This presentation was provided by Salwa Ismail of Georgetown University during the NISO webinar, Library as Publisher, Part Two, held on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

1. A LIFE WELL LIVED:
LOOKING BACKWARDS AND
FORWARDS AND SIDEWAYS TOO:
EXPLORING THE FULL LIFECYCLE OF
INSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION AT YOUR LIBRARY
Georgetown University
NISO WEBINAR
MARCH 2018

2. SALWA ISMAIL
NISO WEBINAR 2018 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
SPEAKERS
Head, Library Information Technology

3. Entire lifecycle of scholarship from a digital
perspective through the lens of an institutional
repository (IR)
Launch 2009 -2011 - Like many, traditional IRs
- Faculty Scholarship, Student Scholarship,
Publications
Open Educational Resources (OERs), digital
rights education
Waited…
2nd wind in 2011
Scholarly service to other libraries, centers,
units
Other resources -- custom databases from
grants, working papers, student scholarship,
publications -- unexplored because they didn’t
scope
A new perspective on the service
Digital collections arm continued, the scholarly
communications morphed
WHERE DO WE START...

4. No dumping ground; digital resources curated,
but accept a more holistic view of scholarly
resources -- open access focus yet include
controlled access options
No mandate from University for faculty
Scholarly communication -- beyond
traditionally published articles, manuscripts,
book chapters
Bibliographic citation database -- case
dependent
Referrals from Main Campus IT, Research
Services, Departments
User perspective - one stop (well for a few
corpora)-- seamless access
Relevance

5. Internal and external workflows --
depositors and library staff
DSpace platform (V5.8)
Assign and automate workflows after
deposit, so they can move seamlessly in
the pipeline and be tracked -- copyright,
compliance, embargoes, cover sheets,
metadata, online publishing and author
notification.
Citations collections-- integrated with
our electronic resources for controlled
access
GU360 - SalesForce integration with
faculty and graduate student profiles
Automated Workflows

6. Twofold integration
ORCID ID links out
ORCID profile push out to the repository
Github code
<https://github.com/Georgetown-
University-Libraries/>
Reporting on unique ORCIDs in the
repository
Integrations
ORCID

7. Sherpa/Romeo Publishers’ policy
database
Shows contextual copyright policy
Submission upload step for item --
recognized journals
Not perfect, but copyright librarian it’s a
step forward.
Integrations
SHERPA/RoMEO

8. Publish through the Library
3 options-- Open to all; GU Community; No
One
Expanded beyond ETDs to other published
content
ETD automated, and others it’s a radio
selection.
Open Access - streaming media, MOOCs with
OERs, Video/Media capstones
Login in through Shibboleth; parsed by school
-Law, Med, Main
Integrations
Embargoes -- Access Control

9. Non-textual assets, MOOCs, lectures,
events on campus, interviews
ShareStream services / evaluating
Panapto
Automated, type = audio/video, frame
embedded
Access control -- public or GU community
Expand the scope of scholarly resources
Integrations
Streaming Services

10. Proprietary -- Summon (OneSearch),
harvests selected collections
Integrations from AS → DG → OneSearch
Automated push from AS → DG, making
finding aids more discoverable
Facets in Summon/OneSearch for location
“digital collections”
Integrations
Discovery Layer & ArchiveSpace

11. Format for embedding metadata
(“structured data”) into HTML
content
Used with Schema.org vocabulary
(microdata vs. JSON-LD)
Helps search engines better
understand and display website
content
Maximize discovery and display of
DigitalGeorgetown items in
Google search results
Expand existing use of microdata
in DigitalGeorgetown
Discovery and Access (Schema.org/Microtags)

12. Select communities/collections to add
microdata
Identify the types of items in each
Select appropriate schemas from
https://schema.org/docs/full.html
Content-based (ScholarlyArticle, Book)
Structural (Website, Breadcrumb)
Map DG Dublin Core fields to schema
properties
Update DSpace code to generate
JSON-LD markup for both simple and
full item record pages
Discovery and Access (Schema.org/Microtags)

13. Discovery and Access
(Schema.org/Microtags)

14. Discovery and Access
(Schema.org/Microtags)

15. Digital preservation
Developed automated tools --
bitstream/item and metadata upload
GitHub open source
NDSR -LoC-IMLS Resident for the project
→ > 1TB of material in dark archive
DG → APT
eTags in metadata back in DG
Academic Preservation Trust

16. ASSESSMENT
Several data sources: streaming
application, DSpace, Google
Analytics
Equal assessment and
comparison (DLF's Best Practices
for Google Analytics in Digital
Libraries)
Top 10 questions asked and Top 10
things to showcase
Data Dashboard with the
congregated statistics
Referrals

17. THANK YOU!
DIGITALSCHOLARSHIP@GEORGETOWN.EDU