DLF Forum 2017

Presentations
 
Expanding the Institutional Repository Mission: Innovating with Linked Data for NASA Digital Curation
Adrienne Hieb(1,2), Matthew Pearson(1,3), Mitchell Shelton(1,3)
1: NASA Goddard Library, United States of America; 2: Cadence Group, Inc., United States of America; 3: ZAI, Inc., United States of America
 
This presentation will focus on how the NASA Goddard Library established the need for a NASA-focused linked data missions thesaurus, the careful process of domain analysis and vocabulary development, and its role in aiding future digital curation efforts as their institutional repository grows with new collections.
 
 
Curation is Not a Place: Post-Custodial Stewardship for a Do-It-Yourself World
Stephen Abrams
California Digital Library
 
Within the digital curation arena, libraries face strong competition from often-free commercial and commodity alternatives. Acceptance of a post-custodial model of stewardship, centered on *knowing* about, rather than necessarily *holding* content, provides a way for libraries to take best advantage of the reality of today’s highly dispersed information environment.
 
 
Practical tools and techniques for verifying public domain serial literature
John Mark Ockerbloom
University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
 
We are developing new data sources and procedures to make it easier for libraries to find and verify public domain serial content from most of the 20th century. Hear what's available and what's coming, and discuss how to use these resources to share your historic serial content with the public.
 
 
Engagement, Innovation and Outcomes: Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library
Jill Rogers
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 
“Off the Grid” is an employee program that provides Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library staff with an opportunity to generate and develop innovative ideas related to QUT Library business. This presentation will overview “Off the Grid”, highlight outcomes and discuss my role as Service Manager for QUT Digital Collections.
 
 
Archiving #BLM at UTSA
Kristin Law, Julianna Barrera-Gomez
University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America
 
What does it mean to archive a course? Join archivists from the University of Texas at San Antonio as we discuss balancing creator expectations with archival practice in order to preserve and curate the rich multimedia content created for UTSA’s #BlackLivesMatter: Critical Perspectives inaugural class.
 
 
Migrating to a brave new world: Reimplementing and redesigning a geospatial repository with GeoBlacklight
Huda Khan, Darcy Branchini, John Fereira, Keith Jenkins, Alan McCarty
Cornell University, United States of America
 
Cornell University is migrating CUGIR (Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository) to a new architecture that uses GeoBlacklight and GeoServer. We used usability testing to inform the design of the front-end. We present our approach to this redesign, lessons learned, and future plans.