Collaborating with Students on Digital Projects the “Open Source” Way

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Channel: Case Western Reserve University · 2015 · Education

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Kelvin Smith Library 2014 Digital Scholarship Colloquium
Collaborating with Students on Digital Projects the “Open Source” Way
Clifford B. Anderson, Director, Scholarly Communications, Vanderbilt University
Lindsey Langsdon Fox, GIS Coordinator, Vanderbilt University
11/7/2014

How can library staff members collaborate effectively with students to build and deploy digital projects? We suggest that adopting a workflow based on open source collaboration works best for joint projects between students and librarians. Drawing on our experience as mentors in our Library Dean’s Fellows program, we will discuss how we structured our work process to accommodate differing schedules and partitioned our responsibilities to avoid “getting stuck” along the way. We will conclude with a brief overview of tools we use to facilitate our “open source” model, including GitHub and Cloudant.

Colloquium website: http://library.case.edu/ksl/freedmancenter/colloquium/2014colloquium/

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