- This poster summarizes a project that provides practical recommendations
for the use of collections as data in Texas Digital Library repositories.
The project presents recommendations for how to undertake a collections
as data project using the data from the Texas Conference
on Digital Libraries proceedings as a case study.
A project proposed by TDL's Lea DeForest
- The recommendations were written by us, Karla Roig and Morgan and Katy Tuck,
three graduate students of the University of Texas at Austin
School of Information, as part of a semester-long group project with TDL
for our digital libraries class taught by Professor Melanie Cofield.
As a group, we approached our collections as data projects by dividing it
into a three-part process: metadata extraction,
metadata cleaning, and metadata visualization.
- The purpose of our project is to increase awareness and understanding
of methods for using collections as data for TDL members.
This poster highlights our methodology and suggests resources
and next steps for TDL members interested in undertaking a similar project.
Thank You.