1. Libra Data University of Virginia’s Dataverse
Sherry Lake
Scholarly Repository Librarian
Scholarly Repository Services
July, 2016

2. Updated UVA Institutional Repository
November 2014: Libra 2.0 Project Proposal for replacement of Libra 1.x (Old Hydra/Fedora) institutional repository.
Key replacement factors:
To to improve information flow into and out of the repository
To eliminate the risks and inefficiencies of further development on a platform comprised of components that are now obsolete and unsupported.
to Library leadership
repository (for depositors, for administration, and for analysis);
Repository Comparison Report
comparing advantages and features of existing institutional repository systems with in-house development of a Fedora 4-based institutional repository system

3. Libra Data Team Scholarly Repository Librarian Programmer/System Admin
Project Lead, Configuration, IQSS/DV Contact
Programmer/System Admin
Installation (code and DB) and maintenance
Network Admin
Shibboleth Set up, configuration
Libra Working Group
Policies, User Testing, Technical Team
Usability Testing (Limited)
Policies
Deposit License
Use License CC0 (default)
Configuration
Dataverse bugs, UVa Must haves!
Technical Review
DOI account, server, backups, shibboleth!

4. Keys for Implementation
UVA must haves: shibboleth – only Uva authenticated users can deposit
Popup publish confirmation
Shibboleth (UVA Only)
Policies
Publish Popup Text
Configuration
Metadata Tweaking – added a new required metadata – Date of Production
SOLR Indexing
For online catalog discovery

5. Metadata Configurations
Metadata Tweaking – added a new required metadata – Date of Production moved it to “top of fold”
UVA Dataverse Configuration
Dataset Creation only

6. Institutional Identity
User Guides – big thing, no dataverse creation.
Links for development, installation and API, not needed locally, go to Harvard

7. Great Support from Harvard Dataverse!
Created issues for editing licenses, pop-ups, support not working.
Helped w/ Shib even though it was not supported yet
Improved documentation for configuration, installation, admin

8. For final, publishable products of research
Institutional Identity – header color and logo
Went live on March 29, had a soft launch March 15 – migration of datasets from Libra 1.
Users have to log in/ UVA only and then can only create datasets, not dataverses.
For final, publishable products of research

9. Thank You!
Sherry Lake Scholarly Repository Librarian “Keeper of the Dataverse”