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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 Bayou City DAMS: Post-Harvey & Pre-Hyrax(2018-05-15) Weidner, Andrew; Watkins, Sean; Washington, Anne; Elizondo, Marcus; Scott, Bethany; Crocken, ToddThis is a lightning talk delivered at the May 2018 South Central States Fedora Users Group meeting held at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas. The talk provides updates on the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System implementation work at the University of Houston Libraries since Hurricane Harvey.Item Bridge2Hyku GWLA Webinar(2019-05-29) Crocken, Todd; Washington, Anne; Wu, Annie; Seeman, Dean; Thompson, SantiA team of software developers and metadata experts from the University of Houston and the University of Victoria (BC) discuss the Bridge2Hyku Project. Including tools to migrate digital collections and metadata from ContentDM (and other platforms) to the Hyku digital repository. This webinar was for the Greater Western Library Alliance.Item Bridge2Hyku Toolkit Pilot Test Report(2019-04-03) Crocken, Todd; Washington, Anne; Wu, Annie; Watkins, Sean; Thompson, Santi; Weidner, Andrew; Vallejo, LeroyTo wrap up phase two, the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) project team at University of Houston (UH) and University of Victoria (UVic) partnered with the Texas Digital Library (TDL) to conduct the B2H Toolkit Pilot Test. The findings of the pilot test are available in this report.Item Bridge2Hyku Tools for Training: Repository Selection, Migration, and Skills for Success(2020-01-25) Washington, Anne; Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Watkins, Sean; Vallejo, LeroyContent migration from proprietary systems to open source repositories remains a barrier for many institutions due to lack of tools, tutorials, and documentation. The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership/Project Grant to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit which aims to remove obstacles to adoption and migration. The Toolkit, which includes general migration strategies and use cases as well as tools for transitioning from CONTENTdm to Hyku, acts as a comprehensive resource to facilitate repository migration. This talk will highlight how the toolkit can be a training resource for repository selection and migration, and will include discussion of the knowledge and skills needed to work on digital repository selection and migration.Item Bridge2Hyku: Building the Bridge towards an Open Source Digital Solution(2019-04-08) Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Weidner, Andrew; Crocken, Todd; Watkins, Sean; Washington, Anne; Vallejo, LeroyThe University of Houston Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership/Project Grant to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. Content migration from proprietary systems to open source repositories remains a barrier for many institutions due to lack of tools, tutorials, and documentation. The B2H Toolkit, which includes migration strategies and use cases as well as tools for transitioning from CONTENTdm to Hyku, acts as a comprehensive resource to facilitate repository migration. Having reached key milestones, the presenters will showcase the toolkit and describe how it can help institutions complete digital collections migration efficiently. The presenters will also share collaborative strategies with partner institutions in this grant project, and they will discuss sustainability and promotion of the B2H toolkit.Item Bridge2Hyku: Building the Bridge towards an Open Source Digital Solution(2019-10-14) Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Weidner, Andrew; Crocken, Todd; Watkins, Sean; Washington, Anne; Leroy, VallejoThe University of Houston Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership/Project Grant to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. Content migration from proprietary systems to open source repositories remains a barrier for many institutions due to lack of tools, tutorials, and documentation. The B2H Toolkit, which includes migration strategies and use cases as well as tools for transitioning from CONTENTdm to Hyku, acts as a comprehensive resource to facilitate repository migration. Having reached key milestones, the presenters will showcase the toolkit and describe how it can help institutions complete digital collections migration efficiently. The presenters will also share collaborative strategies with partner institutions in this grant project, and they will discuss sustainability and promotion of the B2H toolkit.Item Bridge2Hyku: Developing Migration Strategies and Tools(2018-10-15) Washington, Anne; Seeman, Dean; Crocken, Todd; Thompson, Santi; Watkins, Sean; Weidner, Andrew; Wu, AnnieThe University of Houston (UH) Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an IMLS National Leadership/Project Grant (LG-70-17-0217-17) to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. Focusing on general information and guides for digital collections migration as well as on specific content for migrating to the Hyku platform, the toolkit will help institutions better understand their digital library ecosystems and how they can plan, prepare for, and conduct migrations. This two-year grant project is divided into three phases. Phase one of the project identified digital collections and system requirements needed for migration strategy and tool development. Phase two, currently in progress, is dedicated to the creation of the B2H website, migration tool development and documentation. Phase three is for assessment, improvement and promotion of the toolkit. This presentation will outline and discuss activities in these key phases and share the work completed to date.Item Bridge2Hyku: Meeting Practitioners’ Needs in Digital Collection Migration to Open Source Samvera Repository(Publications, 2020-04-21) Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Washington, Anne; Watkins, Sean; Weidner, Andrew; Woodward, Nicholas; Seeman, DeanThe University of Houston Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership/Project Grant to create the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. Content migration from proprietary systems to open source repositories remains a barrier for many institutions due to lack of tools, tutorials, and documentation. The B2H Toolkit, which includes migration strategies, migration tools, as well as system requirements for transitioning from CONTENTdm to Hyku, acts as a comprehensive resource to facilitate repository migration. Through a phased toolkit development process, the project team solicited inputs and feedback from peer migration practitioners via survey and pilot testing. The analysis of the feedback data was built into use cases which informed the development and enhancement of the migration strategies and tools. Working across institutions with migration practitioners’ needs in mind, the project team was able to successfully release a Toolkit that mitigates migration barriers and fills gaps in the migration process. Providing a path to a community-supported open source digital solution, the Bridge2Hyku Toolkits ensures access and expanded use of digital content and collections of libraries and cultural heritage institutions.Item Bridge2Hyku: Tools and Strategies for Content Migration to Open Source Repository(2019-06-12) Crocken, Todd; Wu, Annie; Thompson, Santi; Watkins, Sean; Washington, Anne; Weidner, Andrew; Vallejo, LeroyThis PowerPoint slide deck was used by Santi Thompson and Annie Wu when presenting at CNI Spring 2019 and at Open Repositories 2019. It provides an overview of the Bridge2Hyku project, including its toolkit and documentation.Item Bridges to Hyku: A Multi-Institutional Effort Towards Migration Tooling(2019-05-22) Crocken, Todd; Seeman, Dean; Thompson, Santi; Vallejo, Leroy; Washington, Anne; Watkins, Sean; Weidner, Andrew; Woodward, Nick; Wu, AnnieThe Bridge2Hyku Project, an IMLS National Leadership/Project Grant (LG-70-17-0217-17), is nearing the end of its second phase and has produced a multifaceted migration toolkit for those planning or implementing a digital asset management system migration. The toolkit contains a software toolkit for migration from CONTENTdm to the Hyku repository as well as a website of information on general system migration considerations and practices. The toolkit is comprised of a standalone desktop application to harvest metadata and digital objects from CONTENTdm and a Rails gem that facilitates importing said harvest into a Samvera repository. After Phase I work of information gathering from grant partners, collaboratively developing use cases and toolkit components, the University of Houston partnered with the University of Victoria and Texas Digital Library to conduct a pilot to test and refine the software in the toolkit. During the pilot, several improvements were made to the toolkit applications with an emphasis on better functionality and stability. As a multi-institutional project team, the panel will discuss the different practices and perspectives employed by these three partners throughout Phase 2. University of Houston’s Content Strategist, Lead Repository Developer, and Metadata Services Coordinator will discuss toolkit development and how the Bridge2Hyku project has helped with their own preparations to move to a Samvera-based platform. University of Victoria’s Head of Metadata will discuss institutional customizations of Hyku and lessons learned during migration so far, while Texas Digital Library’s Senior Software Engineer will describe their participation in the pilot and how consortia play a role in migration workflows. The panel members will explore reasons to migrate, why they chose Hyku to pilot, and how the tools developed help in the overall workflow of migration.Item A Case Study of ETD Metadata Remediation at the University of Houston Libraries(2019-01-11) Thompson, Santi; Liu, Xiping; Duran, Albert; Washington, AnneThis paper provides a case study on remediating electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) metadata at the University of Houston Libraries. The authors provide an overview of the team’s efforts to revise existing ETD metadata in its institutional repository as part of their commitment to aligning ETD records with the Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Version 2.0 (TDL guidelines, version 2). The paper reviews the existing literature on metadata quality and ETD metadata practices, noting how their case study adds one of the first documented cases of ETD metadata remediation. The metadata upgrade process is described, with close attention to the tools and workflows developed to complete the remediation. The authors conclude the paper with a discussion of lessons learned, the project’s limitations, future plans, and the emerging needs of metadata remediation work.Item Cleaning up legacy metadata for ETDs: Strategies, tools and a look into the future [Poster](2016-09-27) Liu, Xiping; Duran, Albert; Washington, AnneSince July 2015, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries Metadata and Digitization Services (MDS) Metadata Unit in collaboration with the UH Libraries Digital Repository Services (DRS) department has been working towards the goal of improving the quality of legacy Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) metadata in the UH Institutional Repository. In addition to standardizing the metadata for internal purposes, this effort, known as the ETD Metadata Upgrade Project, will align UH ETD metadata with the newest Dictionary of Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata for Electronic Theses and Dissertations . The Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas that provides shared services in support of research, teaching, and the advancement of scholarship. It facilitates collaboration among the TDL community and with external partners. By bringing the University of Houston’s ETD metadata into compliance with TDL guidelines, the connection to other TDL member institutions is strengthened and the Libraries are better positioned to take advantage of ETD system developments. This poster presentation will describe the background of this project, the procedures that have been developed, the tools used in the work, and plans for future work. Poster presenters will share how they wrangled and revised legacy ETD metadata exported from the Libraries’ TDL-hosted DSpace and Vireo instances using Microsoft Access and Open Refine. They will detail how they addressed challenges presented by particular fields such as standardizing advisor, committee member, department, and degree discipline names and how they intend to reimport the cleaned data into DSpace. The team will also share strategies for project communication, documentation, and task management using Basecamp and PmWiki. Finally, presenters will share goals of further streamlining and automating ongoing metadata remediation, deploying a local RDF vocabulary management system to aid in name and department standardization, and exploring the publication of ETD metadata as linked data. Overall, these strategies and tools have improved the ETD metadata quality and workflows, strengthened the communication and collaboration between the DRS department and the MDS Metadata Unit, and given insight into opportunities for future development. This poster will be useful for library and information professionals that have similar ETD goals. Viewers of this poster will come away with techniques to address ETD metadata maintenance needs for their digital repositories.Item Cleaning up legacy metadata for ETDs: Strategies, tools and a look into the future [Presentation](2016-09-27) Liu, Xiping; Duran, Albert; Washington, AnneSince July 2015, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries Metadata and Digitization Services (MDS) Metadata Unit in collaboration with the UH Libraries Digital Repository Services (DRS) department has been working towards the goal of improving the quality of legacy Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) metadata in the UH Institutional Repository. In addition to standardizing the metadata for internal purposes, this effort, known as the ETD Metadata Upgrade Project, will align UH ETD metadata with the newest Dictionary of Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata for Electronic Theses and Dissertations. The Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas that provides shared services in support of research, teaching, and the advancement of scholarship. It facilitates collaboration among the TDL community and with external partners. By bringing the University of Houston’s ETD metadata into compliance with TDL guidelines, the connection to other TDL member institutions is strengthened and the Libraries are better positioned to take advantage of ETD system developments. This presentation will describe the background of this project, the procedures that have been developed, the tools used in the work, and plans for future work. Presenters will share how they wrangled and revised legacy ETD metadata exported from the Libraries’ TDL-hosted DSpace and Vireo instances using Microsoft Access and Open Refine. They will detail how they addressed challenges presented by particular fields - such as standardizing advisor, committee member, department, and degree discipline names - and how they intend to re-import the cleaned data into DSpace. The team will also share strategies for project communication, documentation, and task management using Basecamp and PmWiki. Finally, presenters will share goals of further streamlining and automating ongoing metadata remediation, deploying a local RDF vocabulary management system to aid in name and department standardization, and exploring the publication of ETD metadata as linked data. Overall, these strategies and tools have improved the ETD metadata quality and workflows, strengthened the communication and collaboration between the DRS department and the MDS Metadata Unit, and given insight into opportunities for future development. This presentation will be useful for libraries and information centers that have similar ETD goals. Session attendees will come away with techniques to address ETD metadata maintenance needs for their digital repositories.Item Collaborative Metadata Application Profile Development for DAMS Migration(2017-10-26) Washington, Anne; Weidner, AndrewIn 2015, after an extensive review process, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries chose the open source systems Hyku (then known as the Hydra-in-a-Box project), Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace to form the Libraries’ digital collections access and preservation ecosystem. This suite of systems, along with locally developed tools, form the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS). In 2016, the BCDAMS Implementation Team began work on a multi-phase process to roll out the new systems to replace the current digital collections management system, CONTENTdm. Phase I of this process included developing fundamental models and principles as well as much of the local infrastructure and workflows. Phase II of the project will involve migrating existing digital collection metadata and files to the new digital asset management system (DAMS). This poster summarizes work done during Phase I of the project to prepare for the migration work in Phase II. This included working collaboratively to develop a Metadata Application Profile (MAP) and crosswalk, and an analysis of metadata remediation required to prepare for migration. It shares the UH Libraries unique experience in preparing for the migration of UH Digital Library (UHDL) data from CONTENTdm to a new system and offers some general considerations for DAMS migrations.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 Digital Collections Survey Report for Bridge2Hyku: IMLS Funded Project(2018-07-05) Crocken, Todd; Thompson, Santi; Washington, Anne; Wu, Annie; Weidner, AndrewThis report shares the results and analysis of the digital collections survey of the Bridge2Hyku project. The Bridge2Hyku project plans to create a migration toolkit and the survey's results, which lay out the current state of the partner institution's digital libraries and their accompanying workflows, shape the scope and requirements of that toolkit.Item Git a Grip: Using GitHub to Manage Your Metadata Application Profile(2017) Washington, AnneLocal Metadata Application Profiles and input guidelines are always evolving. GitHub provides a simple way to manage metadata documentation with the added benefit of versioning. This allows metadata specialists to see changes in practice over time. Learn how University of Houston Libraries is using GitHub to create and manage their Metadata Application Profile.