Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Institutional repositories are an exciting innovation in scholarly communication and liberal arts institutions have a unique opportunity to create repository collections that reflect their tradition. However, the challenges of cost, staffing, infrastructure, standardized metadata, and content recruitment that are part and parcel of developing institutional repositories may be daunting to individual liberal arts institutions. The idea that multiple, like-minded institutions could join forces to share their efforts, unique challenges, and maximize their efficiencies grew into the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository (LASR). Initial steps in this collaboration included the development of a group mission and a statement of collection policies. Technical specifications and metadata best practices were developed to facilitate searching and to ensure the interoperability of the repository. This article outlines the history of the project and the process of collaborating on metadata standards.
DOI
10.1080/19386380903176063
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Repository Citation
Costanza, J., Knight, R. C., & Liu-Spencer, H. (2009). Metadata implementation for building cross-institutional repositories: Lessons learned from the liberal arts scholarly repository (LASR). Journal of Library Metadata, 9(1-2), 153-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386380903176063
Publication Information
Journal of Library Metadata
