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Let it ROAR: Expanding University of Houston’s Open Access Services
(2018-10-17)
As part of the University of Houston (UH) Libraries’ 2017-2021 Strategic Plan, a cross-departmental implementation team was formed to expand our open access research repository services beyond electronic theses and ...
Moving On Toward A Greater Digital Destination: An Update from the DAMS Task Force
(2018-07-17)
This presentation was given by members of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Implementation Task Force in an Open Forum for the UH Libraries. The presentation covers recent developments in the Bayou City DAMS ...
Who? What? Why? When? A Tale of ETD Metadata
(2015-01-12)
Early proponents of ETDs argued that moving from print to electronic format would make “these works more readily accessible to other scholars,” raising the specter that “...theses and dissertations lie moldering in library ...
Bridge2Hyku Toolkit Pilot Test Report
(2019-04-03)
To 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 ...
Collaborating for Better Metadata: Upgrading Metadata in the University of Houston Digital Library
(2013-11-05)
The Metadata and Digitization Services (MDS) department has initiated a project to audit and upgrade the existing metadata in the University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL). Collaboration has been a key from the very ...
Bridge2Hyku Tools for Training: Repository Selection, Migration, and Skills for Success
(2020-01-25)
Content 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 ...
Texas Data Repository: A Year in Review
(2018-07-20)
The Texas Data Repository (TDR) is a consortial data repository administered by the Texas Digital Library and using the Dataverse platform. In this lightning talk I will briefly discuss: (1) progress that the TDR steering ...
Automated Enhancement of Controlled Vocabularies: Upgrading Legacy Metadata in CONTENTdm [Conference Paper]
(International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2014-10)
To ensure robust, reliable, retrievable and sharable metadata, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries initiated a Metadata Upgrade Project in 2013 to systematically audit and refine the quality of the metadata in the ...
Vamp It Up and Make It Better: Auditing and Upgrading Metadata in the UH Digital Library
(2013-03-21)
Since 2009 the University of Houston Libraries have expanded access to the rare and special collections through the University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL). Three years and nearly 50,000 digital items later, UHDL has ...
Updating Metadata Guidelines To Improve ETD Discoverability and Use
(2015-07-27)
Early proponents of ETDs argued that moving from print to electronic format would make “these works more readily accessible to other scholars,” raising the specter that “...theses and dissertations lie moldering in library ...