The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Migration Itself: Dspace to Hydra, What Could Go Wrong?

Oregon State University (OSU) is in the process of migrating from Dspace to a Sufia/Hydra platform, but this move is not without challenges. Developer needs, timeline estimation, metadata cleanup and migration, and working closely with a distributed community of users and developers all present challenges. In this talk, I’ll address why we’re migrating, what benefits we’re expecting from the migration, and what challenges we’re experiencing

Assessing Research Data Management Practices of Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University

INTRODUCTION: Recent changes to requirements for research data management by federal granting agencies and by other funding institutions have resulted in the emergence of institutional support for these requirements. At CMU, we sought to formalize assessment of research data management practices of researchers at the institution by launching a faculty survey and conducting a number of interviews with researchers. METHODS: We submitted a survey on research data management practices to a sample of faculty including questions about data production, documentation, management, and sharing practices. The survey was coupled with in-depth interviews with a subset of faculty. We also make estimates of the amount of research data produced by faculty. RESULTS: Survey and interview results suggest moderate level of awareness of the regulatory environment around research data management. Results also present a clear picture of the types and quantities of data being produced at CMU and how these differ among research domains. Researchers identified a number of services that they would find valuable including assistance with data management planning and backup/storage services. We attempt to estimate the amount of data produced and shared by researchers at CMU. DISCUSSION: Results suggest that researchers may need and are amenable to assistance with research data management. Our estimates of the amount of data produced and shared have implications for decisions about data storage and preservation. CONCLUSION: Our survey and interview results have offered significant guidance for building a suite of services for our institution

Digital Asset Management System Assessment: Use Cases for Digital Infrastructure Re-design

Academic libraries that offer digital asset management systems (DAMS) and services such as an institutional repository, data curation services, and digitization of historic documents face the need to assess and refine services. This need can be most apparent when considering changes to DAMS infrastructure. The proposed panel presents the experiences of OSU Libraries and Press as we move to a new DAMS system for ScholarsArchive@OSU. Before considering DAMS platforms, we conducted an in-depth requirements analysis with our stakeholders, both within our organization as well as with stakeholders outside of the organization. The panelists will include OSU faculty and administrators selected for requirements interviews who present unique use cases for the DAMS, including those for whom the current iteration of the DAMS does not provide adequate service. Audience members will learn about using requirements analysis to design new digital infrastructures and will learn about popular digital library technologies (e.g. Hydra, DSpace)

Research Data Management on a Shoestring Budget

In response to mandates from the federal government, many academic librarians face a new challenge to become service providers for research data management. A panel at RDAP14 convened representatives from Virginia Commonwealth University, James Madison University and a collaboration of seven New England libraries to discuss their strategies in response to the regulations when faced with limited resources. A common theme was to take advantage of work already done by others, including faculty surveys and existing data management resources such as DMPTool and Data Curation and Profiles Toolkit. Spreading the word on data issues to spark collaboration and gaining the support of library administration are key. Positive response from stakeholders can provide momentum to request additional resources and provide instruction on data management planning

Towards Easy Deposit: Building a System to Automate Green Open Access

This proposal describes the design and development of an interoperable application that supports green open access with long-term sustainability and improves user experience of deposit for institutional repository. Background: Ineffective marketing and the lack of author participation are the most significant barriers that hinder green open access. Introduction: Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries are tasked to implement university’s open access policy via its institutional repository. In previous, OSU Libraries dedicated an entire staff position to the solicitation and deposit of faculty research articles produced by OSU faculty. In order to free up these staff resources for other work, we implemented a semi-automated deposit system called Easy Deposit 2. Methodology: Easy Deposit 2 harvests metadata for journal articles authored by OSU faculty using Web of Science API, parses and fetches metadata, and sends a solicitation email to the corresponding author for each article, including a link to a deposit form in Easy Deposit 2. The author can then use the link to deposit a copy of the article manuscript into university’s institutional repository. Conclusion: Since launched in October 2018, Easy Deposit 2 has harvested 1,172 journal articles and 176 out of them have been self-archived by the authors - a rate somewhat lower than when we manually solicited articles from faculty. We will continue to improve the system and have a further analysis after collecting more data

ScholarsArchive@OSU Repository Core Trust Seal Self-Assessment: 2022

The authors completed and submitted this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in August 2022. The repository was awarded CoreTrustSeal certification for trustworthy data repositories. This international certification is based on a set of requirements and best practices for repositories, including data description, infrastructure, interoperability, sustainability, and preservation. In meeting these standards and gaining certification, OSU joins a worldwide group of over 160 trusted data repositories

ScholarsArchive@OSU Repository Core Trust Seal Self Assessment : June 2019

In Spring 2019, a library team was asked to conduct this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in order to determine whether the repository could achieve certification as a trusted digital repository

Hyrax, Hyku, HyWhat? Update on the Hydra-in-a-Box Repository Project and Demo of a Live Application

In this presentation, we will give an update on the Hydra-in-a-Box project, introduce attendees to the features of the HyBox repository product (Hyku) and offer a live demo of the Oregon State University Institutional Repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU, recently migrated from DSpace to the Hydra application, Hyrax

Recursive Metrics

<p>Some early work on recursive metrics. Hoping for great things to come!</p