just keep clicking till you find it: building a library digital collection interface with browsing...
DESCRIPTION
Developing navigation tools for browsing in a Digital Collections interface (clouds, facets, links to other digital resources) using existing metadata. Will examine how tools are developed, how they work; what are users' reactionsThis session will explore how East Carolina University's Joyner Library developed an interface to their digitized special collections to facilitate user browsing. The library's digital collections contain thousands of items digitized from hundreds of collections – in some cases only one or two items are digitized from a collection. This hodge-podge approach is a result of the library's image management practices which attempt to store materials digitized on a daily basis (for patron requests, preservation concerns, publication or exhibits, etc.) into the publicly available digital repository. As the repository was being developed, the staff of Joyner Library decided that the traditional approach to presenting digitized special collections materials as a sort of online "exhibit" where materials are selected to illustrate a theme or to systematically convert an entire collection to the digital format would not work. Instead, the staff experimented with different ways to enhance user browsing through materials. They looked to the world of commercial websites, next generation catalog interfaces, and social networking sites to develop a suite of navigation tools that enhance serendipitous discovery using their own home-grown solutions that are built on top of an SQL database and an XML database. The final collection interface includes: broad thematic "collections", "tag cloud"-style navigation, and a faceted-browsing refinement tool, all developed from cataloguer-created subject headings; hyperlinked terms in item records to facilitate broadening searches; links back and forth between collection finding aids and other digital resources at the library; user commenting and tagging of resources to begin to integrate emerging folksonomies.TRANSCRIPT
Just Keep Clicking Till You Just Keep Clicking Till You Find ItFind It
Building a Library Digital Collection with Browsing in Mind
Gretchen Gueguen, Digital Initiatives LibrarianJ.Y. Joyner [email protected]
1. Behind the Magic…Designing the Program
2. Our Adoring Public…Users and their uses
3. A Better Mousetrap…Designing the System
4. EvaluationAnalytics, Usage, and Other Indicators
Miss Pitt County rehearsal. (1966). The Daily Reflector Negative Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/8837
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Introducing Digital Collections...
Finding Aid Interface
“Ad hoc” Digitization
Requests
RepositoryRepository
Digital Collections and Exhibits
Digital Collections and Exhibits
Digitized Materials not included in a collection or exhibit
(ad-hoc digitization)
Digitized Materials not included in a collection or exhibit
(ad-hoc digitization)
Finding Aids to digital and analog collections
Finding Aids to digital and analog collections
UserUser
System Needs
UNIFIEDUNIFIED
FLEXIBLEFLEXIBLE
MODULARMODULAR
Masquerade party in China. (undated). James N. Joyner Papers. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/1554
Our
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ublic
Typical Users
Humanities Users
• Users of archival materials– How do they search?“…humanities scholars and other researchers… rely
heavily on browsing, collecting, rereading and notetaking. They tend to compile a wide variety of sources…assembling, organizing, reading, analyzing and writing.” – Palmer, et.al. 2009
– What do they expect?• Diverse primary resources• To be able to create their own context• Better pedagogical toolsIn other words…access to primary sources and
tools for deep reading and interpretation
Typical Users
Undergraduate Users• Users of
Research Materials– How do
they search?• General, thematic searches• “Just keep clicking until I find it”• Familiar with the web, but perhaps not research resources
–What do they expect?• Everything they need is online• All searches are like Google
• What’s a finding aid?
Finding aids enmeshed with digital objects
Finding aids enmeshed with digital objects
Organization/Guidance
Broad CategorizationBroad CategorizationFaceted manipulation of
resultsFaceted manipulation of
results
Now What?
Data-driven discovery
Tag clouds (for serendipity and browsing, gauging the scope)
Tag clouds (for serendipity and browsing, gauging the scope)
Hyperlinks in records
Hyperlinks in records
Full Text SearchFull Text Search
Personalization
The improved Jordan grits separator. (1915).F. Rehm and Sons Company Records. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/803
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Mouse
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REPOSITOREPOSITORY BASICSRY BASICS
Layer 1
Repository Basics: Architecture
Vs.familiar
supported
Already in use
shareable
More flexible?
Starting over
Image/audio/video files
Image/audio/video files
XML documents/METS
XML documents/METS
Index/TEXTMLIndex/TEXTML
User search Search results User search Search results
ReadSend
Web application / ASP.NET
Repository Basics: Metadata• Database built of METS records
– dmdSec• MODS • DC for descriptive sections• TEI when transcriptions exist• Locally created sections for tags/comments
– amdSec• MIX/AudioMD/VideoMD• Currently no preservation metadata other than what is
already captured by MIX– fileSec
• Placeholder for Master• Location of Access and Thumb surrogates
• EAD schemas integrated separately
XML documents/METS
XML documents/METS
37th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment History (#MF0040)5th North Carolina Infantry Regiment Collection (#874)A New and Correct Map of the Province of N.C. (#MC0035)Abernethy, Charles Laban, Jr., Papers (#98)Adams, Faye B., Oral History Interview (#OH0251)Agricultural Resources Center Pesticide Education Project Records (#905)Ainsworth, Walden Lee, Papers (#250)Albright Family Papers (#70)Albright, R. Mayne, Oral History Interview (#OH0036)Alder, Mavis M., Oral History Interview (#OH0217)Alford, Mike, Collection (#1094)Allen, Sarah, Papers (#471)Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis Tabula Generalis Map (#MC0023)American Legion Pitt County Post #39 Papers (#120)Amis-Clark-Puryear Papers (#474)Ammons, A. R., Papers (#1096)Anastasion, Steven N., Collection (#913)
Collections
DYNAMIC DYNAMIC INTERACTIINTERACTIONON
Layer 2
20,018
10,0767,932 6,856
6,151
Slope: -1
Slope: -81
Image/audio/video files
Image/audio/video files
METS/XML documentsMETS/XML documents
Index/TEXTMLIndex/TEXTML
SQL databaseSQL database
ReadSendWrite
Admin form/add tag User search Search results & comment/tag cloud/ faceted results
Admin form/add tag User search Search results & comment/tag cloud/ faceted results
Web application / ASP.NET
ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL RESOURCESRESOURCES
Layer 3
Additional Resources
Eastern North Carolina
Digital Library
Eastern North Carolina
Digital Library
East Carolina Manuscript Collection
Guides
East Carolina Manuscript Collection
Guides
Joyner Library Catalog
Joyner Library Catalog
Research DatabasesResearch
Databases
LibGuidesLibGuides Library WebsiteLibrary
Website
InternetInternet
Image/audio/video files
Image/audio/video files
METS/XML documentsMETS/XML documents
Index/TEXTMLIndex/TEXTML
Local XML documentsLocal XML
documents
ENCDL Index/
TEXTML
ENCDL Index/
TEXTML
EAD/XML documentsEAD/XML
documents
EAD Index/TEXTML
EAD Index/TEXTML
SQL databaseSQL database
Image/audio/video
files
Image/audio/video
files
Admin form/tag/comment User search Search results Admin form/tag/comment User search Search results
Web application / ASP.NET
Presented award. (1964).The Daily Reflector Negative Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/6798
Evalu
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Workers holding protest signs. (2007). Workers Vanguard no. 891. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/843
Organization/Guidance thematic collections faceted refinement better integration with finding aids
Data-driven Discovery subject cloud searching full text across multiple sources hyperlinks in records
Personalization comments and tags personal collections tools for reusing collections
Anecdotal Evidence
• Use in English 1200, History Classes• Use of A.R. Ammons collection by
several scholars• Will add a collection specifically for
the Interior Design program in the autumn.
• Not “Mass Digitization” but “Mass Representation”
Orville Wright Glider Flights - Cyanotype #3. (1911).The Alpheus W. Drinkwater Collection. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/1388
Bibliography• Fallows, Deborah. Pew Internet and American Life Project: Search Engine Use.
Available: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Search_Aug08.pdf (February 5, 2009).
• Head, Alison J. “Information Literacy from the Trenches: How Do Humanities and Social Science Majors Conduct Academic Research?” College and Research Libraries. 2008; 69:5.
• Palmer, Carole L., Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann. 2009. Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development. Report commissioned by OCLC Research. Published online at: www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-02.pdf
• Proffitt and Schaffner. 2008. The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship: Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities. Report produced by OCLC Programs and Research. Published online at: www.oclc.org/programs/reports/2008-04.pdf
• Sinclair, James and Michael Cardew-Hall. “The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful?” Journal of Information Science. 2008; 34; 15.
Contact
Gretchen GueguenDigital Initiatives LibrarianJ.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina
http://personal.ecu.edu/guegueng/readings/JustKeepClicking.ppt