Hitting the Road Towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testing DAMS at University of Houston Libraries.

Since 2009, tens of thousands of rare and unique items have been made available online for research through the University of Houston (UH) Digital Library. Six years later, the UH Libraries' new digital initiatives call for a more dynamic digital repository infrastructure that is extensible, scalabl...

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Publicado en:Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 5 - 19
Autores principales: Wu, Annie, Thompson, Santi, Vacek, Rachel, Watkins, Sean, Weidner, Andrew
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Library Association Jun2016
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          Wu, Annie
          Thompson, Santi
          Vacek, Rachel
          Watkins, Sean
          Weidner, Andrew
        affil: Head of Metadata and Digitization Services, University of Houston Libraries
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          Libraries, Academic Texas
          Information Management
          Electronic Publications
          Product Evaluation
          Texas
          Software
          Access to Information
          Costs and Cost Analysis
          User-Computer Interface
          Systems Implementation
      ab: Since 2009, tens of thousands of rare and unique items have been made available online for research through the University of Houston (UH) Digital Library. Six years later, the UH Libraries' new digital initiatives call for a more dynamic digital repository infrastructure that is extensible, scalable, and interoperable. The UH Libraries' mission and the mandate of its strategic directions drives the pursuit of seamless access and expanded digital collections. To answer the calls for technological change, the UH Libraries administration appointed a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) Implementation Task Force to explore, evaluate, test, recommend, and implement a more robust digital asset management system. This article focuses on the task force's DAMS selection activities: needs assessment, systems evaluation, and systems testing. The authors also describe the task force's DAMS recommendation based on the evaluation and testing data analysis, a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each system, and system cost. Finally, the authors outline their DAMS implementation strategy comprised of a phased rollout with the following stages: system installation, data migration, and interface development.
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