STARS for Data

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Giving New Life to Old Memories: Migrating Central Florida Memory from CONTENTdm to Digital Commons

For 18 years, CONTENTdm was home to Central Florida Memory (CFM). CFM is a cooperative project started by three partner institutions in 2002 to provide an online platform and focal point for gathering, preserving, and disseminating the documents, artifacts, and stories of the history of Central Florida. As the project grew to include content from nine partners, UCF remained the primary technology support and host institution for Central Florida Memory. Recent server consolidations and lack of support for locally hosted CONTENTdm instances underscored the urgent need to migrate this valued cultural heritage content to another platform. In the Fall of 2019, the move from our CONTENTdm server to UCF’s Digital Commons institutional repository, STARS, began by repurposing existing metadata and files for a wide variety of materials including newspapers, weeklies, books, directories, correspondence, voter registration records, funeral home records, images, and more. This presentation will focus on the decisions and processes involved in the restructuring and reformatting of nearly 50,000 items. Key points of consideration included: Creating workflows to maximize productivity Providing access to meaningful digital surrogates Retaining existing features and functionality Integrating additional services Producing topic and partner portal page

History in the Open: Supporting Anthropology and History Faculty Projects with Digital Commons

Opening access to resources isn’t one size fits all. From new research to retrospective content, the Anthropology and History faculty at the University of Central Florida (UCF) are looking for innovative, cost-effective approaches to sharing their work and expertise. Through STARS, UCF’s Digital Commons instance, faculty have access to a platform for their materials and additional support services for a variety of projects. This session will explore the impetuses, creation, and outcomes of four faculty-led projects featuring open educational resources, open data, open syllabi, and an open image database

Digital Librarianship: Building Digital Collections and Preserving Local History

These slides represent my contribution to: “Digital Librarianship: Building Digital Collections and Preserving Local History,” with Melissa Minds VandeBurgt, presented at the Florida Library Association, Orlando, FL, May, 2013

STARS Workflow

Workflow outlining the working structure of STARS for projects. The diagram includes responsibilities for Subject Librarians, the Scholarly Communication Librarian, Digital Initiatives, and Metadata/Cataloging.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1003/thumbnail.jp

How to Upload a Library Document to STARS

For library faculty and staff use. Do you have a document created for library use that you would like to share with others or link to from the library’s website? These instructions provide step-by-step directions for uploading library documents to STARS.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/stars-documentation/1000/thumbnail.jp

Metadata migration to Islandora: Is there an easy way?

This presentation will introduce UCF’s digital collection migration from DigiTool to Islandora, the new content management system for the state universities in Florida. It discusses the issues in DublinCore (DC) to MODS transformation, explores the possible options, the approach adopted and the tool used for MODS metadata editing. As part of the state-wide Islandora implementation, UCF has been migrating its collections in DigiTool to MODS records for Islandora to ingest. In migrating from a less granular metadata schema to a more granular one, many issues are involved such as data ambiguity, overly generic data representation, the markup inadequacy in describing sub-elements and element relationships, and a less intricate data structure. Two options were explored: a. revamp the Library of Congress’s DC-MODS stylesheet to produce more desirable MODS metadata, b. edit the MODS records generated from a more generic stylesheet conversion. Due to the fact that the consensus needs to be reached among the state universities for any change, only some adjustments such as adding local subjects and online thesauri were made to the LC stylesheet state-wide, and the major work of MODS metadata editing fell on the individual university libraries. At UCF Libraries, Notepad++ was used to edit the MODS records, such as the first set of 847 records in the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) collection. In batch editing the MODS metadata and dealing with the DC-MODS transformation problems, data patterns in author year, author role terms, publication places, corporate and conference names were identified, data normalization and cleaning was executed, and several types of mark up and editing were performed: authors were marked up to distinguish author year and role from name; personal, corporate and conference names were differentiated; the main entry and added entries were distinguished; subtitle was separated from the main title; publication place was distinguished from publisher; topical, temporal, geographic, genre subdivisions were marked up for subjects; and series name and other common fields were added for the collection. This presentation addresses the common issues in DC-MODS metadata mapping and transformation, discusses possible solutions of customizing the XSLT stylesheet and editing the MODS XML records, and the balance that needs to be sought in pre- and post-transformation. It also raises some interesting questions in machine vs. human labor and utilizing the computer’s analytical power. It invites audience to participate in a wider discussion