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Item Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library(2009-05-27) Hall, Nathan; University of North TexasThis presentation will focus on University of North Texas Libraries’ strategies for creating digital collections and services from datasets for users outside of formal education and research in support a proposed international digital library for environmental science. Some collection development for the Environmental Science Digital Library (ESDL) will stem from harvested web content from the government domain (.gov). These materials will include environmental policy and documentation from the websites of various federal agencies and departments from before the 2008 election, after the 2008 election, and following the 2009 inauguration. As a result, the collection will allow users to see how federal policies changed during the transition from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. The ESDL will also host content contributed from institutional partners. This would include white papers, datasets, images, video, simulations, and applications. Much of the ESDL content will be born digital. This will provide the opportunity and challenge of generating new content and services by compiling information from discrete data sources to create new applications. An example of such a service would be a map that imported data from one source, measuring soil, water, and air quality. Layering that map over another one with regions encoded by environmental policy would be useful for determining how environmental policy has an impact on measures of environmental quality. The team developing the ESDL believes that the values and consequences of environmental science are important to a broader range of users than many other academic disciplines. The target audience of the digital library will be citizens and policy makers due to the ongoing needs of these groups for reliable information about environmental science and policy. This presentation will address the TCDL 2009 topics of interest by discussing how the ESDL project will create digital library services for a broad range of users, and how the digital library will add value to its collections through the use of imported datasets.Item Combining Metadata, Inferred Similarity of Content, and Human Interpretation for Managing and Listening to Music Collections(2011-10-21) Meintanis, Konstantinos A.Music services, media players and managers provide support for content classification and access based on filtering metadata values, statistics of access and user ratings. This approach fails to capture characteristics of mood and personal history that are often the deciding factors when creating personal playlists and collections in music. This dissertation work presents MusicWiz, a music management environment that combines traditional metadata with spatial hypertext-based expression and automatically extracted characteristics of music to generate personalized associations among songs. MusicWiz?s similarity inference engine combines the personal expression in the workspace with assessments of similarity based on the artists, other metadata, lyrics and the audio signal to make suggestions and to generate playlists. An evaluation of MusicWiz with and without the workspace and suggestion capabilities showed significant differences for organizing and playlist creation tasks. The workspace features were more valuable for organizing tasks, while the suggestion features had more value for playlist creation activities.Item Could the library be dismantled/role of unique holdings in modern times(2011-04-06) Heil, Kathleen AnnI have been asked by administration, how much of our collection could go into storage. They optimistically hoping for a room or two for faculty/staff offices, as some buildings need renovation or need to be closed due to safety issues. Clearly, much of the population believes that all/most library materials are available on-line free. I will present the results of our surveys of material held and available on-line and space freed thanks to archiving. How little space is freed.Item Did We Scan That Book Twice?: Weeding the Texas Tech Dark Digital Archive(2014-03-25) Winkler, Heidi; Texas Tech UniversityThe Texas Tech University Libraries' digital collections began in 2004 with the intent to digitize as many books as possible in the name of open access. By the fall of 2013, that mission had been revised to focus on the preservation of materials unique to Texas Tech. We decided it was not in the institution’s best interest to devote resources to files in our digital dark archive that did not meet this mission. Using the HathiTrust catalog as our guide, we set out on an online trek to discover just how many digitized books being preserved on our servers were, in fact, distinct items not held elsewhere. Along the way, we tackled questions of to what do we provide access on our DSpace versus archiving on our servers and just how unique is "unique"? Weeding a digital resources library requires a different process of consideration than the weeding of a physical library. Further, we used this project to refine our digital archiving and preservation practices, the most important of which was the establishment of an archive change log.Item Pasteur’s Own Hand: The Creation of a Digital Repository(2013-03-21) Greene, Mira; University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonThe Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections at the Moody Medical Library at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, was awarded a NN/LM South Central Region Digital Preservation & Access (DiPA) Award to complete a digital repository of carefully selected material from the private library of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). This project sought to dramatically improve user awareness and access to the personal and academic thoughts of one of the world's most celebrated scientists. The Pasteur Collection held at the Blocker Collections contains 154 items including books, offprints, prints, manuscripts and unpublished handwritten letters by Pasteur which he maintained in his personal library. In a recent appraisal, the Pasteur Collection was noted as "easily the most significant in the United States and most likely the entire world outside of the material held by the [l'Institiut Pasteur] in France." Our presentation will focus on the award application process and lessons learned, in-house workflows, outsourcing of translation and transcription, creation of audio files, website design, metadata creation, digital repository creation in ContentDM, and exporting of records from ContentDM for batch loading in our TDL repository. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.