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CASRAI: Working Toward Research Information Interoperability in the UK

March 26, 2014

Ben Showers
Head of Scholarly and Library Futures
Jisc

CASRAI data standards are aimed at simplifying interoperability in order to reduce duplication and improve the quality of research administration data that is distributed across multiple software tools, organizations, disciplines and countries.

This presentation will describe the work of the CASRAI-UK project, which is working to develop a ‘UK chapter’ of the CASRAI dictionary to improve the interoperability of UK research information. It will describe the work of CASRAI, the pilot UK project and its development of national networks and the current UK research information management landscape.

http://casrai.org/
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/casraipilot.aspx

Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata, Project Briefing Pages, Research Data Management, Standards
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Can a Consortium Build a Viable Preservation Repository?

March 26, 2014

Suzanne E. Thorin
Program Director, Academic Preservation Trust
University of Virginia

Bradley Daigle
Director, Digital Curation Services; APTrust Content Lead
University of Virginia

Stephen Davis
Director, Columbia Libraries Digital Program
Columbia University

Linda Newman
Head, Digital Collections and Repositories
University of Cincinnati

Scott Turnbull
Senior Software and Systems Administrator; APTrust Technology Lead
University of Virginia

 

The Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), a consortium of 16 institutions, was formed two and a half years ago when a small group of academic library deans agreed to take a community approach in building and managing a repository that would provide long-term preservation of the scholarly record. The repository also aims to aggregate content, to provide for disaster recovery, to leverage economies of scale, and to explore access and other services. From its beginning, APTrust has been a layered collaboration of deans, technology experts, content/preservation specialists, and a small APTrust staff located at the University of Virginia. The growth of the consortium has been bumpy at times, with differences of opinion regarding technology decisions and, inside the University of Virginia (UVA), in building awareness that an entrepreneurial program requires quick responses from the infrastructure. APTrust remains repository and format agnostic by using the Baglt specification for content submission. Metadata is managed by Fedora with pointers to content preserved in Amazon S3 and Glacier with administrative functions built using Hydra and Blacklight. The repository is scheduled to go live in June and will become a Digital Preservation Network (DPN) node. A panel of APTrust partners and UVA staff will describe the interplay in decision making among deans, technologists, and content experts and will discuss the evolving nature of an effort that is approaching full production, including questions of governance, business modeling, certification goals and the consortium’s evolving approach to the complex issues related to digital preservation.

http://aptrust.org

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Community-based Stewardship at Pennsylvania State University

March 26, 2014

Mike Furlough
Associate Dean for Research & Scholarly Communications
Pennsylvania State University

Patricia Hswe
Head, ScholarSphere User Services and Digital Content Strategist
Pennsylvania State University

Ben Goldman
Digital Records Archivist
Pennsylvania State University

 

This presentation will trace Pennsylvania State University’s community-driven strategy for developing digital stewardship through two services: 1) ScholarSphere, deployed for “scholarly works” produced by faculty, staff, and students; and 2) ArchiveSphere, being created for the management of institutional records, and aimed at a more narrowly defined audience charged with specific duties defined in University policy. Both services share a common code base developed on the Hydra/Fedora framework. Mike Giarlo and Patricia Hswe have previously written that “[t]he story of ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository (IR) service, is a multilayered, community-driven narrative.” To develop this service together, the University Libraries and Information Technology Services took a deliberate approach to building communities of practice, first among librarians and technologists, then among faculty, students, and staff, and ultimately in the wider digital preservation world. Both partners engaged potential stakeholders and users of the service at the earliest stages of development to guide functionality and service planning. As a result ScholarSphere is unusual among repository services in the degree of control it cedes to depositors to set the level of access, rights, and persistence for materials they contribute. ScholarSpheres’s flexibility contrasts with expectations of records managers, who organize and collect institutional records according to well-defined policies and retention schedules. ArchiveSphere, envisioned in response to the growing need to manage born-digital records, will enable an archivist to deposit hierarchies of digital materials, preserve the relational and hierarchical connections among files while also permitting rearrangement and classification.

At Penn State, a strong stakeholder base exists because of a thriving records management program and community of liaisons in offices throughout the university. Additionally, there are common needs for digital archival management tools across multiple institutions and the opportunity for further community development around these needs. How can community-building practices be applied to the development of ArchiveSphere? This presentation will include a brief overview of community development and user engagement in the development and promotion of ScholarSphere, followed by an outline of current development plans for ArchiveSphere and the records management community at Pennsylvania State University.

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories, Scholarly Communication
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Continuing the Conversation

March 26, 2014

Bryan Alexander
Head, Bryan Alexander Consulting
Senior Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)

Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Continue the conversation with Cliff Lynch and Bryan Alexander. They will take questions and comments on the topics discussed during the plenary, and will explore some of the issues a bit more in depth.

 

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Course Readings in Learning Management Systems

March 26, 2014

Eric Frierson
Discovery Services Engineer
EBSCO Information Services

Michael Waugh
Systems Librarian
Louisiana State University

 

The Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) protocol provides opportunities for third parties (libraries or library vendors) to create immersive experiences for a variety of learning management systems (LMS) (e.g., Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, Moodle, Sakai). EBSCO, a provider of library databases and discovery services, has created an LTI-compliant tool that allows course instructors to build assigned reading lists without ever leaving the LMS. This session will include a brief explanation of the LTI protocol (for those interested in building LTI tools), demonstration of how the EDS Reading List tool makes use of it to the benefit of course instructors, and discussion of how this technology can help libraries add value to the teaching and learning experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEeZ25PmrM

 Presentation Slides

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2014 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, Teaching & Learning, User Services
Tagged With: cni2014spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

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