UH Librarians Receive Provost’s Travel Fund Awards

Two University of Houston librarians received Provost’s Travel Fund grants to present their research at an international conference held last month.

Santi Thompson

Santi Thompson

Santi Thompson, head of Digital Repository Services, and Andy Weidner, metadata services coordinator, were awarded funds covering travel expenses to the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in São Paulo, Brazil.

Thompson, with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign colleague Ayla Stein, co-presented “Understanding Metadata Needs when Migrating DAMS,” a study that identified and explored metadata needs associated with migrating to a new digital asset management system.

Andy Weidner

Andy Weidner

Weidner, with head of Metadata and Digitization Services Annie Wu, presented “Metadata Quality Control for Content Migration: The Metadata Migration Project at the University of Houston Libraries,” a report of the Libraries DAMS Implementation Task Force work on establishing a new repository architecture for the UH Digital Library and the metadata quality improvements that resulted as part of the Metadata Migration Project.

Weidner was also invited to join a new DCMI committee while at the conference. The Infrastructure Advisory Committee begins work next month to explore ways to improve the communication systems that support the DCMI community.

The Provost’s Travel Fund was established to strengthen research and creative programs while raising the university’s national and international presence in the scholarly community. The Provost’s Travel Fund is designed to enhance professional development of UH tenured and tenure-track faculty members and librarians, and to increase the visibility of the institution by supporting travel to present the research findings or creative activity at national or international conferences.

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Posted on October 19th, 2015 by Esmeralda Fisher and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on UH Librarians Receive Provost’s Travel Fund Awards