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“So Tell Me About Your Research”: Using Faculty Interviews To Build Research Partnerships, Eric Toole, Allison Martel, Alicia Hopkins, Mackenzie Dunn, Sheri Sochrin

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Data Management And The Ir: A Collaborative Approach, Josh Cromwell

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

As researchers seek to find ways to manage and openly share their data in compliance with grant requirements, many libraries have developed new services to support these researchers. In this session, we will discuss some of the different strategies that libraries are using to support data management, as well as the role that the IR may (or may not) play in these programs. While there is certainly not a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to library-led data initiatives, this conversation will allow participants to share ideas and workflows that will hopefully provide all attendees with new concepts to apply either …

I'M An Archivist Not A Digital Mastermind!: Tips And Tools For Archival Digitization, Michele Gibney, Gena Meroth

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

Archives are no longer closed departments, hoarding their treasures from the world. Archival staff have had to adapt and take advantage of new technologies to disseminate collections to broader audiences. We will showcase four digitized archival collections from Nova Southeastern University’s Archives:

1. A chronology using the third party app, TimelineJS
2. An Archives/graduate student collaboration of “Looking Into The Past” photos using geolocational information on Google Maps
3. A donated collection of underwater slide photography with digitization and taxonomic identification efforts by staff at the NSU Oceanographic Center Library
4. An Oral Histories project using Kaltura Video Platform

Potential learning outcomes for attendees: …

Preparing Your Digital Commons Metadata To Be Harvested Into The Oai: A Best Practice, Marielle Veve

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

The following presentation offer best practices and guidelines on how to prepare your Digital Commons’ descriptive metadata to be harvested and displayed into the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Attendants will learn how to: 1) customize a metadata upload form in Digital Commons to display specific metadata fields, 2) choose the most appropriate schema to display metadata for particular collections, and 3) map the metadata to the appropriate BePress proprietary schema elements that can display correctly into the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) for harvesting purposes.

Four Years Of Digital Initiatives: Defining Success Among Undergraduates, Anne A. Salter

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

A Journal of Undergraduate Research is an important and significant means of supporting student initiatives. From art work to honors thesis the range of possibilities are endless. What motivates students to submit their work; what defines success to a student who seeks publication. These themes will be discussed as well as examples of student success in publishing and examples of how being published helped them achieve graduate school initiatives.