UCDLFx 2019

In September 2018, a statewide project was kicked off to investigate how the UC Libraries might license a single, shared, systemwide ILS. Please join us for a panel of Systemwide ILS (SILS) Project participants who will be speaking on the work that’s been done so far - including our newly completed RFP - and what will come next. Panelists will discuss the project in various aspects, including large-scale project management, harmonization / normalization, and campus perspectives.

Dryad and California Digital Library (CDL) partnered to address researcher needs and drive adoption of research data publishing. Since partnering last year, a joint product team across CDL and Dryad has transitioned the Dryad digital repository on to UC’s Dash technology. As we gear up to launch this collaborative service for the UC and global research communities, it is essential that we get testing communication plans underway. We are looking to UC librarians and research stakeholders for feedback and ideas for successfully launching the renewed Dryad (while removing the branding Dash) in our UC community. Come join this session to hear about our new UC service, including discussions on Dryad’s technical infrastructure, library administrative features, and research workflow integrations.

Since the adoption of UC’s open access policies (UCSF Academic Senate policy in 2012, Systemwide Academic Senate policy in 2013, and UC Presidential policy in 2015), researchers have been encouraged to make their publications publicly accessible in eScholarship, UC's open access repository and publishing platform. The public now benefits from nearly 46,000 UC open access articles, and enthusiasm to participate has increased across campuses.


The UC Publication Management System, an implementation of Symplectic Elements, supports policy participation, automating much of the process of identifying and submitting articles. The system rollout to Academic Senate members began with a well-planned pilot developed in partnership between CDL and pilot campuses UC Irvine, UCLA, and UCSF. The lessons learned were integral to the smooth implementations at the remaining campuses.


Now we are ready to open this system, in phases, to the significantly greater number of UC employees who fall under the Presidential policy.


In this workshop, we will lead a conversation on the Presidential policy pilot plan, its anticipated challenges and concerns, and how we propose to address them. We also aim to gain feedback on the pilot plan and what we may be missing -- your feedback is instrumental to a successful pilot.

ROR is a community-led project (with CDL as one of the steering organizations) to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world. The ROR project addresses a gap in the scholarly community ecosystem: the lack of open, stakeholder-governed-infrastructure for research organization identifiers and associated metadata that can uniquely identify research outputs with the institutions where research is produced. In short, we believe that institutions and libraries should not have to pay to access information about what and where their researchers are publishing. In this talk, I will describe the aims of ROR, discuss key use cases, present the work we have done so far to build the registry, share our plans for next steps, and solicit feedback from meeting participants about the long-term roadmap and data governance model.

Does the FAIR acronym apply to identifiers as well as to content? Implications of this question for research data are explored in the context of a mainstream alternative to paywalled, siloed identifier systems. The California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are collaborating to create an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. The collaboration, called “ARKs in the Open”, will build on the 500 institutions (research, not-for-profit, private, government, etc.) across the world that have registered to use ARK identifiers, and the estimated 3.2 billion ARKs that have been created for digital objects, physical artifacts, people, places, and terminology.

Anticipating the decentralized web, the ARK identifier scheme is unusual in not imposing fees and not mandating use of any one choke point for all resolution. Reflecting the open ARK philosophy, the global ARK resolver (N2T.net) resolves over 600 kinds of identifiers. Since 2001, CDL has served as the incubator for ARK infrastructure, which is now poised to emerge from CDL and mature towards long-term sustainability in partnership with the 31 organizations on 4 continents whose support “ARKs in the Open” has garnered.

In the past year, librarians at UC Merced and UC San Diego have successfully opened hundreds of UC copyright-owned publications for worldwide access in HathiTrust. They used HathiTrust’s Creative Commons Declaration Form (CCDF) to apply Creative Commons licenses to the volumes. Our talk will focus on how UC librarians can use the HathiTrust’s CCDF to open targeted sets of volumes for world wide access.


Emily Lin at UC Merced will discuss her project to open over 1,000 volumes of UC Agriculture and Natural Resource (UC ANR) publications. Amy Butros at UC San Diego will discuss her process to open over 500 volumes of Scripps Institution of Oceanography publications. Renata Ewing at CDL will discuss CDL’s role in supporting this work, including developing a generalized workflow and sharing strategies that UC librarians might to use to find and compile subsets of UC-rights held content from HathiTrust corpus that may be opened using the CCDF.

Presentation

Descriptive metadata can become problematic when historical, cultural, or hierarchical context is disassociated from the archival object, with implications for discovery, interpretation, and the role and responsibility of the library, archive, or museum providing access to archival content. As archival materials become increasingly accessible in digital form, we find ourselves also challenged with addressing legacy descriptions influenced by creator or collector’s biases, or cultural (in)sensitivities and perspectives that don’t align with contemporary approaches and aspirations.

In this session, panelists will present on a variety of challenges we have encountered while confronting problematic legacy metadata in our collections as well as opportunities for adopting inclusivity in metadata approaches moving forward.
Please note: Join us at 11:15-11:45am for a discussion session. We will dive into a facilitated discussion for all participants to think deeply about such questions as: How can we achieve inclusive metadata? What challenges arise as/if we amend inherited descriptions? How can we enhance metadata practices to better articulate context for our collection materials? How do we remediate metadata without inadvertently erasing evidence of historical bias recorded in our collections? And finally, how might our discussion open opportunities to continue sharing insights and approaches, perhaps even developing common best practices?

NOTE: 2-part session - panel, then discussion after break

In this session, we will dive into a facilitated discussion for all participants to think deeply about such questions as: How can we achieve inclusive metadata? What challenges arise as/if we amend inherited descriptions? How can we enhance metadata practices to better articulate context for our collection materials? How do we remediate metadata without inadvertently erasing evidence of historical bias recorded in our collections? And finally, how might our discussion open opportunities to continue sharing insights and approaches, perhaps even developing common best practices?
Descriptive metadata can become problematic when historical, cultural, or hierarchical context is disassociated from the archival object, with implications for discovery, interpretation, and the role and responsibility of the library, archive, or museum providing access to archival content. As archival materials become increasingly accessible in digital form, we find ourselves also challenged with addressing legacy descriptions influenced by creator or collector’s biases, or cultural (in)sensitivities and perspectives that don’t align with contemporary approaches and aspirations.
Please note: This discussion follows panelist session presenting on a variety of challenges we have encountered while confronting problematic legacy metadata in our collections as well as opportunities for adopting inclusivity in metadata approaches moving forward. All participants are welcome to attend; it is not required to attend the earlier panel session.