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Mind the [Digital] Gap
Using Web Collections to Fill Collecting Gaps at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the National Library of Medicine
Maureen McCormick Harlow, National Library of Medicine
Jaime McCurry, Folger Shakespeare Library
Agenda
Maureen & Jaime: Who We Are
The Value of Thematic Collections
Using Thematic Collections to Fill Gaps
Participation & Outreach
Jaime & Maureen
Folger Shakespeare Library
National Library of Medicine
The Value of Thematic Collections
The Value of Thematic Collections
But…
…how can you possibly collect comprehensively on all of those things?
But…
…how can you possibly collect comprehensively on all of those things?
You Can’t!!
Using Thematic Collections to Fill Collecting Gaps
Using Thematic Collections to Fill Collecting Gaps
NDSR@NLM: The Project
Build and Maintain a thematic Web collection:
“Disorders of the Developing and Aging Brain: Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web”
64 Seeds evenly split, covering 6-7 perspectives: – Current Understanding
– Caretakers (first-person resources, primarily blogs of caretakers)
– Patients/Sufferers (also first-person, also primarily blogs)
– Research
– Causes
– Treatment
– Prevention (for Alzheimer’s only)
NDSR@NLM: The Model
Thematic Collections as “Two Sides of the Same Coin”: Teen pregnancy and infertility Scoliosis and Osteoarthritis Diabetes Type 1 and Diabetes Type 2 Eating disorders and obesity
Diagnoses made during development and in old age.
NDSR@FSL: The Project
1) Test and document local workflows for web archive collection creation, collection expansion, and collection
quality control:
• Folger Shakespeare Library Websites and Social Media
• Shakespeare Festivals and Theatrical Companies
2) Create a new collection including adding seeds and metadata, running crawls, and performing post-crawl
Quality Assurance routines
NDSR@FSL: Looking Back
The Folger represents less than 13% of institutions conducting Web Archiving projects
As per the 2012 NDSA Web Archiving Survey Results
Shakespeare Festivals and Theatrical Companies
• Print directories could not keep up – 40 North American festivals in 1983* to over 300 websites currently in
the Folger collection
• Collection compliments Folger organization and user interests – Active Theatre program and loyal audience
*Goodland, Katharine, and John O’Connor. A Director of Shakespeare in Performance 1970-1990. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
NDSR@FSL: Participation and Outreach
STAKEHOLDERS Collection
Development Committee
STAKEHOLDERS Open
Discussion
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Web Archiving
Community, “Thematic” Community
PROJECT INVOLVEMENT Collaboration OUR AUDIENCE
Open Discussion
NDSR@FSL: Moving Forward…
Shakespeare in the Media
Prominent (Modern) Shakespearean Actors
and Actresses
Maureen & Jaime Web Archives!