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June 27, 2015

Agenda

• Announcements and updates from group
• SHARE update and CHORUS introduction
• eCommons upgrade update
• IR subgroup update
• Discussion: facilitating "communication"

Summary Minutes

Announcements and updates (all)

• Danielle:
  
  • Hydra group will present to CUL soon. Exploratory work on integrating some of the collections (Shared Shelf, Kaltura, DLXS) has been successful. Ideally will have unified front end for digital collections (in Blacklight to dovetail with D&A) that allows robust search. Continuing to work on incorporating/supporting contextual pages for each collection.
  • We are not working on the Johnson Museum collections; they're going with eMuseum, which they will support.
  • Luna is being deaccessioned.
• Dean: We are an IIIF founding sponsor. Jenn: working with in house code for making this work. Need to push back on ArtStor, since they're still in demo on it.
• Gail: working with Zsuzsa to get stories out about http://blogs.cornell.edu/publicaccesshelp/. This is in support of new funding requirements.

SHARE update and CHORUS introduction (Gail Steinhart and Wendy Kozlowski)

• Gail attended f2f meeting of SHARE working group (http://www.share-research.org/)
• SHARE was planned to be a federated search engine on research outputs that are federally funded, and it still is, but IRs haven't contributed as much as anticipated.
• SHARE Notify puts out a constant stream of (sometimes messy) data from CRossRef, arXiv, IRs. Plan to develop curatorial systems to provide clean data to the registry.
• SHARE working groups
  • moving data from campus to SHARE (and possibly back again?)
  • another looking at providing information to funding agencies
  • Gail is on a working group looking at interoperability with VIVO
• There's a group (IRIS) looking at using data to demonstrate the impact of research on the university. IRIS may tackle the stories around the data, while SHARE tackles the data.
• Wendy talked about CHORUS (http://www.chorusaccess.org/)
  
  • Strictly related to publications response; not handling data.
  • Over 100 publishers participate, have built another data store using CrossRef metadata, and author-supplied funder metadata.
  • This will then be searchable, but they're only using metadata, not supplying the publications themselves.
  • Questions about whether CHORUS is actually "free", or will costs be passed along to libraries via subscriptions, licensing etc.
• Gail: there was questions in SHARE about rights to metadata. In order to participate, you need to put your metadata under the CC0 licenses. Questions about whether abstracts are copyrighted. Peter indicated they might pull back on that requirement; we may only need to assert that the metadata is sharable.

eCommons upgrade update (David Ruddy)

• DSpace upgrade happened the July 13th 
  
  • v1.8 to 5.2
  • continuing to work on small improvements and bugs
• Improved features include:
  • responsive front end (thank you Melissa), better search capability,eEmbeddable AV viewer, versioning for datasets
• Moved to a new URL. (ecommons.cornell.edu)
• Talking to Weill about their desired repository solution, which may be eCommons - details yet to be worked out
  
  • Discussion about "What is eCommons?" Is it a set of specific services? Is there policy integrity? Weill may want more autonomy. RepoExec is an appropriate group to address that question.
• Evan @RMC: patrons are using it, having some trouble with phrased searching. Asking for specific issues, so they can be sent along to eCommons admins

IR subgroup update (Jim DelRosso)

• Bepress recommendation to LEG was to not accept offer
• Working in JIRA but will create output useful to larger group for review and feedback
• Starting with User Stories to create features needed in Hydra/Sufia based system, but also need to consider infrastructure, sustainability, etc.

Discussion: facilitating “communication” (all)

• Group will share agendas ahead of meeting, minutes will be posted to public Wiki, both will be announced on CU-LIB.
• Will accept agenda item requests via email to Wendy, and also create a spot on the Wiki for this
• Wendy raised the questions of sharing minutes/agenda
• Wendy: do we need to broader communications?
• Dean: Schedule broader presentations for specific topics
  • Use forums such as R&O and Metadata Working Group

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June 22, 2015 Agenda

1. IR subgroup update: It has been a very interesting month for the IR subgroup, as events of the last several weeks have led to alterations in our original mission and timeline. Specifically, bepress put forth an offer for a campus-wide Digital Commons contract, and LEG weighed in on strategies for system evaluation and the CUL's move to Hydra. Discussion will focus not just on these events, but where the subgroup is headed for the next months.
2. Member updates: An opportunity will be given for committee members to communicate what they've been working on.

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