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Item Bayou City DAMS: Implementation Phase One, Outside the Box(2016-12-08) Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Krewer, Drew; Washington, Anne; Richardson, Matthew; Wu, Annie; Thompson, SantiThis presentation was given by members of the Bayou City DAMS implementation team in an Open Forum to the UH Libraries. The presentation provides an overview of the open source software tools developed and adopted by the UH Libraries for digital asset management and preservation.Item Bayou City DAMS: Outside the Box(2017-01-11) Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Washington, Anne; Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Richardson, MatthewThe University of Houston (UH) Libraries made an institutional commitment in late 2015 to migrate the data for its digitized cultural heritage collections to open source systems for preservation and access: Hydra-in-a-Box, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace. This presentation introduces the work that the UH Libraries implementation team completed in 2016, including open source tools for minting and resolving ARK identifiers, managing SKOS vocabularies, and streamlining digital curation workflows. These systems, workflows, and tools, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS), represent a novel effort to solve common issues in the digital curation lifecycle and may serve as a model for other institutions seeking to implement flexible and comprehensive systems for digital preservation and access.Item Changing Channels: Adapting an Ecosystem for Audiovisual Assets(2017-06-24) Richardson, Matthew; Vinson, EmilyThe University of Houston Libraries is in the process of implementing a new digital curation ecosystem. The project, Bayou City DAMS, incorporates a combination of locally-developed and open source solutions to streamline and integrate access and preservation workflows. When UH Libraries was awarded a grant to digitize and make available over 300 videos from a local TV station, the preservation and access of audiovisual objects moved from a long-term goal to a high priority. This presentation addresses the challenges introduced by very large video files and how the team, composed of members of Metadata and Digitization Services, Special Collections, and Library Technology Services, employed Agile methodologies to adapt workflows and systems.Item Identifying recognition opportunities: whom and what do we award in the field of Library and Information Science?(2017-06-25) Richardson, MatthewThe University of Houston Libraries created the Identifying Recognition Opportunities Committee (IROC) in order to identify available local and national opportunities and encourage UH Libraries staff to apply for and nominate one another for these opportunities. This poster shares how the committee approached this work, as well as insights gained regarding available opportunities for librarians, library staff, and LIS students. The committee reviewed over 250 opportunities offered by a number of professional organizations, resulting in the creation of a database to facilitate librarian, staff, and student applications for a wide variety of recognitions, including scholarships, travel grants, and other awards. In creating the searchable database, a controlled vocabulary was created for key words, such as "leadership," "underrepresented groups," and "innovation." Recognitions were also coded according to their audience: professional librarian, library support staff, or library school student. By reviewing such a large corpus, team members gained a perspective on the types of skill, abilities, and characteristics currently most recognized and awarded by the profession. This poster reports on the results of this research into recognitions and trends identified. Individuals and groups interested in applying for or nominating others for recognitions will benefit by gaining insights into where awards in the field are currently focused. Additionally, awarding institutions or organizations will benefit from learning about areas that may merit additional support in the future.Item Migration as motivation: Upgrading legacy finding aids in preparation for ArchivesSpace(2017-07-27) Richardson, Matthew; Scott, BethanyThe University of Houston Libraries Special Collections is migrating finding aids from Archon to ArchivesSpace. In addition, a cross-departmental team is working to migrate the UHL Digital Library from CONTENTdm to a Hyku repository. Envisioning our finding aids within a new digital curation ecosystem, it became apparent this migration project was also a data quality project. Focusing on data migration, systems integration, and standards-adherence, we undertook upgrading approximately 260 finding aids and creating minimal records for 100 “stub” records. This poster outlines our migration path into ArchivesSpace and shares strategies for creating DACS-compliant single-level descriptions for unprocessed materials.Item Moving on to a Greater Digital Destination: Implementing Digtial Asset Management and Preservation Systems at UH Libraries(2016-11-07) Wu, Annie; Washington, Anne; Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Krewer, Drew; Richardson, MatthewThe University of Houston (UH) Libraries recently selected Hydra and Archivematica for the long term stewardship of the Libraries’ digital collections. Presenters will provide an overview of the systems implementation process, tools that have been developed thus far, and discuss some of the challenges that the implementation team has faced.Item Outside The Box: Building a Digital Asset Management Ecosystem for Preservation and Access(2017-04-20) Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Krewer, Drew; Washington, Anne; Richardson, MatthewThe University of Houston (UH) Libraries made an institutional commitment in late 2015 to migrate the data for its digitized cultural heritage collections to open source systems for preservation and access: Hydra-in-a-Box, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace. This article describes the work that the UH Libraries implementation team has completed to date, including open source tools for streamlining digital curation workflows, minting and resolving identifiers, and managing SKOS vocabularies. These systems, workflows, and tools, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS), represent a novel effort to solve common issues in the digital curation lifecycle and may serve as a model for other institutions seeking to implement flexible and comprehensive systems for digital preservation and access.Item Outside The Box: Building a Digital Curation Ecosystem for Preservation and Access(2017-05) Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Krewer, Drew; Washington, Anne; Richardson, Matthew; Wu, Annie; Thompson, SantiThis presentation covers the tools and workflows that the University of Houston (UH) Libraries have developed to facilitate digital curation activities for our new repository architecture based on Hydra-in-a-Box, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS). BCDAMS development work began in early 2015 as an extension of a one and a half year process to evaluate and test DAMS. As a whole, these workflows and tools create an ecosystem that supports the long term preservation and access of the digitized cultural heritage materials in the UH Libraries unique collections. The project team, consisting of members from Digitization, Metadata, Special Collections, and Web Services, employed an agile development methodology to lay the foundation for the UH Libraries migration from our current system to the BCDAMS. Over nine development cycles, each lasting approximately one month, the BCDAMS team created five applications (named for bayous in the Houston metropolitan area) that address key issues in digital curation: Persistent identification of digital resources (Greens); Local management of linked data vocabularies (Cedar); Preparation of files and metadata for Archivematica ingest (Carpenters); Metadata editing for Hydra-in-a-Box ingest (Brays); and Representation of archival collections in ArchivesSpace (Halls). In addition, the project team began the complex process of descriptive metadata analysis and remediation to prepare for collection migration, resulting in a Ruby gem for downloading metadata through the CONTENTdm API and an online metadata application profile that is shared by all systems. Each development cycle ended with an internal report documenting the project’s progress.Item Outside The Box: Building a Digital Curation Ecosystem for Preservation and Access(2017-06) Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Scott, Bethany; Krewer, Drew; Washington, Anne; Richardson, MatthewThe University of Houston (UH) Libraries made an institutional commitment in late 2015 to migrate the data for its digitized cultural heritage collections to open source systems for preservation and access: Hydra-in-a-Box, Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace. This presentation describes the work that the UH Libraries implementation team has completed to date, including open source tools for minting and resolving ARK identifiers, managing SKOS vocabularies, and streamlining digital curation workflows. These systems, workflows, and tools, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System, represent a novel effort to solve common issues in the digital curation lifecycle and may serve as a model for other institutions seeking to implement flexible and comprehensive systems for digital preservation and access.