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Dissertation done: a recap of the ProQuestElectronic Theses & Dissertations PurchasedBackfile Project, Phase 1Kelly J. ThompsonIowa State University, [email protected]

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A Recap of the ProQuest Electronic Theses & Dissertations Purchased Backfile Project, Phase 1

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Kelly Thompson, Metadata Management and Cataloging LibrarianIowa State University Librarian Assembly, May 15th, 2015

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theses and dissertations

Masters theses PhD dissertations

Born digitalMasters theses

Born digital PhD dissertations

physical copies of Masters theses

physical copies of PhD dissertations

borderlands objects

borderlands objects

Born digitalMasters theses

Born digital PhD dissertations

physical copies of Masters theses

physical copies of PhD dissertations

which were microfilmed by

UMI

borderlands objects

borderlands objects

File and record wrangling

MARC XML records

15,188 PDF filespdf

ProQuest

MARC records

Aleph

File and record wrangling

15,188 PDF filespdf

Ready for the DR

repository records

(.csv)

Metadata crosswalks

245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.

Metadata crosswalks


100 10 $a Lu, Helen Hong-Min.

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100 10 $a Lu, Helen Hong-Min, $d 1961- .

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100 10 $a Lu, Helen Hong-Min, Jr.

Metadata crosswalks


100 10 $a Hong-Min Lu.

Metadata crosswalks

Black History

African American Studies; United States History;

Metadata crosswalks

260 0/ $c 1978.690 // $a Family environment.

Keywords: Family environmentDepartment: Home Economics;

Historic department names

Historic department names

http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/catalog/

Metadata work done by catalogers


Look at the item!


Quality control


Department names

Managing these batches

• 214 batches• Each batch 50-100 documents• September 3rd, 2014 – May 4th, 2015, with a clean-

up/quality control break over January and February

• I’ve also been working on the in-house-digitized masters theses and the vendor-digitized masters theses – so far I’ve uploaded 319


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Discoverability problems


Primo WorldCat

DR


Primo WorldCat

DR

• Department mappings

• New ETDs and old “RTDs”


Primo WorldCat

DR• Update ProQuest URLs in Aleph to DR URLs

• What is considered a dissertation/thesis in Primo?? [type mapping]


Primo WorldCat

DR • Update ProQuest URLs to DR URLs

• Metadata API via PHP?

Next steps

http://www.troll.me/2012/09/05/badass-aragorn/a-day-may-come-when-the-editing-of-your-thesis-is-finised-but-it-is-not-this-day/

Next steps

• Clean-up problems in Aleph MARC records discovered during project (502 fields, etc.)

• Finish URL updates in Aleph and OCLC

• DR stuff – especially interdisciplinary majors and no-longer-existing departments

• Update Primo mappings to ensure resource types include DR theses and dissertations

• Update search guidelines on library webpage

Shoutouts

• Eric Parsons• 7 cataloging staff members on this project:

• Stacey Bonello• Kim Gawley• Lori Kappmeyer• Kathy Kent• Lenard Kluck• Karen Lawson• Joan Leysen

• Ben Spick (student in DR)• Harrison

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