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What are people using?

  • ShareShelf
    • better for cataloging and art history
    • great for images
    • those inside the instituation can see content uploaded
  • ShareShelf Commons
    • Uploaded items can be published externally
  • DSpace
    • Updates regularly, making it difficult to customize when it comes time to upgrade to new version
    • Difficult with API because it keeps changing
  • Hydra in a Box
  • Fedora
    • Difficult with API because it keeps changing
    • Humanities commons is possibly a fedora database
  • Digital Commons
    • Allows publishing
    • Better for smaller schools
  • Greenstone
  • Islandora
    • Maybe moving to digital commons
  • DSpace and Symplectic Elements
    • Amanda uses at Virginia Tech
    • Allows professors to show what they’ve done and then it is uploaded directly into DSpace
  • Institutional vs. Subject Repositories
    • MIT has 44% of faculty publications which is a high number
    • Researchers are more aligned with their field than the institution they work for, so they’re more likely to use the subject repositories
    • Faculty is more likely to use for-profit and subject based repositories
    • SSRN is now for-profit
  • Patrick does Omeka S Beta demonstration
    • What’s different?
      • Stops people from putting htmls in description which helps with metadata
      • Media tab will now allow all types of media
      • Arbitrary html will get its own spot, which will make it easier for developers to post from across the web
      • Huge list of properties is cleaned up
      • Ability to add sites, each with their own modules and themes
    • When will it be out of beta
      • Hopefully by fall semester
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Wikis and Wikithons

Transcribed by: Hope Gillespie

  • There is a widespread perception that Wikipedia isn’t a “trustworthy” source
    • But crowdsourcing is helping
  • Initially, anyone could edit
    • They took on a group of editors
    • NOT primary source driven,  must be able to cite source of information
  • Wiki ambassadors
    • Can train students to edit pages
  • Editing
    • If the format exists already, It’s easy to follow
  • VisualEditor
    • Gives you the ability to edit, but you must have an account and you can only work on one at a time
  • Wikipedia Tutorial
  • Adam Lewis ( DC Wiki Ambassador)
  • Sandboxes
    • Not meant to be permanent, low risk
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