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Lee Dotson

Digital Initiatives Librarian

I have been the manager of STARS, UCF’s digital institutional repository, since it went live in the summer of 2015 and have had the opportunity to work with digital projects and repositories at UCF since the Libraries began digitization efforts in 1999. My involvement has covered all aspects of digital collection building from scanning and OCR to project management and digital preservation. In addition to traditional digital collections, I enjoy working with students and faculty on digital and scholarly projects.

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I have been the manager of STARS, UCF’s digital institutional repository, since it went live in the summer of 2015 and have had the opportunity to work with digital projects and repositories at UCF since the Libraries began digitization efforts in 1999. My involvement has covered all aspects of digital collection building from scanning and OCR to project management and digital preservation. In addition to traditional digital collections, I enjoy working with students and faculty on digital and scholarly projects.

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Library and Information Science

Digital libraries, Institutional Repositories, and Open Access

HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship, Charleston, SC, November 2015.
Travel scholarship recipient for the Cooperative Curation Symposium and Workshop held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, August 2012.
“SelectedWorks for Undergraduate Students: Creating Professional and Scholarly Online Identities and Portfolios,” QEP enhancement project awardee funded in the amount of $3,500, July 2016-June 2017.

John C. Hitt Library

Room 304

407-823-1236

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7495-7580

Redefining scholarly services in a research lifecycle (Sai Deng and Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2015)

The shifting landscape of scholarly communication and lack of a university wide institutional repository led the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries to develop a unique approach to supporting faculty and student research and scholarship. ...

Metadata migration to Islandora: Is there an easy way? (Sai Deng and Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2014)

This presentation will introduce UCF’s digital collection migration from DigiTool to Islandora, the new content management system for the state universities in Florida. It discusses the issues in DublinCore (DC) to MODS transformation, explores the ...

Scholarly Communication and the Research Lifecycle at UCF (Corinne Bishop and Lee Dotson) Faculty Focus (2013)

Article on pages 14-16 of this issue of the Faculty Focus.

Picturing the Past and Planning for the Future: Central Florida Memory (Lee Dotson and Selma Jaskowski) Digitization in the Real World Lessons Learned from Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (2010)

Central Florida Memory is a collaborative digitization project to create a collection of primary sources related to Central Florida’s history that provides a compelling look at Central Florida before the area became a tourist destination. ...

The Sky’s the Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, and Subject Librarians (Sarah A. Norris, Lee Dotson, Barbara Tierney, et al.) Charleston Library Conference

The University of Central Florida’s institutional repository, Showcase of Text, Archives, Research, and Scholarship (STARS), has presented new opportunities for collaboration among the Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Research Services, and subject librarians. ...

STARS: Shining a Light on UCF (Lee Dotson) Digital Commons North American Conference (2021)

This IR All-Star rode an initial wave of pent-up demand to shoot out of the gate with a long list of projects and collections in need of showcasing. She has been able to keep momentum ...

Adapting to Faculty & Student Needs for Data and Support for Social Justice and Other Projects (Sarah A. Norris, Corinne Bishop, Sandy Avila, et al.) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2021)

Presentation given at RDAP Summit 2021. During 2020, the need for access and equity has been more important than ever, particularly with data. At the University of Central Florida (UCF), a group of librarians representing ...

Taking a Grassroots Approach: Creating a Future for STEAM Based Research, Data, and Tools Support at the UCF Libraries (Sandy Avila, Sarah Norris, Lee Dotson, et al.) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2020)

This session will explore the impetus for UCF Libraries interest in developing a research data management (RDM) workshop series, specific infrastructure concerns (such as scalability and staff resources), key partnerships leveraged, and how the pilot ...

Full STEAM Ahead: Piloting Graduate & Faculty RDM Workshops (Corinne Bishop, Lee Dotson, Buenaventure Basco, et al.) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2020)

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries has developed a series of research data management sessions to provide support and promote awareness of available resources to the campus community, with an emphasis on outreach to ...

Giving New Life to Old Memories: Migrating Central Florida Memory from CONTENTdm to Digital Commons (Lee Dotson) Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2020 (2020)

For 18 years, CONTENTdm was home to Central Florida Memory (CFM). CFM is a cooperative project started by three partner institutions in 2002 to provide an online platform and focal point for gathering, preserving, and ...

The Sky’s the Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, and Subject Librarians (Lee Dotson, Richard Harrison, Sarah A. Norris, et al.) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2016)

A panel presentation presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. The University of Central Florida's institutional repository, STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship), has presented new opportunities for collaboration amongst ...

Grow Your Own Academic Library Scholarly Communication Program (Barbara G Tierney, Lee Dotson, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco, et al.) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2016)

How does an academic library go about growing its own Scholarly Communication (SC) program with no budget, no staff, no dedicated office space, no partners, and no experience? The University of Central Florida Libraries responded ...

Making institutional repositories work: from the frontlines to the future (Barbara Tierney, Lee Dotson, Burton Callicott, et al.) 2015 Charleston Conference, Nov 5 (2015)

Editors of the 2015 Charleston Insights Publication,"Marking Institutional Repositories Work," will discuss some of the major issues surrounding repositories including: platforms, hosting, discoverability, open access, publishing, and assessment. Also, members of the University of Central ...

More than Metadata: Where the Rubber Meets the Road in DLS Migration (Lee Dotson, Lydia Motyka, Joanne Parandjuk, et al.) Works of the FIU Libraries (2015)

This panel presentation provided several use cases that detail the complexity of large-scale digital library system (DLS) migration from the perspective of three university libraries and a statewide academic library services consortium. Each described the ...

Digital Scholarship and Student Work (Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2014)

These slides represent my portion of a presentation given at the Florida Association of College & Research Libraries in October 2014 with Joanne Parandjuk, Michael Rodriquez, and Melissa Minds VandeBurgt

Digital Librarianship: Building Digital Collections and Preserving Local History (Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2013)

These slides represent my contribution to: “Digital Librarianship: Building Digital Collections and Preserving Local History,” with Melissa Minds VandeBurgt, presented at the Florida Library Association, Orlando, FL, May, 2013.

Developing a Campus-Wide Research Lifecycle: Perspectives from the University of Central Florida Libraries (Lee Dotson and Sarah A. Norris) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2016)

Librarians at the University of Central Florida created their Research Lifecycle (RLC) to illustrate the research process, highlight campus-wide support services, and identify unmet needs. This session will explore the development of the RLC model, ...

Poster Presentations (4)

How does your Open Access Week programming grow? (Lee Dotson and Cynthia S Dancel) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2014)

It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Navigating the Universe of Theses and Dissertations at the University of Central Florida (Kerri Bottorff and Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2014)

Theses and Dissertations at the University of Central Florida are a giant mess of a universe, consisting of galaxies of both print and electronic, undergraduate honors theses, and graduate theses and dissertations. We have a ...

The Research Lifecycle: A library-led institutional collaboration to develop a mental model of research support and services (Penny Beile, Therese Triumph and Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2013)

Presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries conference, Indianapolis, IN, April 2013. This poster was originally presented at the Florida Association of College & Research Libraries in October, 2012. This version includes updated ...

The Research Lifecycle at UCF: A library-led institutional collaboration to develop a mental model of research support and services (Lee Dotson, Corinne Bishop and Penny Beile) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2012)

Presented at the Florida Association of College & Research Libraries Fall Program, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 2012.

Foundations of Data Management: Managing Your Data (Lee Dotson) Research Computing and Data Workshops Series (2022)

Healthy data management provides a foundation for strong research. This session will introduce participants to the components of a data management plan, data management processes, the DMPTool, and data repositories. Topics include data expectations, data ...

Stay Savvy with Scholarly Communication: Intro to Data Carpentries (Sandy Avila and Lee Dotson) Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Series (2021)

Data Management Plans (Lee Dotson) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2019)

Good data management is the foundation for good research. Today, more and more publishers and funding agencies are requiring researchers to share their data. This session will cover the components of a data management plan ...

Extending and Measuring Scholarly Reach and Impact (Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris and Barry Mauer) Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (2018)

In this session, Scholarly Communication Librarian Sarah Norris and Digital Initiatives Librarian Lee Dotson will explain how faculty can further publicize, disseminate, and measure the reach of their scholarship through UCF’s Showcase of Text, Archives, ...