http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8982 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9156 IMLS Digital Collections and Content: Interim Report for Oct. 2007 - March 2008 Palmer, Carole L. Jackson, Amy S. The first six months of the continuing IMLS Digital Collections and Content project, “Next Generation Digital Federations,” were spent refining project planning, forming a project advisory board, evaluating current content, developing plans for a logic based framework for collection and item-level metadata relationships, and working through OMB clearance. Other activities included refining survey instruments, analyzing collection-level metadata elements, and identifying contacts for LSTA projects. The performance period closed with an advisory board meeting in Chicago on March 24 and 25, 2008. IMLS DCC Digital libraries Interim Report Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9155 IMLS Digital Collections and Content: Interim Report for April - Sept. 2008 Palmer, Carole L. Jackson, Amy S. The past six months of the continuing IMLS Digital Collections and Content (IMLS DCC) project, “Next Generation Digital Federations,” were primarily engaged in research activities for both the Digital Collection Evaluation (DiCE) subgroup and the Collection and Item Metadata Relationships (CIMR) subgroup. Other activities included development of a history portal, contacting non-IMLS funded collections, and preliminary discussions for realignment of the IMLS DCC collection description application profile with the Dublin Core collection description application profile. These and other activities are detailed in the report. IMLS DCC Digital libraries Interim Report Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9091 Dublin Core Metadata Harvested Through OAI-PMH Jackson, Amy S. Han, Myung-Ja Groetsch, Kurt Mustafoff, Megan Cole, Timothy W. The introduction in 2001 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) increased interest in and awareness of metadata quality issues relevant to digital library interoperability and the use of harvested metadata to build "union catalogs" of digital information resources. Practitioners have offered wide-ranging advice to metadata authors and have suggested metrics useful for measuring the quality of shareable metadata. Is there evidence of changes in metadata practice in response to such advice and/or as a result of an increased awareness of the importance of metadata interoperability? This paper looks at metadata records created over a six-year period that have been harvested by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and reports on quantitative and qualitative analyses of changes observed over time in shareable metadata quality. Metadata OAI-PMH Digital Collections IMLS Digital Collections and Content Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9089 Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata Zavalina, Oksana Palmer, Carole L. Jackson, Amy S. Han, Myung-Ja Collection-level metadata has the potential to provide important information about the features and purpose of individual collections. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections. The findings show that the free-text Description field often provides more accurate and complete representation of subjects and object types than the specified fields. Properties such as importance, uniqueness, comprehensiveness, provenance, and creator are articulated, as well as other vital contextual information about the intentions of a collector and the value of a collection, as a whole, for scholarly users. The results demonstrate that the semantically rich free-text Description field is essential to understanding the context of collections in large aggregations and can serve as a source of data for enhancing and customizing controlled vocabularies descriptive metadata collection-level metadata Dublin Core Collection Application Profile federated digital collections collection properties IMLS Digital Collections and Content project Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8981 Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development - Final Report Palmer, Carole L. Teffeau, Lauren C. Newton, Mark P. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a one-year pilot study to investigate advances in institutional repository (IR) development. The project was initiated by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and was designed to learn about successes and challenges experienced by university libraries that had made a substantial commitment to developing and sustaining an IR. Three sites with varying approaches to IR development were studied using the comparative case study method. The cases are highly illustrative of the kinds of progress, but also the tradeoffs, being made in active IR development, and the report provides a provisional baseline for determining realistic goals and promising approaches for IR development at similar institutions. Institutional repositories case study Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/8771 Data Curation Education Smith, Linda C. Cragin, Melissa H. Palmer, Carole L. MacMullen, W. John Heidorn, P. Bryan Data curation is the active and ongoing management of research data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has developed a new Data Curation Education Program, which is a concentration within its MSLIS. These slides describe the goals, priorities, and curriculum of the program. data curation data curation education Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2277 Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development Palmer, Carole L. Knutson, Ellen M. Twidale, Michael B. Zavalina, Oksana As part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse user communities. This paper reports on recent results from that project on how digital resource developers conceive of and define their collections. Based on content analysis of collection registry records, survey and interview data, and focus groups, we identify collection definition trends including a broadening of target audiences, elaboration of subject representation, and a lack of clearly defined selection criteria. Our findings reveal high variability and ambiguity in the collection construct. We discuss how the concept of collection is being continuously defined through the processes of digital resource development and federation and how rapidly changing conceptualizations are likely to impact adoption, tailoring, and development of digital collections and their use. IMLS DCC Digital libraries Digital collections Collection level description Collection development Aggregations Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/751 IMLS Digital Collections and Content: Interim Report 9 Cole, Timothy W. Jackson, Amy S. The IMLS Digital Collections and Content project continued to make progress during the performance period toward proposal goals and outcomes. New collections were added to both the registry and repository, data was migrated to a new server, and exploration of harvested metadata enrichment processes continued. A new interface for the item-level repository was tested and will be incorporated into the main site during the next performance period. The 2005 NLG projects have been contacted and records are currently being added to the registry. The Illinois State Library provided information for LSTA projects, and the registry and repository are currently being populated with these records. Additionally, the final Steering Committee meeting was held during the 2007 WebWise conference and feedback and recommendations were solicited from the members. IMLS DCC Digital libraries Interim Report Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/750 IMLS Digital Collections and Content: Interim Report 8 Cole, Timothy W. Jackson, Amy S. During the past six months, the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project has continued to make progress toward stated goals and objectives. A second survey was sent to the initial 100 projects to track the evolution of digital projects, and we continue interviewing participating projects and adding new collections to the collection registry. A preliminary group of LSTA projects have also been added to the collection registry. A new search interface focusing on individual collections was tested during this period, and we continue to integrate item-level and collection-level metadata searching. Item-level metadata reprocessing and augmentation techniques were examined, with plans to implement these findings during the next performance period. As of September 2006, the IMLS metadata repository contained 245,012 records from 33 OAI-compliant NLG projects, and the collection registry contained records for 167 NLG digital collections. Our team also continues to publish and present findings from research performed as part of this project, and to provide advice on metadata design and implementation. IMLS DCC Digital libraries Interim Report Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/749 IMLS Digital Collections and Content: Interim Report 7 Cole, Timothy W. Benevento, Jenny The IMLS DCC Project has continued progress on goals during this performance period. With the extension of the grant for 2 more years (effective 1 October 2005) we have made changes in project staff and steering committee members. We have begun an update of our web services and interface, migrating from a research project-oriented site and look-and-feel to a more production-oriented public interface. We have begun work to integrate item-level and collection-level metadata searching and have created and are planning testing of a prototype of that new design. Our project has been actively disseminating results and reaching out to projects, providing advice on metadata design and implementation. Whitepapers covering most of the major results from the first 3 years of the project have been posted on our Website. Preliminary research on making collection and item-level metadata records useful in K-12 context is underway. We continue to interview participating projects and add new projects to the Collection Registry. IMLS DCC Digital libraries Interim Report Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT