2013
The Smart Way To Manage Research Data, Craig Napier, Despina Clancy, Tim Davies, Katie Elcombe
Craig Napier
The University of Wollongongs' $62 million SMART (Simulation, Modelling, Analysis, Research, Teaching) Infrastructure Facility will become a research and development powerhouse with an unprecedented level of impact within the broader infrastructure sector nationally and overseas [1]. With a vision to be a world class intellectual leader and educator in 'integrated' infrastructure planning and management and the capacity to host 200 PhD students, comprising 30 integrated research laboratories, data demands and volume are increasing exponetially.
