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Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge Zoe Bliss AHDS History May 2005

Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge Zoe Bliss AHDS History May 2005. Background Identifying potential acquisitions Ensuring offers of deposit Collection priorities Acquisitions review Evaluation of potential deposits Competing demands Conclusions. Background.

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Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge Zoe Bliss AHDS History May 2005

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  1. Identifying quality acquisitions from a data deluge Zoe Bliss AHDS History May 2005

  2. Background • Identifying potential acquisitions • Ensuring offers of deposit • Collection priorities • Acquisitions review • Evaluation of potential deposits • Competing demands • Conclusions

  3. Background • 1990 – Feasibility study K. Schürer and S. J. Anderson with the assistance of J. A. Duncan, comp. A guide to historical datafiles held in machine-readable form (Association for History and Computing, London, 1992). • 1993 – History Data Unit • 1996 – History Data Service Part of Arts and Humanities Data Service AHDS (hosted by the UK Data Archive, University of Essex). • 2003 – AHDS History

  4. Identifying potential acquisitions • Surveys • Funding bodies: AHRC, ESRC and British Academy • Offers from data creators • Strategic Relationships • Recommendations • Personal contacts Identification Evaluation Deposit Collection

  5. Ensuring offers of deposit • Requirement to deposit • AHRC Technical Appendix assessment • AHRC requirement to contact AHDS • Project start up Workshop Risk management and contingency planning Workflow Case study on the Fine Art project Digital sustainability Case study on utilising third party datasets Why both digitising? Websites in an Academic Environment Identification Evaluation Deposit Collection

  6. Collection Priorities (1996) • Community histories • Wages and price time series • Nineteenth-century censuses • British historical statistics • Digitised boundary data Identification Evaluation Deposit Collection

  7. Acquisitions Review (2003) • History of childhood • Crusades • Material culture • Elections • Film history • History of education • Imperial history • Local and regional history • Maritime history • History of Poverty • Wages and Prices Identification Evaluation Deposit Collection

  8. Competing demands Identification Evaluation Deposit Collection

  9. Conclusions • Technical Quality • Usability • Potential for re-use • Publicly funded projects - offered • Thematic core collections • Directed and pro-active • Pragmatic • Flexible Identification Evaluation Deposit Collection http://ahds.ac.uk/history/index.htm

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