A LIFE WELL LIVED: LOOKING BACKWARDS AND

FORWARDS AND SIDEWAYS TOO: EXPLORING THE FULL LIFECYCLE OF

INSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AT YOUR LIBRARY

Georgetown University

NISO WEBINAR  

MARCH 2018

SALWA ISMAIL

NISO WEBINAR 2018 GEORGETOWN UNIVERS ITY

SPEAKERS

Head, Library Information Technology

Entire lifecycle of scholarship from a digital

perspective through the lens of an institutional

repository (IR)

Launch 2009 -2011 - Like many, traditional IRs

- Faculty Scholarship, Student Scholarship,

Publications

Open Educational Resources (OERs), digital

rights education

Waited…

2nd wind in 2011

Scholarly service to other libraries, centers,

units

Other resources -- custom databases from

grants, working papers, student scholarship,

publications -- unexplored because they didn’t

scope

A new perspective on the service

Digital collections arm continued, the scholarly

communications morphed

WHERE DO WE START...

No dumping ground; digital resources curated,

but accept a more holistic view of scholarly

resources -- open access focus yet include

controlled access options

No mandate from University for faculty

Scholarly communication -- beyond

traditionally published articles, manuscripts,

book chapters

Bibliographic citation database -- case

dependent

Referrals from Main Campus IT, Research

Services, Departments

User perspective - one stop (well for a few

corpora)-- seamless access

Relevance

Internal and external workflows --

depositors and library staff

DSpace platform (V5.8)

Assign and automate workflows after

deposit, so they can move seamlessly in

the pipeline and be tracked -- copyright,

compliance, embargoes, cover sheets,

metadata, online publishing and author

notification.

Citations collections-- integrated with

our electronic resources for controlled

access

GU360 - SalesForce integration with

faculty and graduate student profiles

Automated Workflows

Twofold integration

ORCID ID links out

ORCID profile push out to the repository

Github code

<https://github.com/Georgetown-

University-Libraries/>

Reporting on unique ORCIDs in the

repository

Integrations

ORCID

Sherpa/Romeo Publishers’ policy

database

Shows contextual copyright policy

Submission upload step for item --

recognized journals

Not perfect, but copyright librarian it’s a

step forward.

Integrations

SHERPA/RoMEO

Publish through the Library

3 options-- Open to all; GU Community; No

One

Expanded beyond ETDs to other published

content

ETD automated, and others it’s a radio

selection.

Open Access - streaming media, MOOCs with

OERs, Video/Media capstones

Login in through Shibboleth; parsed by school

-Law, Med, Main

Integrations

Embargoes -- Access Control

Non-textual assets, MOOCs, lectures,

events on campus, interviews

ShareStream services / evaluating

Panapto

Automated, type = audio/video, frame

embedded

Access control -- public or GU community

Expand the scope of scholarly resources

Integrations

Streaming Services

Proprietary -- Summon (OneSearch),

harvests selected collections

Integrations from AS → DG → OneSearch

Automated push from AS → DG, making

finding aids more discoverable

Facets in Summon/OneSearch for location

“digital collections”

Integrations

Discovery Layer & ArchiveSpace

Format for embedding metadata

(“structured data”) into HTML

content

Used with Schema.org vocabulary

(microdata vs. JSON-LD)

Helps search engines better

understand and display website

content

Maximize discovery and display of

DigitalGeorgetown items in

Google search results

Expand existing use of microdata

in DigitalGeorgetown

Discovery and Access (Schema.org/Microtags)

Select communities/collections to add

microdata

Identify the types of items in each

Select appropriate schemas from

https://schema.org/docs/full.html

Content-based (ScholarlyArticle, Book)

Structural (Website, Breadcrumb)

Map DG Dublin Core fields to schema

properties

Update DSpace code to generate

JSON-LD markup for both simple and

full item record pages

Discovery and Access (Schema.org/Microtags)

Discovery and Access (Schema.org/Microtags)

Discovery and Access (Schema.org/Microtags)

Digital preservation

Developed automated tools --

bitstream/item and metadata upload

GitHub open source

NDSR -LoC-IMLS Resident for the project

→ > 1TB of material in dark archive

DG → APT

eTags in metadata back in DG

Academic Preservation Trust

ASSESSMENT

Several data sources: streaming

application, DSpace, Google

Analytics

Equal assessment and

comparison (DLF's Best Practices

for Google Analytics in Digital

Libraries)

Top 10 questions asked and Top 10

things to showcase

Data Dashboard with the

congregated statistics

Referrals

THANK YOU!DIGITALSCHOLARSHIP@GEORGETOWN .EDU