Hi David,
The University of Minnesota's DSpace repository, the University Digital
Conservancy <http://conservancy.umn.edu/>, serves as the "digital arm" for
the University Archives in terms of collecting administrative documents,
minutes, reports, and more. I am the university archivist and serve as
co-director of the repository.
We initially began a conversation with our Board of Regents to start
capturing their born-digital minutes available on their web site. The next
step in the process was a digitization project that scanned Regents minutes
back to the beginning. The born-digital & digitized files are in the same
collection and users search across all records. Next, we worked with
several different senate committees to capture their recent minutes that
were available online and then did a retrospective scanning of earlier
minutes that were available in the University Archives holdings.
For both of these governance groups, the copies deposited are now
considered the official university record.
This process continues to replicate itself with other major institutional
committees that produce minutes, dockets, etc. on a regular basis. The
ability to provide them a permanent home for a complete set of their
materials in the IR regardless of it being digital or digitized, has served
as a major inreach activity for our repository and has built a level of
trust and interest across campus.
Below are a few links to sample collections.
Board of Regents Minutes & Dockets
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/5
University Minutes & Dockets
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/48023
Senate Committee on Educational Policy
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/1308
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Best,
Erik
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Schuster, David <[email protected]>
wrote:
> This has become a point of discussion on our campus. I would like to
> hear from others who have communities in their Dspace instance for these
> groups and is/was it a good thing. What are the pros/cons to doing this?
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> How has this impacted the University Archives?
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> Did you do any retrospective or just start at a particular point?
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> Just looking for feedback! If you can provide me a link to your community
> if you have one that would be great to see how others have built theirs.
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> Thanks again!
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> David Schuster
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> Texas Woman's University
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