Personal Identifier

orcid.org/0000-0002-3681-4888

Keywords

Institutional repository, CALASYS, Omeka, Meta-data, Tags, Digital collections, Plug-ins, Standards compliance, Functionality, Interfaces, Cataloging, Digital repositories, CALA, Chinese American Librarians Association, Digital libraries, Metadata, Plug-ins (Computer programs), Cataloging, Chinese-American Librarians Association

Abstract

The Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) was established in 2013 and has been growing gradually ever since. To seek sustainable and greater growth in the future, the CALASYS 2019-2020 Committee reviewed previous efforts and explored new potentials in the repository’s content development, interface and functionality improvement and community engagement. This presentation will cover several issues that the Committee has addressed since its forming: developing new content for CALASYS such as a new top-level collection called ”Chinese Culture Heritage & Chinese Studies” and its children collections including the CALA Best Book Award Collection; starting or resuming testing on several Omeka plugins whose implementation would enhance the system’s functionality and performance significantly, such as Exhibit Builder, User Profile, Search by Metadata, CSS Editor and Geolocation; exploring other Omeka instances’ interfaces and improving the CALASYS’ appearance and presentation. This poster will also cover the continuing development of the CALA Archives, CALA Chapter Collections and CALA Member Scholarly Achievements collection, metadata editing and enhancement, statistics and usage of the repository, as well as involving students and CALA members in working with the repository. To develop an organization’s institutional repository is a long-term task, this presentation will conclude with a discussion of the lessons learned and strategies and tips on working with the repository for the committee members and the community.

Publication Date

6-24-2020

Original Citation

Deng, S., Liu, W.L., Chen, S.Z., Li, M.Y. & Qu, M. (2020). Growth and new directions: CALA Academic Resources and Repository System. The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Annual Conference 2020 poster session. Online. June 24, 2020.

Document Type

Poster

Publication Version

Author's version

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

College

Information Technologies & Resources

Location

Orlando (Main) Campus

Department

University Libraries



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