DLF Forum 2018

Presentations
 
Sharing the work of sharing research: Harvard Library’s Distributed IR Deposit program.
Colin B. Lukens
Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication, United States of America
 
In 2016, the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) launched a collaborative project to recruit help from around the university to deposit articles in Harvard’s open-access repository. This presentation will give an overview of the project, discuss its benefits and challenges, and outline workflow changes made to DSpace.
 
 
Migrating and Modeling Geospatial Repository Resources
James Griffin, Eliot Jordan
Princeton University Library, United States of America
 
Throughout early 2018, the Princeton University Library has had the opportunity to migrate their cultural heritage object repository to a newly redesigned architecture. While migration for digitized books and manuscripts has been more straightforward, this presentation explores the difficulties found in migrating scanned maps and geospatial data sets.
 
 
Let it ROAR: Expanding University of Houston’s Open Access Services
Annie Wu, Santi Thompson, Taylor Davis-Van Atta, Anne Washington, Bethany Scott, Xiping Liu
University of Houston, United States of America
 
Details the University of Houston’s expansion of open access services to a platform called Cougar Research Open Access Repositories (ROAR): a portal to the UH Institutional Repository (UHIR) and the UH Data Repository (UHDR). The project team’s phased activities can be beneficial to those promoting new modes of scholarly communication.