Gabriela Mircea
Digital Projects Librarian; Visiting Program Officer, Metadata Strategies & Scholaris
University of Calgary; Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Julia Gilmore
Digital Projects Librarian
Scholars Portal
Scholaris is a new national shared repository service that supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian scholarship. Scholaris is built on DSpace software, with parallel instances hosted and managed by Scholars Portal (University of Toronto Libraries). Technical and community infrastructure are foundational pillars in the development of Scholaris. In addition to the technical aspects of the service, developing community infrastructure is a key component of building a forward-thinking service that serves the needs of the Canadian repository community and provides opportunities for greater alignment with international initiatives and best practices. To support this vision, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) established a Network of Experts. Three Expert Groups have been formed so far to focus on key areas of repository management: metadata and discovery, electronic theses and dissertations, and digital preservation. This presentation will reflect on insights gained at the one-year mark of these expert groups, offering practical examples of how to foster community-driven infrastructure for a shared repository service.
https://scholaris.ca
https://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-research/institutional-repositories/scholaris/