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Item A Virtual Linked Data Study Group: Our Experiences and Perspectives(2024-02-15) Crane, Jill; Hood, Martha; Pappas, Jodene; Ramirez, Ada Laura; Vandale, SusanAt the University of Houston Libraries in 2018, a virtual Linked Data Study Group took root and grew to include a total of seven librarians from multiple institutions across the country. This presentation highlights a collaborative model for learning and professional growth in technical services.Item Creating Efficient and Sustainable Workflows for Scholarly Works into a DSpace Repository(2018) Davis-Van Atta, Taylor; Ramirez, Ada Laura; Dulek, Diana; Washington, AnneIn fall 2017, a team at UH Libraries piloted an expanded set of repository services, including mediated submission of faculty and student works and faculty self-submissions. The Metadata and Digitization Services department worked closely with Digital Research Services to create and implement new workflows for the batch processing and upload of faculty and student research into the UH Institutional Repository. In the 2 month pilot phase, the team added over 650 faculty and student works to the IR and is now scaling up these services.Item Customized CV Service Workflows for DSpace Repositories(2019-09) Davis-Van Atta, Taylor; Washington, Anne; Dulek, Diana; Ramirez, Ada LauraSlides for a presentation delivered at the North American DSpace Users Group Meeting at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, September 2019. Full workflows and service documentation available at bit.ly/UHoustonCVWorkflows. Conference abstract: The University of Houston Libraries has recently created and implemented workflows for the upload of large batches of faculty research into its DSpace Institutional Repository. These workflows are largely based on modifications made to existing scripts and open source packaging software, and were made possible through collaborative efforts with the Texas Digital Library and other DSpace institutions. This process has involved establishing new in-house metadata procedures and standards, templates for managing and sharing bibliographic data, and divisions of labor. Through the creation of these structured workflows, we have been able to scale our efforts, now employing and training a dedicated team of student employees to carry out this campus-wide service. Over a six-month span, the team has prepared over 1,300 full-text faculty works for ingest into the repository, using faculty CVs as its main source of bibliographic information. This presentation details the challenges and lessons learned from the development and refinement of these end-to-end workflows, as well as a discussion about the broader implications of establishing this option for our faculty researchers. We will package and publicly share all documentation related to this process in hopes that our efforts might inspire wider adoption of these workflows among the DSpace community.Item Here Be Dragons: Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Legacy Thesis and Dissertation Digitization(2021-05) Wu, Annie; Cooper, Crystal; Davis Van-Atta, Taylor; Jones, Jerrell; Ramirez, Ada Laura; Scott, Bethany; Thompson, Santi; Washington, Anne; Weidner, AndrewDigitizing 19,000 print theses and dissertations for ingest into an institutional repository is a daunting task fraught with pitfalls and peril. In the Fall of 2018, the Theses and Dissertations Digitization (TDD) Task Force at the University of Houston (UH) Libraries fearlessly set out to accomplish just that. We have learned many lessons about the legal and technical environment surrounding the retrospective digitization of scholarly works. This poster, presented at the 2021 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, provides an overview of the project and highlights the many challenges the team faced as it assessed the project scope, developed workflows, and bootstrapped production activities.Item Out of the Woods: Charting Metadata with Digital Tools(2022-05) Smith, Marian; Bowaniya, Salima; Ramirez, Ada LauraThis poster highlights the MARC to Dublin Core metadata transformation and the use of the automation tool kit to streamline the metadata process, a necessary step in a large-scale digitization project that promotes accessibility to scholarly materials.Item Stop Storming and Start Performing: Developing a DAMS using Scrum(2021-05) Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Jones, Jerrell; Zepeda, Christin; Ramirez, Ada LauraTo answer calls for improved access, discovery, and system integration, UH Libraries has been building a flexible digital collections ecosystem over the past several years. In 2020, UH Libraries launched its digital collections ecosystem that supports efficient digital collections management, effective digital preservation, and integration with ArchivesSpace to better support discovery and retrieval of digital objects. This complex and challenging undertaking resulted in the adoption of a project management approach called Agile using a framework called Scrum. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the DAMS, and describe our project management trajectory from its earliest days, through its transformation into a highly effective team regularly delivering value-added increments to our users and stakeholders. We will give examples of different parts of the agile processes, the pivot points in the project, and the lessons learned from each iteration of our team. We are substantially underway with our migration of collections from CONTENTdm to our new repository and continue to benefit from the success of our Scrum approach.Item This is America: Creating Anti-racist Metadata for Digital Collections(2021-05) Ramirez, Ada LauraAnti-racist reparative metadata work is challenging. Legacy descriptive metadata may use passive, inaccurate, or outdated terminology. Original titles are difficult to change due to standards or the limitations of digital repositories’ search capabilities. Moreover, appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings terms are not always available and new local terms are difficult to create, especially for long-term use. In this poster we showcase using the title, alternate title, description, and subject fields in complementary ways, to reduce racist, harmful, or outdated metadata in a small digital collection of Theodore de Bry’s America copper engravings.