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Technical Features and Infrastructure
- Something about moving Migrated all servers to virtual machines ?and increased capacity.
- Migrated help and moderation arXiv admin interactions from email to a ticketing system.Started modifying the email handling system to support arXiv admin and moderation ticketing system
- Gathered requirements list to improve tools and interfaces to support moderators in interacting more directly and efficiently with the arXiv system and administrators. Started work on improvements.
- Reviewed use of and experience with the Data Conservancy pilot, which ended in March 2013 (see a summary of our conclusions). We will continue to support modest sized datasets and other materials using the existing ancillary files mechanism and will ingest data from the pilot as ancillary files to support it long-term.
h5. Governance, Communication, & Organizational Model
* Created an interim Scientific Director position to bring in scientific expertise to Cornell's arXiv team and to provide intellectual leadership for arXiv's operation. We are in the process of recruiting an interim Scientific Director in order to test and further refine this position.
* Established a Member Advisory Board (MAB) to represent participating institutions' interests and advises CUL on issues related to repository management and development, standards implementation, interoperability, development priorities, business planning, and outreach and advocacy. Representation on MAB is reserved for libraries, research institutions, laboratories, and foundations that are members of arXiv and that contribute to the financial support of the service. The detail the goals, composition, operation, and election of the Board.
* Created bylaws for the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to describe the group's goals, composition, operation, and member election process.
* Started posting a roadmap (2013 & 2014) to bring further transparency to arXiv team's goals and priorities, especially for SAB and MAB members to help them understand the vision, priorities, and challenges to be able to contribute to the arXiv's governance. - Held an annual meeting for SAB and MAB. The discussion topics included: budget review, IT development priorities, moderation tools and policies, Scientific Director position, arXiv reserve policy, fund raising strategies.
- Developed a set of procedures for describing how arXiv reserve funds can be used
- Created a Library Guide
- Continued the dialogue with a group of publishers/societies that are interested in Cornell's sustainability planning efforts to discuss the emerging mandates for open access and ideas for collaboration.
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