The Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (RDSA) team (Lisa Spiro, Monica Rivero, Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Sid Byrd and Ying Jin) has been working on a range of exciting projects, often in collaboration with others in Fondren or across campus.
These include:
- soon-to-debut collections such as the Rice Teaching Archive and undergraduate theses (focusing initially on history)
- support for the Rice Historical Review, an undergraduate journal set to publish its first issue in April
- assisting with the implementation of Converis, the new faculty information system. We are developing a workflow to make it easier for faculty to contribute their articles to the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive under the Rice open access policy.
- collaborating with the Jones School’s Business Wisdom on an initiative to raise the visibility of faculty research and make available underlying publications
- working with Public Affairs to develop a workflow for providing access to publications mentioned in press releases
- experimenting with using social media to promote RDSA collections
- helping to address link rot (essentially, the disappearance of web pages) by becoming a registrar for perma.cc
- improving search in RDSA
- supporting the representation of math equations using MathML
- providing access to Rice-sponsored publications such as Sarmatian Review
- making improvements to our Electronic Theses and Dissertations collection, including digitizing around 1400 masters theses previously missing from our collections (soon to be added to RDSA)
- working on implementing Vireo 3, the newest version of the software used by Rice graduate students to submit their theses and dissertations
- preserving content in RDSA using DuraSpace
- customizing the user interface for RDSA
- experimenting with OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) to link up audio/video recordings and transcripts or keywords
- developing a plugin to enable content to be harvested from RDSA and presented in Omeka, which offers a flexible user interface and rich plugins
Please see the attached slides from today’s Brown Bag for more information. Feel free to contact us at cds@rice.edu or lspiro@rice.edu with any questions or ideas for potential projects.