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The Evolution of theKarst Information Portal

Initiative

Todd A. Chavez

University of South Florida Libraries

Coalition for Networked Information 2009 Fall Membership MeetingDecember 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC

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What is Karst?Background & Development of the KarstInformation Portal (KIP)

What is KIP?

Emerging KIP Solutions

Questions & Discussion

Order of Presentation

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What is Karst?

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Karst is a globallydistributed terrainresulting from the

dissolution of solublerocks, such aslimestone and dolomite.

Dissolution occurswhen rain water infused

with carbon dioxidepasses through layersof soil and bedrock .

Image: Natural Resources Canada http://geoscape.nrcan.gc.ca/

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Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

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Karst & Water

Image courtesy of Sean Roberts

Image courtesy of Bogdan Onac

Karst & Cave Minerals

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Karst & Paleoclimate

Image : NOAA

Images : NOAASpeleothems

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Karst & Human Origins

Only known Neanderthal footprint.

Found in Vartop Cave (Romania)by USF Professor Bogdan Onac.

Chauvet images : Bradshaw Foundation

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Evolution of the

Karst Information Portal

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Image: National Park Service

Florida Through theEyes of Our Visitors

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Image courtesy of Robert Brinkmann

Florida Through the

Eyes of Residents

Juniper Springs(Ocala)

Image: Ann Murray, Sara Reinhart & Vic Ramey

Typical FloridaKarst Terrain

Florida Caverns State Park

Image: Tim Ross

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USF Vital Facts, 2008/09

47,122 students

10,335 degrees awarded

$310 million research funding

$300 million endowment

$1.7 billion budget

13,440 employees

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University of South Florida

Karst Research at USF

Distribution of Karst in Florida

Geohazards

Urban Karst

Cave Mineralogy

Paleoclimate

Paleoenvironment

Cave Archaeology

Eogenetic KarstMeta-Karst

Karst Policy

Microbiology of MarineCaves

QuaternaryGeomorphology

Karst Hydrogeology

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Sinkhole in Winter Park,Florida (1981)

Image: USGS

USF karst scientists are working to solve complexinterdisciplinary problems around the globe …

USF librarians are also working to solve a karst

problem … a fragmented and “grey” literature basewith significant contributions by non-scientists.

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Our solution …

… an open-access digital library linkingscientists, managers, and explorers withquality information resources concerning

karst environments.

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2005

VisioningMeeting

(USF)

2006

International

Workshop(Carlsbad, NM)

InformationNeeds

Assessment

June 2007

KIPLaunch!

2008-2009

2010 +

Content

development

Migration to NSDLplatform

Simplified Timeline

3,100 Bibliographic Records

Social Networking

Oral Histories

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Managing a Complex Network of Collaborations

• Consulted anorganizationalcommunication specialist

• Drafted bylaws

• Established clear roles

for the partners• Wrote MOUs

The Founding Partners

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2006

• National Cave & Karst Research Institute (USA)

• University of New Mexico Library

• Ukranian Speleological Association (Ukraine)

• Monteverde Research Institute (Costa Rica)

• Karst Waters Institute (USA)

• Inštitut za Raziskovanje Krasa (Slovenia)

• Institutul Speologic Emil Racoviţă (Romania)

• Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS)

• National Speleological Society (USA)

• U.S. Geological Survey (USA)

• Hoffman Environmental Institute (WKU)

• Southwest Florida Water Management District

• Association for Mexican Cave Studies

2007

2008

2009• Australian Speleological Federation (Australia)

• La Società Speleologica Italiana (Italy)

• Claremont Colleges Joint Science Department (USA)

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Collaborations

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What is KIP?

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Guiding Principles

Open-access to quality

information• Organized for discovery

• Vetted for inclusion

• Described by the community of 

users

Facilitate informationpreservation & digitization

Focus on grey information

Promote collaborations

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Limit Costs

Maximize Impact

Deploy Quickly toLeverage Interest

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KIP in 2007

• Adobe ColdFusion

• 3,100 bibliographic records

• Search five targets;refinements for four fields

• Relevance ranking basedon Verity algorithm

• Document deposit module• Tagging functionality

• User registration

• Discussion forums & RSSfeeds

• Directory of people &organizations

• News & announcements

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KIP in 2009

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Migrating to the CWIS system ….

• Designed for STEMcollections

• Better search tools (fieldedsearching, etc.)

• More robust/flexible controlled

vocabulary management• Resource annotations &

ratings

• Recommender system• OAI 2.0 exports to NSDL

• Fully qualified Dublin Core

• Web 2.0 functionalities• Turnkey installation

http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/CWIS/

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CWIS was designed to facilitate integration

into the National Science Digital Library …

Harvested recordsare attributed to

the creator Inclusion increasesKIP’s exposure

CWIS is prepackaged with the nsdl_dc schema.

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Content Collection = 4,756 Records

Describing 28 Document Types

Published

63%

Grey

37%

800+ Digital Objects

Collection “Seed” –database used to createA Guide to Speleological Literature 

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Monographs

Articles SerialsTechnical Reports

Newsletters

Trip & Cave Reports

ProceedingsTheses & Dissertations

Maps

Databases

Oral Histories

Preprints

Images

Bibliographies

Presentations

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• 190 registered users

• 23 countries• 30 areas of karst

research

Referrals from Google

account for 63% of all visits

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2007 2008 2009

Users & Usage

June Launch

Annual Visits

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Emerging KIP Solutions

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Paolo Forti:

“I’ll never again update thisbook … I am getting tooold, it is too much work,and things change tooquickly.”

Moore (1970) – 68 cave minerals

Hill (1976) – 80

Hill & Forti (1986) – 173 (86)

Hill & Forti (1997) – 255 (125)

Since 1997 – 282

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https://www.lib.usf.edu/caveminerals/ca/

An open-accesscollection of geological,mineralogical,crystallographical, andconservation informationon all minerals

discovered in caves.

Our solution …

Cave Mineral Database (CAMIDA)

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Bibliography of Speleothem Research

A database describingpeer-reviewedspeleothem research

papers searchable bygeographic and/or geochronological

parameters.

http://www.lib.usf.edu/speleothem/

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Speleothem research reveals pastclimates and environments.

Advanced search options

Image courtesy of Athanasios Koutavas

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Fully qualified Dublin Core recordsare augmented with geospatialcoordinates and bibliographic

citations (for published works) aswell as information concerning

dating techniques andgeochronological coverage.

Sample Record

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Databases in Development

Collapsed sea cave on Santa Rosa Island, CA

(Image: Dave Bunnell)

Coastal Cave Survey

Dye-trace experiment in West Virginia’s Greenbrier Limestonekarst (Image: Doug Boyer)

Dye-Trace Database coveringthe eastern US

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Bibliographic Databases

“Endangered” projects

represent opportunities toexpand KIP content.

Speleogenesis’ KarstBase(Ukraine)

KIP was designed with mergers in mind!

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Serials

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USF Karst Studies Series & Oral Histories of 

Key Karst Researchers

Karst Oral History ProjectAlexander Klimchouk (Image: Stephen L. Alvarez)

Published by the USF Libraries, theUSF Karst Studies Series reports onresearch conducted by faculty-studentteams.

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Lessons Learned• KIP is a solution to

an informationproblem.

• The experience

emphasizes thecontributions of librarians to scientific

research.

• Relationships are

paramount … andchallenging.

• Technology is

important, butsecondary to therelationships.

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Acknowledgements & Thanks

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From USF …

Professors Robert Brinkmann, H. Len Vacher, Anna Perrault, Bogdan Onac, PhilipReeder, and Philip Van Beynan.

Dean William Garrison, Beverly Caggiano, former KIP Portal Manager E. Spencer Fleury and USF librarians Matt Torrence, Cheryl McCoy, Pete Reehling, and ArdisHanson.

Recently graduated USF doctoral students Beth Fratisi, Lee Florea and Jason Polk.

From New Mexico …

NCKRI Executive Directors Louise Hose (past) and George Veni (present).

Drs. Diana Northup (University of New Mexico) and Penelope Boston (New MexicoTech).

From Australia and the Ukraine (respectively) …

Peter Matthews and Alexander Klimchouk of the Union Internationale deSpéléologie

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Thank You!

Questions & Discussion

Todd A. ChavezCoalition for Networked Information 2009 Fall Membership Meeting

December 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC