Data Policy
What data do we collect, preserve, and disseminate?
Subject Scope:
- Chinese-American librarians’ academic publications and contributions
- Chinese-American Librarianship related resources
- Chinese culture/literature related to LIS resources
Types of materials we accept:
- Official / Formal Publications
- Research Articles
- Thesis and Dissertations
- Audios / Videos
- Research Data Set
- Gray Publications*
- Other Works
- Library Resources (Learning/Teaching/Research)
*Gray Publications: Informal Publications, such as:
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- Some organizational reports and events reports (including AV materials)
- Pre-publications and data
- Presentation slides
- Non-published research reports
- Experimental data set
- Technical documents or test data
- Courses and teaching-related documents or data on LIS education, e.g.:
- Syllabus of courses
- Course design
- Curriculum design
- Presentation files, and
- Video/audio materials created by faculty (Chinese-American faculty of LIS and related fields) for LIS education.
Accepted Data Types in CALASYS:
A contributor will need to select a data type in contributing to CALASYS. The available data types include:
- Book
- Book Chapter
- Conference Proceeding
- Document
- Image
- Journal Article
- Report
- Poster
- Presentation
- Video
Related Metadata Standard and Guidelines:
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Standard
- CALASYS Metadata Guidelines
CALASYS Platform
- Omeka, a free and open-source web-publishing platform, has been set up for the pilot program, which is currently in use.
- Item Format Types (types of collections)
- Publication; Manuscript; Sound Recording; Video Recording; Web Page; Presentation Files; Software: Dataset; Image