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East Asian Content in Integrated Systems— HathiTrust and the New Melvyl : Progress and Challenges. UCEAB/EAALC Meeting September 15, 2011 Emily Lin UC Merced. Late-Breaking News. East Asian Content in HathiTrust. Total volumes: 9,601,328 Chinese: 233,190 (4.15%)
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East Asian Content in Integrated Systems—HathiTrustand the New Melvyl: Progress and Challenges UCEAB/EAALC Meeting September 15, 2011 Emily Lin UC Merced
East Asian Content in HathiTrust • Total volumes: 9,601,328 • Chinese: 233,190 (4.15%) • Japanese: 184,026 (3.28%) • Korean: 28,474 (0.51%) • Public domain volumes: total 2,623,015 • Chinese: 7,799 (0.59%) • Japanese: 5,388 (0.41%) • Korean: 190 (0.01%)
Poll: Do you use HathiTrust as an information resource?
Progress • Provide users with direct access to item • Provide recommender features • Offer alternative actions for failed or suspect searches • Offer better navigation of large sets of search results • Provide relevance ranking and leverage full-text • Create a single catalog interface for all of UC • Support searching across the entire bibliographic information space
Challenges • Provide better searching for non-Roman materials • Rearchitect cataloging workflow • View UC cataloging as a single enterprise • Implement a single data store for UC • Automate Metadata Creation • Support Continuous Improvement
Discussion • What are common challenges to search and discovery of East Asian content? • What are some strategies for overcoming challenges?