元数据、中间件、使命：机构知识库之旅.pptx

1、,Computers in Libraries March 19,2026,Metadata,Middleware,Mission:The Institutional Repository Journey at Howard University Libraries,Kimberly Prosper,Science&Engineering Librarian,Howard University Libraries,Repository Evaluation Committee Member,Qaddafi Sabree,Emerging Technologies Librarian,Howar

2、d University Libraries,Project Lead for the Repository Evaluation Team,What Well Cover Today,01,The Mission,The Universitys overall mission.,02,The Reason,The problem we were trying to solve.,03,The Evaluation Process,How we evaluated the platforms.,04,The Findings,The ImplementationSteps to impleme

3、nt.,05,Issues needed to be addressed.,06,The Final Verdict,Discussions and negotiations.,The Mission,The mission of Howard University Libraries is to support excellence in learning,scholarship,innovation,and service in a user-centered environment as we preserve the black experience.,Why We Needed A

4、Repository,The Reason,Scattered and Hard to Find,Faculty research was scattered across personal websites,shared drives,and email threads with no single place to find it.,Credit Where Its Due,We had no easy way to track how often our facultys work was being read,cited,or used by others.,Student These

5、s&Dissertations,Graduating students research needed a permanent and searchable home.,Preserving Unique Materials,Reports,community archives,and cultural materials were at real risk of being lost over time.,Room to Grow,Our collections and content types were expanding,and we needed a platform that co

6、uld scale with us.,How We Went About It,01,We AskedOur Peers,Called up librarians at similar institutions who had already done this and asked them the hard questions,02,03,04,We Ran aFormal Process,Issued an RFP and evaluated vendors through demos and sandbox testing.,We Brought InCampus IT,Partnere