Just Keep Clicking Till You Find It

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Just Keep Clicking Till You Find It

• Building a Library Digital Collection with
  Browsing in Mind

Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Initiatives
Librarian J.Y. Joyner Library guegueng_at_ecu.edu
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• Behind the Magic
• Designing the Program
• Our Adoring Public
• Users and their uses
• A Better Mousetrap
• Designing the System
• Evaluation
• Analytics, Usage, and Other Indicators

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Behind the Magic
Miss Pitt County rehearsal. (1966). The Daily
Reflector Negative Collection. http//digital.lib.
ecu.edu/8837
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Introducing Digital Collections...
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Finding Aid Interface
Ad hoc Digitization Requests
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User
Digital Collections and Exhibits
Digitized Materials not included in a collection
or exhibit (ad-hoc digitization)
Finding Aids to digital and analog collections
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System Needs
FLEXIBLE
MODULAR
UNIFIED
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Our Adoring Public
Masquerade party in China. (undated). James N.
Joyner Papers. http//digital.lib.ecu.edu/1554
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Typical Users
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Humanities Users

• Users of archival materials
• How do they search?
• humanities scholars and other researchers rely
  heavily on browsing, collecting, rereading and
  notetaking. They tend to compile a wide variety
  of sourcesassembling, organizing, reading,
  analyzing and writing. Palmer, et.al. 2009
• What do they expect?
• Diverse primary resources
• To be able to create their own context
• Better pedagogical tools
• In other wordsaccess to primary sources and
  tools for deep reading and interpretation

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Typical Users
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Undergraduate Users

• Users of Research Materials
• How do they search?
• General, thematic searches
• Just keep clicking until I find it
• Familiar with the web, but perhaps not research
  resources
• What do they expect?
• Everything they need is online
• All searches are like Google

• Whats a finding aid?

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Organization/Guidance
Now What?
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Data-driven discovery
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Personalization
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A Better Mousetrap
The improved Jordan grits separator. (1915).F.
Rehm and Sons Company Records. http//digital.lib.
ecu.edu/803
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Repository basics

• Layer 1

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Repository Basics Architecture
Vs.
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Image/audio/video files
Read Send
XML documents/ METS
Index/TEXTML
User search Search results
Web application / ASP.NET
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Repository Basics Metadata
XML documents/ METS

• Database built of METS records
• dmdSec
• MODS
• DC for descriptive sections
• TEI when transcriptions exist
• Locally created sections for tags/comments
• amdSec
• MIX/AudioMD/VideoMD
• Currently no preservation metadata other than
  what is already captured by MIX
• fileSec
• Placeholder for Master
• Location of Access and Thumb surrogates
• EAD schemas integrated separately

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37th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment History
(MF0040)5th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Collection (874) A New and Correct Map of the
Province of N.C. (MC0035)Abernethy, Charles
Laban, Jr., Papers (98)Adams, Faye B., Oral
History Interview (OH0251)Agricultural
Resources Center Pesticide Education Project
Records (905)Ainsworth, Walden Lee, Papers
(250)Albright Family Papers (70)Albright, R.
Mayne, Oral History Interview (OH0036)Alder,
Mavis M., Oral History Interview
(OH0217)Alford, Mike, Collection (1094)Allen,
Sarah, Papers (471)Americae sive Indiae
Occidentalis Tabula Generalis Map
(MC0023)American Legion Pitt County Post 39
Papers (120)Amis-Clark-Puryear Papers
(474)Ammons, A. R., Papers (1096)Anastasion,
Steven N., Collection (913)
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Collections
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Dynamic interaction

• Layer 2

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Image/audio/video files
Read Send Write
METS/XML documents
Index/TEXTML
SQL database
Admin form/add tag User search Search results
comment/tag cloud/ faceted results
Web application / ASP.NET
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Additional Resources

• Layer 3

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Additional Resources
Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Guides
Joyner Library Catalog
Research Databases
LibGuides
Library Website
Internet
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Image/audio/video files
METS/XML documents
Index/TEXTML
SQL database
Admin form/tag/comment User search Search
results
Web application / ASP.NET
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Evaluation
Presented award. (1964).The Daily Reflector
Negative Collection. http//digital.lib.ecu.edu/6
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Workers holding protest signs. (2007). Workers
Vanguard no. 891. http//digital.lib.ecu.edu/843
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• Data-driven Discovery
• subject cloud
• searching full text across multiple
  sources
• hyperlinks in records

• Organization/Guidance
• thematic collections
• faceted refinement
• better integration with finding aids

• Personalization
• comments and tags
• personal collections
• tools for reusing collections

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Anecdotal Evidence

• Use in English 1200, History Classes
• Use of A.R. Ammons collection by several scholars
• Will add a collection specifically for the
  Interior Design program in the autumn.
• Not Mass Digitization but Mass Representation

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The Future
Orville Wright Glider Flights - Cyanotype 3.
(1911).The Alpheus W. Drinkwater Collection.
http//digital.lib.ecu.edu/1388
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Bibliography

• Fallows, Deborah. Pew Internet and American Life
  Project Search Engine Use. Available
  http//www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Search_Aug08.p
  df (February 5, 2009).
• Head, Alison J. Information Literacy from the
  Trenches How Do Humanities and Social Science
  Majors Conduct Academic Research? College and
  Research Libraries. 2008 695.
• Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie
  M. Pirmann. 2009. Scholarly Information Practices
  in the Online Environment Themes from the
  Literature and Implications for Library Service
  Development. Report commissioned by OCLC
  Research. Published online at www.oclc.org/progra
  ms/publications/reports/2009-02.pdf
• Proffitt and Schaffner. 2008. The Impact of
  Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and
  Scholarship Reflections on a Symposium about
  Digitization and the Humanities. Report produced
  by OCLC Programs and Research. Published online
  at www.oclc.org/programs/reports/2008-04.pdf
• Sinclair, James and Michael Cardew-Hall. The
  folksonomy tag cloud when is it useful? Journal
  of Information Science. 2008 34 15.

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Contact

• Gretchen Gueguen
• Digital Initiatives Librarian
• J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University
• guegueng_at_ecu.edu

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