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Building Oregon's new website makes the news

A new website developed by OSU Libraries highlights the architecture of the Pacific Northwest and offers a wealth of photos and information about historically significant buildings in Oregon. Buildingoregon.org is a digital library that includes a collection of thousands of images of more than 5,000 cultural and historic properties. 

The website has certainly caught the attention of area news organizations, and Building Oregon has been featured in news stories in Portland's Oregonian newspaper, the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Eugene's Register-Guard newspaper, the Daily Journal of Commerce -- Oregon and KMTR-TV news.

OSU Libraries developed the website that makes the University of Oregon’s Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest collection accessible to users on smart phones and other mobile devices. Building Oregon uses a map-based interface to allow people to search for buildings by location and retrieve related images and information. Many photos in the collection represent cultural heritage sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

“This grant project is a terrific example of ongoing collaboration between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon,” according to Faye A. Chadwell, Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and OSU Press Director. “It leverages our respective strengths within each library to enhance access to important cultural content. Of course, I am especially pleased with OSU’s development work on this project as we’ve created an open technical framework for other cultural heritage entities such as museums, archives and presses to use to reach wider audiences.”

The development of the Building Oregon website was supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services Technology Act and administered by the Oregon State Library. The open source code for this application is available via GitHub.

 

See the Eugene Register-Guard news article at "OU, OSU join forces to produce Web app that brings Oregon history alive." 


Building Oregon's new website makes the news

A new website developed by OSU Libraries highlights the architecture of the Pacific Northwest and offers a wealth of photos and information about historically significant buildings in Oregon. Buildingoregon.org is a digital library that includes a collection of thousands of images of more than 5,000 cultural and historic properties. 

The website has certainly caught the attention of area news organizations, and Building Oregon has been featured in news stories in Portland's Oregonian newspaper, the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Eugene's Register-Guard newspaper, the Daily Journal of Commerce -- Oregon and KMTR-TV news.

OSU Libraries developed the website that makes the University of Oregon’s Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest collection accessible to users on smart phones and other mobile devices. Building Oregon uses a map-based interface to allow people to search for buildings by location and retrieve related images and information. Many photos in the collection represent cultural heritage sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

“This grant project is a terrific example of ongoing collaboration between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon,” according to Faye A. Chadwell, Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and OSU Press Director. “It leverages our respective strengths within each library to enhance access to important cultural content. Of course, I am especially pleased with OSU’s development work on this project as we’ve created an open technical framework for other cultural heritage entities such as museums, archives and presses to use to reach wider audiences.”

The development of the Building Oregon website was supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services Technology Act and administered by the Oregon State Library. The open source code for this application is available via GitHub.

 

See the Eugene Register-Guard news article at "OU, OSU join forces to produce Web app that brings Oregon history alive." 


OSU Libraries and Graduate School Expanding Access to OSU Research Data: Data Management Services for Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Most of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of, how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to learn more about their research data, to promote better data management practices among these and future students, and to improve data management workshops that the library offers.

 

Data management refers to the active management of research data for preservation and access. The Libraries and the Graduate School share a goal to improve data management practices of graduate students and post-docs. Many students already make their data more visible by depositing it alongside their thesis or dissertation; in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository; students are required to deposit a PDF of their thesis or dissertation to the repository. Long term, the Graduate School and Libraries would like to work with graduate students to either deposit their research data alongside the thesis or dissertation in ScholarsArchive@OSU, describe and link to the data from the ScholarsArchive@OSU thesis/dissertation metadata record if the data is available in a disciplinary repository, or provide a description of the data and where it lives.

 

Among the benefits: students and faculty would have a well-organized set of their data and the ability to access it in the future. In many cases, the data associated with the thesis or dissertation is part of a grant. PIs and Co-PIs may be required to produce or otherwise have access to the data after the student graduates. Student research data that is organized, able to be understood by other scientists, and available with a unique and persistent identifier can be reused and built upon, reducing duplication of effort and enhancing scientific inquiry. Finally, student research data is an output of the teaching, learning and research that is conducted at OSU. The data should be valued as such, retained and made available to other researchers here and around the world.

Data management services at OSU, provided by faculty in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS), include providing assistance with writing NSF, NEH and other data management plans; providing individual consultation about metadata, data organization, preservation and sharing; generating and maintaining digital object identifiers for OSU-affiliated data files as a member of EZID; providing training through workshops; and depositing datasets in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository.  For more information: http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/data-services.

OSU Libraries and Graduate School Expanding Access to OSU Research Data: Data Management Services for Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Most of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of, how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to learn more about their research data, to promote better data management practices among these and future students, and to improve data management workshops that the library offers.

 

Data management refers to the active management of research data for preservation and access. The Libraries and the Graduate School share a goal to improve data management practices of graduate students and post-docs. Many students already make their data more visible by depositing it alongside their thesis or dissertation; in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository; students are required to deposit a PDF of their thesis or dissertation to the repository. Long term, the Graduate School and Libraries would like to work with graduate students to either deposit their research data alongside the thesis or dissertation in ScholarsArchive@OSU, describe and link to the data from the ScholarsArchive@OSU thesis/dissertation metadata record if the data is available in a disciplinary repository, or provide a description of the data and where it lives.

 

Among the benefits: students and faculty would have a well-organized set of their data and the ability to access it in the future. In many cases, the data associated with the thesis or dissertation is part of a grant. PIs and Co-PIs may be required to produce or otherwise have access to the data after the student graduates. Student research data that is organized, able to be understood by other scientists, and available with a unique and persistent identifier can be reused and built upon, reducing duplication of effort and enhancing scientific inquiry. Finally, student research data is an output of the teaching, learning and research that is conducted at OSU. The data should be valued as such, retained and made available to other researchers here and around the world.

Data management services at OSU, provided by faculty in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS), include providing assistance with writing NSF, NEH and other data management plans; providing individual consultation about metadata, data organization, preservation and sharing; generating and maintaining digital object identifiers for OSU-affiliated data files as a member of EZID; providing training through workshops; and depositing datasets in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository.  For more information: http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/data-services.

OSU Libraries and Graduate School Expanding Access to OSU Research Data: Data Management Services for Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Most of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of, how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to learn more about their research data, to promote better data management practices among these and future students, and to improve data management workshops that the library offers.

 

Data management refers to the active management of research data for preservation and access. The Libraries and the Graduate School share a goal to improve data management practices of graduate students and post-docs. Many students already make their data more visible by depositing it alongside their thesis or dissertation; in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository; students are required to deposit a PDF of their thesis or dissertation to the repository. Long term, the Graduate School and Libraries would like to work with graduate students to either deposit their research data alongside the thesis or dissertation in ScholarsArchive@OSU, describe and link to the data from the ScholarsArchive@OSU thesis/dissertation metadata record if the data is available in a disciplinary repository, or provide a description of the data and where it lives.

 

Among the benefits: students and faculty would have a well-organized set of their data and the ability to access it in the future. In many cases, the data associated with the thesis or dissertation is part of a grant. PIs and Co-PIs may be required to produce or otherwise have access to the data after the student graduates. Student research data that is organized, able to be understood by other scientists, and available with a unique and persistent identifier can be reused and built upon, reducing duplication of effort and enhancing scientific inquiry. Finally, student research data is an output of the teaching, learning and research that is conducted at OSU. The data should be valued as such, retained and made available to other researchers here and around the world.

Data management services at OSU, provided by faculty in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS), include providing assistance with writing NSF, NEH and other data management plans; providing individual consultation about metadata, data organization, preservation and sharing; generating and maintaining digital object identifiers for OSU-affiliated data files as a member of EZID; providing training through workshops; and depositing datasets in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository.  For more information: http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/data-services.

OSU Libraries and Graduate School Expanding Access to OSU Research Data: Data Management Services for Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Most of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of, how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to learn more about their research data, to promote better data management practices among these and future students, and to improve data management workshops that the library offers.

 

Data management refers to the active management of research data for preservation and access. The Libraries and the Graduate School share a goal to improve data management practices of graduate students and post-docs. Many students already make their data more visible by depositing it alongside their thesis or dissertation; in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository; students are required to deposit a PDF of their thesis or dissertation to the repository. Long term, the Graduate School and Libraries would like to work with graduate students to either deposit their research data alongside the thesis or dissertation in ScholarsArchive@OSU, describe and link to the data from the ScholarsArchive@OSU thesis/dissertation metadata record if the data is available in a disciplinary repository, or provide a description of the data and where it lives.

 

Among the benefits: students and faculty would have a well-organized set of their data and the ability to access it in the future. In many cases, the data associated with the thesis or dissertation is part of a grant. PIs and Co-PIs may be required to produce or otherwise have access to the data after the student graduates. Student research data that is organized, able to be understood by other scientists, and available with a unique and persistent identifier can be reused and built upon, reducing duplication of effort and enhancing scientific inquiry. Finally, student research data is an output of the teaching, learning and research that is conducted at OSU. The data should be valued as such, retained and made available to other researchers here and around the world.

Data management services at OSU, provided by faculty in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS), include providing assistance with writing NSF, NEH and other data management plans; providing individual consultation about metadata, data organization, preservation and sharing; generating and maintaining digital object identifiers for OSU-affiliated data files as a member of EZID; providing training through workshops; and depositing datasets in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository.  For more information: http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/data-services.

OSU Libraries and Graduate School Expanding Access to OSU Research Data: Data Management Services for Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Most of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of, how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to learn more about their research data, to promote better data management practices among these and future students, and to improve data management workshops that the library offers.

 

Data management refers to the active management of research data for preservation and access. The Libraries and the Graduate School share a goal to improve data management practices of graduate students and post-docs. Many students already make their data more visible by depositing it alongside their thesis or dissertation; in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository; students are required to deposit a PDF of their thesis or dissertation to the repository. Long term, the Graduate School and Libraries would like to work with graduate students to either deposit their research data alongside the thesis or dissertation in ScholarsArchive@OSU, describe and link to the data from the ScholarsArchive@OSU thesis/dissertation metadata record if the data is available in a disciplinary repository, or provide a description of the data and where it lives.

 

Among the benefits: students and faculty would have a well-organized set of their data and the ability to access it in the future. In many cases, the data associated with the thesis or dissertation is part of a grant. PIs and Co-PIs may be required to produce or otherwise have access to the data after the student graduates. Student research data that is organized, able to be understood by other scientists, and available with a unique and persistent identifier can be reused and built upon, reducing duplication of effort and enhancing scientific inquiry. Finally, student research data is an output of the teaching, learning and research that is conducted at OSU. The data should be valued as such, retained and made available to other researchers here and around the world.

Data management services at OSU, provided by faculty in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS), include providing assistance with writing NSF, NEH and other data management plans; providing individual consultation about metadata, data organization, preservation and sharing; generating and maintaining digital object identifiers for OSU-affiliated data files as a member of EZID; providing training through workshops; and depositing datasets in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository.  For more information: http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/data-services.

OSU Libraries and Graduate School Expanding Access to OSU Research Data: Data Management Services for Graduate Students and Post-Docs

Most of the research data currently produced by graduate students in the course of conducting the research associated with their thesis or dissertation is lost to the university upon graduation. At best, it is stored on hard drives or servers without metadata or other information to describe what the data consists of, how it is structured, or how one might use it. It is therefore unavailable for validation and reuse by other scientists via the internet. This year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS) at OSU Libraries interviewed graduate students from a variety of disciplines in order to learn more about their research data, to promote better data management practices among these and future students, and to improve data management workshops that the library offers.

 

Data management refers to the active management of research data for preservation and access. The Libraries and the Graduate School share a goal to improve data management practices of graduate students and post-docs. Many students already make their data more visible by depositing it alongside their thesis or dissertation; in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository; students are required to deposit a PDF of their thesis or dissertation to the repository. Long term, the Graduate School and Libraries would like to work with graduate students to either deposit their research data alongside the thesis or dissertation in ScholarsArchive@OSU, describe and link to the data from the ScholarsArchive@OSU thesis/dissertation metadata record if the data is available in a disciplinary repository, or provide a description of the data and where it lives.

 

Among the benefits: students and faculty would have a well-organized set of their data and the ability to access it in the future. In many cases, the data associated with the thesis or dissertation is part of a grant. PIs and Co-PIs may be required to produce or otherwise have access to the data after the student graduates. Student research data that is organized, able to be understood by other scientists, and available with a unique and persistent identifier can be reused and built upon, reducing duplication of effort and enhancing scientific inquiry. Finally, student research data is an output of the teaching, learning and research that is conducted at OSU. The data should be valued as such, retained and made available to other researchers here and around the world.

Data management services at OSU, provided by faculty in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services (CDSS), include providing assistance with writing NSF, NEH and other data management plans; providing individual consultation about metadata, data organization, preservation and sharing; generating and maintaining digital object identifiers for OSU-affiliated data files as a member of EZID; providing training through workshops; and depositing datasets in the ScholarsArchive@OSU open access repository.  For more information: http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/data-services.

Accessing ODFW resources in Scholars Archive

We all know the pleasant feeling of finding a link in an online catalog to a full-text copy of a report. Unfortunately, the speed of digitization projects sometimes outpace catalogers. This is particularly true for recently scanned ODFW publications. For some time, the OSU Libraries have been scanning ODFW publications and putting them in Scholars Archive, our digital repository. This note is about some easy ways to find this material.

How can you find this online material?

Search within ScholarsArchive.
Surprisingly, this is probably the least desirable method of access. The search engine in the repository is not the most agile or precise. You will be better off:

Searching with your favorite search engine.
Scholars Archive is routinely mined by open access web-crawlers. If you know what you want, just search for it.

Browse the collection to see what is available.

  • Starting at the ScholarsArchive home page.
  • Clickon the “Browse By … Community” link on the left side of the screen. A long list of communities and collections will come up.
  • Click on the Natural Resources collection.
  • Click on the Sub-Community for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Within the ODFW sub-collection are publications from ODFW and the earlier Oregon Fish Commission. Series scanned include the Research Briefs, Research Notes, Contributions and Annual Reports.


Mark Karnowski and others at ODFW have been busily scanning documents in their possession, and have made significant contributions to this resource. We hope to begin a scanning project in the Guin Library in the near future.

Other sources for ODFW publications:

The Corvallis Research Laboratory has many publications on its website, including Progress and Information Reports.

Other publications can be found in the StreamNet Library . You have to look closely at the record sometimes to find the link, but this is a good resource for hard-to-find items. The Oregon State Library catalog has links to many publications. If you are interested in the southern part of our state, the Southern Oregon Digital Archives (SODA) is a wonderful resource. You will probably want to click on the “Bioregion Collection.”

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