DSpace updates- 1/18/19

Here’s a happy headline for 2019: The Scholarly Communications Assistant position has been posted! Take a look at the position description. The candidate hired will serve as the IR’s primary manager, and will report to @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed) . Knowing that the IR will be supported by a full time staffer committed to its upkeep and enhancement has shaped the course of the IR Services and IR Metadata group’s work, allowing us to be a bit more ambitious in our first-stage plans and letting us plan for workflows and metadata strategies that are a bit more complex.

Project Progress:

The Services group is still drafting policy, but we’ve settled on a tentative structure for the repository’s collections and communities. The Metadata group has finalized its MAP (metadata application profile), which will apply to each of these communities and collections, as well as to each material type the repository will contain. Now that this work is complete, the technical team, consisting of @Gabe Galson and @Chin U. Kim, will begin another round of back-end enhancements, implementing features like controlled vocabularies and ORCID integration. Over the next few months these enhancements will be implemented while the other two groups move ever-closer to the completion of their core tasks.