1.22.15 slides: “doing it: real life experiences with hosted institutional /digital repository...
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January 22, 2015 Hot Topics: DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series Eight: “Doing It: How Non-ARL Institutions
are Managing Digital Collections ”
Curated by Liz Bishoff, Partner, The Bishoff Group LLC
“Real Life Experiences with Hosted
Institutional / Digital Repository Services”
Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian & Associate Professor, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University
Carissa Smith, Product Manager, DSpaceDirect & DuraCloud, DuraSpace
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Oceana Wilson, Director of Library and Information Services, Crossett Library, Bennington College
In Review
“Managing Digital Collections” Survey Conducted by the Bishoff Group and DuraSpace in the early 2014
Goal Gain a better understanding of the status of digital content creation, management, and preservation activities underway in the non-ARL academic library community
Responses 145 from non-ARL organizations (such as ACRL list members, Oberlin Group, etc.)
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Respondents
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Trends Toward Hosted
What we found 73 respondents (71.6%) use hosted service offered by a vendor or consortia 29 respondents (28.4%) are locally managed
Decision factors Type of content being managed (requirements, restrictions) User functionality Technical philosophy (move to hosted) Technical and customer support Preservation functionality Cost
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Digital Commons @ IWU: Share, Discover, Illuminate
STEPHANIE DAVIS-KAHL, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 01.22.15
Beginnings [2007]
• Strategic Plan • Campus Identity Study • Digital Collections • Timing
Image: Standing on the starting line, Olympia,
Greece (2006), by Templar1307, (CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0)
https://flic.kr/p/2pAdvo
focus on student
work
people
timing
Stakeholders: University Librarian, Associate
Provost, Chief Information Officer, Library Advisory Committee,
Teaching & Learning with Technology Committee
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Building Blocks
• Infrastructure • Services
• Teaching, Outreach
• Campus Culture
Values, People,
Curriculum
Active Learning OA/PA
Advocacy
Personnel Workflow Metadata
Faculty Work Student Work Records Mgmt Copyright Ed
Publishing
Digital Commons @ IWU
Digital Commons @ Illinois Wesleyan University (DC@IWU) reflects the nature of the intellectual, creative and scholarly culture of our campus. DC@IWU serves as the central location for outstanding student work, faculty scholarship, University records, and campus history. Our goals are to: • Promote and disseminate academic and creative
achievements of students and faculty • Ensure preservation of and persistent access to said
work • Increase discovery of IWU scholarship and artistic
expressions • Foster scholarly collaborations with colleagues • Document and record IWU’s history and progress
Image: Digital Commons @ IWU homepage http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu
Faculty Work and Beyond
Community Engagement
Faculty Governance
Information Literacy
Instruction
University Communication&
Advancement
Admissions, Alumni Relations
Archives & Special
Collections
Digital Commons
@ IWU
Student Scholarly & Creative Work
Campus Connections
Capstone Publishing Experience: Undergraduate Economic Review
Major Coursework Information Literacy
Writing in the Discipline Critical Peer Review
Open Access Publishing
http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer
Roles & Responsibilities
• Editors • Reviewers • Authors • Readers
Students
• Educator • Mentors • Advisors
Faculty • Educator • Advisor • Infrastructure
Librarian
http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer
John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc
Art Presentations http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2014/art/
Music Performances http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2014/music/
Jane Austen Book Covers, Jamie Kang (2011)
Fast Monsters, Victoria Poll (2011)
Honors Projects
Faculty Work: Post-prints, images, video/audio, links to blogs, journals, student work Viewing Device, Nisa Blackmon
Reframing, Revising [2014]
• Self-Study • External Review • Strategic Planning
Image “know where you are” by citymaus (CC-BY-ND 2.0)
https://flic.kr/p/dUbfST
THANKS… LIZ BISHOFF KRISTI SEARLE CARISSA SMITH OCEANA WILSON
Questions? Stephanie Davis-Kahl [email protected] @StephDK http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl
Bennington, Vermont Founded in 1932 Liberal Arts College 660 Undergraduate FTE 95 Graduate FTE 8/1 Student/Faculty ratio 8 Library Staff Members
Not migrating from another software or hosted service Not a consortium purchase
Starting Points
Evaluation of material Prioritizing Needs Identifying users
Needs Assessment
Cost Features Licensing, Ownership Support Examples
Evaluation of Repository Software
Cost Support, Hosted Community, Open source Mission-driven, not-for-profit Owning our data Google Analytics Google Scholar Indexing
Factors in selecting DSpace
Getting Started Check List Getting Started How To Emails, Phone Calls Quick start up
Implementation Experience
Exceptional Timely – Same day or next day responses. Collaborative – Questions added to DSpaceDirect KnowledgeBase
Support
Launch
Social Media Projects Classroom
Outreach
Google Analytics
DuraSpace Managing Digital Collections Survey 82% rated Extremely or Very Important “Expose my institution’s intellectual output to researchers around the world who would not otherwise have access” as an important benefit of digital or institutional repository.
http://www.duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/Managing%20Digital%20Collections%20Survey%20Results%20Summary.pdf
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QUESTIONS