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Engaging metadata in HathiTrust to enhance access and discovery: The Cornell Veterinarian Metadata Working Group Forum Project Team: John Cline, Steven Folsom, Michelle Paolillo, Jaron Porciello
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Our aim We discuss how enabling article-level access for full-text articles residing in HathiTrust to citations in PubMed facilitates a familiar and useful research experience for the community of practice; We describe the sociotechnical process of our work and some of the factors in our decision-making
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Our case: Cornell Veterinarian A peer-review journal published by the Alumni Association and Society of Comparative Medicine, New York State Veterinary College College, from 1911-1994; The journal is highly regarded in the field; The Veterinary Library had funding and interest in making this title digitally available through scanning and hosting in e-Commons; The entire run of the journal is fully available in HathiTrust; Citations are available in PubMed, without links to full-text
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Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services Middleware service between technical experts and stakeholders; Manage digital content creation and provide specific services such as digitization, preservation, digital publishing, repository services, copyright, web development and business modeling
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SocialTechnical Where social meets technical HathiTrust does not have a linkable table of contents. Researchers rely on this to browse for articles of interest; Cornell Veterinarian journal articles are unavailable to researchers in their natural research “habitat,” PubMed. It is unlikely they will seek out the content in HT. HathiTrust is full-text searchable. A linked table of contents is of little value if full-text search is enabled; The journal is fully and openly available in HathiTrust, even if direct links to articles are not provided
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Scenarios and possibilities Economic All of our outcomes require staff investment, but the outcomes are radically different A: Scan, develop front-end interface:, and deposit in e- Commons: Cornell Vet is online with linked TOC. B: Explore HT metadata: Unknown. We might be able to provide full-text links to HT in a front-end interface or provide to PubMed. Responsible digital stewardship The material has already been digitized and available in a preservation repository; If we create a boutique collection, are we ignoring the “natural habitat” part of our scenario? We already contribute to HathiTrust. If we re-digitize, are we double-charging our own institution? If we are successful, we can contribute code back to HathiTrust so others can replicate this process.
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