Clemson IT/Digital Priorities Emily Gore, Head of Digital Curation and Technology Services, CU Libraries egore@clemson.edu
Priorities (1/3) Program Building Digital Initiatives – late start on building a digitization program, but not all bad at being last out the gate; EAD conversion grant Digital Preservation – MetaArchive, Open LOCKSS network member, development of written digital preservation plan, goal to participate in development community Attempting to hire staff to meet goals of unit and to retrain current staff
Priorities (2/3) Building Collaborations On-campus – Campus IT; Cyberinfrastructure Division; Open Parks Grid; Internal Library education Off-campus – South Carolina Digital Library regional scan center; MetaArchive Grants – IMLS Connecting to Collections statewide survey; partner in NEH grant application to preserve digital newspapers
Priorities (3/3) Future Planning Repository building – aren’t we all in this business? Fedora repository planned in collaboration with campus IT – to include digitized objects, born-digital publications, etc. and datasets – i.e. Intelligent River Aligning staffing and funding with priorities – obviously easier said than done
Questions? If there is time, what do people think of the OCLC/OAISTER deal? In particular the terms and conditions of submission?