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Avoiding The Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz
Avoiding The Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
Personal content creation, collection, curation, and sharing are advancing into a new paradigm highly dependent on corporately controlled online platforms. Creators and cultural memory organizations are grappling with questions of ownership, control, and at-will sharing. This chapter explores curatorial strategies, advocacy efforts and grassroots initiatives that can serve as solutions.
Avoiding A Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz
Avoiding A Gambit For Our Personal Digital Archives, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
Personal content creation, collection, curation, and sharing are advancing into a new paradigm highly dependent on corporately controlled online platforms. Creators and cultural memory organizations are grappling with questions of ownership, control, and at-will sharing. This presentation explores curatorial strategies, advocacy efforts and grassroots initiatives that can serve as solutions.
Building A Data “Deep State” @Gvsu, Matt Schultz
Building A Data “Deep State” @Gvsu, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
GVSU Libraries is advancing an agenda to evolve its data management support from that of ad-hoc faculty consultations to enacting a suite of new collaborative and dependable library services. This presentation will share details and lessons-learned from experimentations that range from liaison training to repository software developments.
Divergent Digital Collections Development & Design, Matt Schultz
Divergent Digital Collections Development & Design, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
In Fall 2017, GVSU Libraries kicked off a multi-phase change management process to re-envision its work in the area of digital collections. Under the guidance of the new Dean of Libraries, Annie Bélanger, the faculty and staff assigned to digital projects carried out appreciative inquiry and divergent thinking facilitation sessions. In this presentation, Matt Schultz (Metadata & Digital Curation Librarian) and Annie Benefiel (Archivist for Collection Management) share details and outcomes from these sessions.
Web Archiving At Gvsu, Annie Benefiel, Matt Schultz
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
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
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
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 …
The Legacy Computer Challenge, Matt Schultz
The Legacy Computer Challenge, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
In late 2016, the Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) at GVSU LIbraries were approached by a faculty member with a request to help retrieve a series of important emails, journals, and film production notes that were stored electronically on two very old (legacy) Macintosh computers. This presentation was used to provide the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners community with an overview of the materials and the use case being presented. Attention was drawn to the challenges of connecting and retrieving data from obsolete computer technology and feedback was solicited for strategies and best practices to follow.
Beyond The University: Preserving The Personal @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel
Beyond The University: Preserving The Personal @Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Annie Benefiel
Matt Schultz
Grand Valley State University’s Special Collections and University Archives proactively seeks to expand capacity to curate the complex born-digital materials originating from our faculty, students and student groups. This presentation will highlight three exemplary case studies--The Young Lords of Lincoln Park, the Fei Hu Films records, and The Humans of Grand Valley Project--each of which are collections at GVSU that exemplify our exciting forays into programmatically archiving the personal.
More than simply accessioning institutional records, these collections represent the University’s efforts to preserve and promote the distinctive personalities and creative outputs of their donors, as well …
Joining The Table: Advancing Digital Discussions At Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker
Joining The Table: Advancing Digital Discussions At Gvsu, Matt Schultz, Kyle Felker
Matt Schultz
The digital curation and technology faculty/staff of GVSU Libraries began 2016 with a number of digital initiatives that engaged the Libraries with faculty and departments across the University. This presentation highlights these initiatives for the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners (MMDP) community. Specific initiatives covered include the new Digital Studies Minor, digital humanities projects, efforts to launch an electronic records management program, and many others.
Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz
Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz
Matt Schultz
The 2015 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium was the inaugural launch of this now widely-attended un-conference series. Attendees were encouraged to submit lightning presentations on local developments in the area of data management support from within their Libraries. This brief presentation highlighted early work undertaken to develop a checklist that my role as Metadata & Digital Curation could make use of to navigate faculty researcher questions that arise when considering where to store and maintain research data during active stages of any given sponsored research project.
Gvsu Repository Migration Update, Matt Schultz
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.