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WGBH Open Vault Working with MERLOT to Build a Multi-Discipline Browsing Hierarchy - Karen Colbron and Helen Brady -
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Project overview 3 different sites developed from 3 different grants: New Television Workshop Experimental video art Say Brother Local series on African American Community in Boston Ten O’clock News Nightly local news series - select stories on African American community in Boston and busing
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Issues with the 3 previous sites No cross reference No cross searching Each site evolved with more sophistication
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Overall goal Bring 3 sites together with cross searchable metadata and general subject heading browsing Add approximately 50 new assets from the WGBH archive
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What are the new assets? 44 interviews from War and Peace in the Nuclear Age 1 interview from Vietnam: A Television History 1 interview from Press and the People 5 public domain assets to contextualize the interview material
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Open Vault http://openvault.wgbh.org
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Project Goals Catalogue Items Create a browsing hierarchy Provide subject-based access to resources
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Collections New Television Workshop Say Brother Ten O’Clock News War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
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Choosing MERLOT Strengths: Higher Ed. Focus Science Pedagogy Business History Less Developed Areas History of Education Educational Structure/ Institutions Social Science Arts
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Hierarchy Parameters At Least 3 levels of detail for each item The top 2 levels from MERLOT The final level would be a Library of Congress term
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Supplementary Vocabularies used Library of Congress UNESCO INTUTE
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Tools Used MERLOT Subject Categories http://www.merlot.org/merlot/categories.htm http://www.merlot.org/merlot/categories.htm Classification Web http://classificationweb.net/http://classificationweb.net/ UNESCO Thesaurus http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/thesaurus.htmhttp://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/thesaurus.htm INTUTE Social Science Thesaurus http://www.intute.ac.uk/http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Library of Congress Authority Headings http://authorities.loc.gov/http://authorities.loc.gov/ Filemaker Pro Database
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Browsing Hierarchy versus Searching Ability to find items using complex, compound categories (e.g. African Americans - Relations with law enforcement) Precision
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Outcomes 1366 of items catalogued Browsing hierarchy created Precision finding tool Collocation of resources
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