J. WILLARD MARRIOTT LIBRARY Preserving, Promoting and Presenting Research Posters: USpace’s New Poster Archiving Service Lisa Chaufty Western CONTENTdm

J. WILLARD MARRIOTT LIBRARY

Preserving, Promoting and Presenting Research Posters:

USpace’s New Poster Archiving Service

Lisa ChauftyWestern CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting

June 4, 2010


Context


What is the purpose of an institutional repository? “. . .a set of services that a university offers to the members of its

community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution. . .it is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.” (Lynch, 2003 as quoted in Bram, 2009).


Is what we’re giving what they want?• Set of services

• Stewardship• Preservation• Access

• Do creators see these as a real services?• Not necessarily.

• Lack of faculty engagement • “We built it but they didn’t come.”

• Traditional methods of access remain.• Subscriptions paid for by the library


How do we give them what they want?• Find new ways to provide value added services to

our scholars and creators.

• Straddle two worlds:– Preservation (“Static”)– Service (“Active”)


Archiving with relevance to faculty…


One Response


Research posters…why?• Important vehicle for sharing scholarly work• Posters are the majority of presentations at some

larger national conferences.– 40,000+ calls for posters in the past year*

• Presented nationally as well as locally– Faculty and students

• Require a significant amount of time and resources to create

*Google search 5/23/2010 on “call for posters” limited by date range 5/23/09-5/23/10.


USpace’s Poster Archiving Service


USpace + Trapeze Media Solutions• Trapeze Media Solutions

– Recent start-up by a former graduate student at the University of Utah

– Provide poster conversion services for USpace.• PDFs or PowerPoint slides submitted to USpace are converted by

the vendor to an interactive Flash file.– Trapeze Interactive Poster– Viewable in any browser, but require Adobe Flash Player 10

• USpace links to poster content on vendor’s server.• Raw content is maintained on secure server with vendor.

– Our content will be furnished to us if we leave vendor


Benefits to campus creators and the library• Research posters are preserved and presented in an

attractive and interactive format.• Library service contributes a new type of knowledge

product.• How can I best represent the concepts displayed in my poster?• Would a video flesh out this idea more?

• Library could have role in supporting virtual poster presentations.


Having a Role in Creation


What’s Next?


Outreach challenges• Develop library liaison relations to departments.

• ARL report: “Positioning Liaison Librarians for the 21st Century.” August, 2009.

• Find more connections to departments who could benefit from this service; who value the research poster as a scholarly product to be preserved.

• We need to do the research!– Study department Web sites to learn more about what they value as a

department in terms of scholarship.

• Develop opportunities for virtual presentation.


Technical challenges• Train vendor to batch upload URLs through Project Client.

• The vendor currently uploads manually through web interface. Scalability will become an issue as we get more submissions.

• Press vendor to add a search function to our virtual poster wall and to each poster in the collection.

• Redesign USpace website to feature posters more prominently.

• Ascertain if it is possible to serve posters up natively with Clip-imp.


References, IBankier, Jean-Gabriel, 2010. “Digital Repositories at a Crossroads: Achieving

Sustainable Success through Campus-wide Engagement.” Accessed at http://works.bepress.com/jean_gabriel_bankier/8/.

“Female Science Professor” (pseudonym), 2010. “The Conference Poster Child, ” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Accessed at http://chronicle.com/article/The-Conference-Poster-Child/63810/.

Hahn, Karla. “Introduction: Positioning Liaison Librarians for the 21st century,” Research Library Issues (RLI), no. 265 (August 2009): 1-2. Accessed at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/rli-265.pdf

Kirchner, Joy. “Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles,” RLI, no. 265 (August 2009): 22-32. Accessed at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/rli-265.pdf.


References, 2Lynch, Clifford A. “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship

in the Digital Age” ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. Accessed at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml

Luyten, Bram. “The Institutional Repository in 2010. . .and beyond,” paper submitted to the Online Information Conference, 2009 (December 2009): 1-10.

Zupko, Andrew J. and DuVall, Scott L., 2009. “Preserving Academic Poster Content.” Accessed at http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/ir-main,39504.


Questions?

Please contact me if you would like more information!

Lisa ChauftyIR CoordinatorJ. Willard Marriott [email protected]

801-585-3101

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