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Building a Library Digital Collection with Browsing in Mind

Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Initiatives LibrarianJ.Y. Joyner Libraryguegueng@ecu.edu

1. Behind the Magic…Designing the Program

2. Our Adoring Public…Users and their uses

3. A Better Mousetrap…Designing the System

4. EvaluationAnalytics, Usage, and Other Indicators

Miss Pitt County rehearsal. (1966). The Daily Reflector Negative Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/8837

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Introducing Digital Collections...

Finding Aid Interface

“Ad hoc” Digitization

Requests

RepositoryRepository

Digital Collections and Exhibits

Digital Collections and Exhibits

Digitized Materials not included in a collection or exhibit

(ad-hoc digitization)

Digitized Materials not included in a collection or exhibit

(ad-hoc digitization)

Finding Aids to digital and analog collections

Finding Aids to digital and analog collections

UserUser

System Needs

UNIFIEDUNIFIED

FLEXIBLEFLEXIBLE

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Masquerade party in China. (undated). James N. Joyner Papers. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/1554

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Typical Users

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 sources…assembling, 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 toolsIn other words…access to primary sources and

tools for deep reading and interpretation

Typical Users

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

• What’s a finding aid?

Finding aids enmeshed with digital objects

Finding aids enmeshed with digital objects

Organization/Guidance

Broad CategorizationBroad CategorizationFaceted manipulation of

resultsFaceted manipulation of

results

Now What?

Data-driven discovery

Tag clouds (for serendipity and browsing, gauging the scope)

Tag clouds (for serendipity and browsing, gauging the scope)

Hyperlinks in records

Hyperlinks in records

Full Text SearchFull Text Search

Personalization

The improved Jordan grits separator. (1915).F. Rehm and Sons Company Records. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/803

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REPOSITOREPOSITORY BASICSRY BASICS

Layer 1

Repository Basics: Architecture

Vs.familiar

supported

Already in use

shareable

More flexible?

Starting over

Image/audio/video files

Image/audio/video files

XML documents/METS

XML documents/METS

Index/TEXTMLIndex/TEXTML

User search Search results User search Search results

ReadSend

Web application / ASP.NET

Repository Basics: Metadata• 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

XML documents/METS

XML documents/METS

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)

Collections

DYNAMIC DYNAMIC INTERACTIINTERACTIONON

Layer 2

20,018

10,0767,932 6,856

6,151

Slope: -1

Slope: -81

Image/audio/video files

Image/audio/video files

METS/XML documentsMETS/XML documents

Index/TEXTMLIndex/TEXTML

SQL databaseSQL database

ReadSendWrite

Admin form/add tag User search Search results & comment/tag cloud/ faceted results

Admin form/add tag User search Search results & comment/tag cloud/ faceted results

Web application / ASP.NET

ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL RESOURCESRESOURCES

Layer 3

Additional Resources

Eastern North Carolina

Digital Library

Eastern North Carolina

Digital Library

East Carolina Manuscript Collection

Guides

East Carolina Manuscript Collection

Guides

Joyner Library Catalog

Joyner Library Catalog

Research DatabasesResearch

Databases

LibGuidesLibGuides Library WebsiteLibrary

Website

InternetInternet

Image/audio/video files

Image/audio/video files

METS/XML documentsMETS/XML documents

Index/TEXTMLIndex/TEXTML

Local XML documentsLocal XML

documents

ENCDL Index/

TEXTML

ENCDL Index/

TEXTML

EAD/XML documentsEAD/XML

documents

EAD Index/TEXTML

EAD Index/TEXTML

SQL databaseSQL database

Image/audio/video

files

Image/audio/video

files

Admin form/tag/comment User search Search results Admin form/tag/comment User search Search results

Web application / ASP.NET

Presented award. (1964).The Daily Reflector Negative Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/6798

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Workers holding protest signs. (2007). Workers Vanguard no. 891. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/843

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

Data-driven Discovery subject cloud searching full text across multiple sources hyperlinks in records

Personalization comments and tags personal collections tools for reusing collections

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”

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

Bibliography• Fallows, Deborah. Pew Internet and American Life Project: Search Engine Use.

Available: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Search_Aug08.pdf (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; 69:5.

• 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/programs/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.

Contact

Gretchen GueguenDigital Initiatives LibrarianJ.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina

Universityguegueng@ecu.edu

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