archive engine west contextualizing digital objects with ead metadata
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Archive Engine West Contextualizing Digital Objects with EAD Metadata. Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Orbis Cascade Alliance Worthy Martin, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting 2014 August 14. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Archive Engine WestContextualizing Digital Objects with EAD
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Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Orbis Cascade AllianceWorthy Martin, Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities, University of VirginiaSociety of American Archivists Annual Meeting
2014 August 14
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About the Alliance and Northwest Digital Archives
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Library Consortium for WA,OR,ID
Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) Program with 40 members and 23,000 EAD finding aids
No shared digital repository
Shared ILS
Orbis Cascade Alliance
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Project Origins
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Research and Development
• Researcher Needs Study with Beth Yakel 2008• IMLS Collaborative Planning Grant 2008-2009– Prototype development
• Consortium program with EAD brings opportunities
• IMLS National Leadership Grant 2011 for Demonstration project
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Project Process
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Development
• Demonstration site– Built by IATH– Blacklight discovery on top of SOLR index
• Association of EADs and associated CHOs– Automated association not possible; association
by inspection– MODS records for each CHO
• Heavy metadata wrangling
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Archival Contexts
• CHO – base items to be presented in context
• Collection – EAD level context
• Repository – institutional context
• Consortium – similarity context
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Accessing CHOs and Context• CHOs
– present only base items with digital surrogates– object description– collection description (brief)– uniform preview– path to original repository record– path to repository description
• Collection– long description– list of all CHO records in collection– path to original finding aid– path to repository description
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Accessing CHOs and Context• Repository– brief description– path to institutional home– list of all collections
• Similarity– free text search in descriptions/titles– subject metadata
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Project Outcomes
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Collection-LevelItem-Level
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Summative Evaluation
• Rockman et al• End user reactions:– Liked the site and found it useful for their research– Recognized and appreciated the contextual
information presented with the digital objects– Able to complete the search tasks we gave them
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Limitations
• Deficiencies in ability to link EADs and CHOs– Best Practices deficit
• Very inconsistent CHO metadata– No shared metadata standards
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dizmangphotography/9284617870
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5984094240
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What’s Next?
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Current Activities
• Grant extension– Developing CHO metadata standards
• Integration into new Strategic Agenda– Content Creation & Dissemination Program
• Exploring DPLA Service Hub• Integration into redesign of EAD Researcher
Site• AEW site sustainability?
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Summary
• Importance of integrating EAD metadata and CHOs on large scale
• Part of “whither EAD?”• Dependent on shared best practices for CHOs
and EAD