Repository Management Relationship: Collection Manager, Metadata Specialist
Demographics / User Characteristics
- Library staff or student assistant
- May work with Academic Department Program Mediator and/or Student Submitter to complete workflow
- Supports repository ingest workflows such as ETD submissions, faculty scholarship submissions, or campus materials
- Not a content creator
- Familiar with repository ingest workflows and interfaces
- Varied levels of familiarity with underlying repository architecture
Frequency and Type of Repository Deposit Use
- Daily
- Self-Deposit / Staff Deposit (for proxy work)
General Motivators / Goals
- Usher self-deposited materials through full deposit process
- Augment scholarship available in repository and visible on faculty profiles
- Ensure proper submission of material by submitters
Key Deposit Tasks
- Move harvested content and metadata into deposit workflow
- Perform proxy deposit for harvested publications
- Edit or augment metadata of self-deposits in accordance with local standards
- Evaluate self-deposits for copyright adherence
- Route self-deposits to mediators
- Approve self-deposits for ingest
- Host workshops surrounding self-deposit and provide support to self-depositors
Repository Content / Information Desired
- Campus shared data feeds
- Guidance on local metadata entry standards
- Access to local vocabulary terms and thesauri
- Status and progress notifications for material being ingested
- Verification of successful uploads and ingests
- Audit trail / log of deposit activity in workflow
Type of Material Deposited
- Textual information (from students/faculty - PDF, MS Office formats)
- Still images, video, research data (from students/faculty) - regular and increasing
- Research data (from students/faculty) - infrequent, but increase expected. Sometimes accompanying publication, sometimes standalone
- Other/complex objects (from students/faculty) - rare, but increase anticipated
Library/Unit Interactions
- Library Deposit Supervisor supports all schools on campus