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The Cross-Search and Context Utility: Contextualizing Digital Content and

The Cross-Search and Context Utility: Contextualizing Digital Content and Associated Encoded Archival Description Finding Aid Metadata in the Northwest Sam Meister University of Montana Digital Frontiers 2013 September 20, 2013. What / who is nwda ? . P roblem .

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The Cross-Search and Context Utility: Contextualizing Digital Content and

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  1. The Cross-Search and Context Utility: Contextualizing Digital Content and Associated Encoded Archival Description Finding Aid Metadata in the Northwest Sam Meister University of Montana Digital Frontiers 2013 September 20, 2013

  2. What / who is nwda?

  3. Problem

  4. Online Finding Aids

  5. “What is this? You want me to read all of this?”

  6. Online Finding Aids Hierarchical display is confusing / difficult Users want to customize their experience Users want direct access to content Novice users struggle with archival terminology

  7. Digital Content

  8. Google Bing Yahoo

  9. Finding Aid Finding Aid

  10. Previous Studies & Research Usability testing conducted by NWDA (2006-2008) and others on EAD finding aids systems. Survey of Digitizing Initiatives (2007) Researcher Type Survey (2007-2008) Researcher Needs Study (2008-2009) Literature on EAD and on digital representations of archival content

  11. Recommendations / Requirements

  12. Search across digital content and online finding aids

  13. Expose materials to search engines rather than be new “portal”

  14. Combine digital content and all metadata to provide context

  15. Give users a way to quickly sort and limit results

  16. Give users a clear way to contact institutions

  17. Give users information on getting copies, permissions, and more information from archivists

  18. Provide contextual information that’s not long, hierarchical, and full of archival terminology

  19. Partners Technical Team Alliance Staff Project Advisors

  20. Partners Technical Team Alliance Staff Users Project Advisors

  21. Project team / roles

  22. Not about metadata and systems

  23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658230838/

  24. Methodology / Training

  25. Design User Centered Design User Feedback Prototype Test

  26. Research Faculty Administrator Avocational Geneaologist Student Teaching Faculty

  27. Technical Development

  28. METADATA + DIGITAL OBJECTS

  29. NWDA EAD DATABASE EADs

  30. XCU NWDA EAD DATABASE

  31. Challenge: Variable Metadata

  32. <identifier>oooooooo</identifier> <date>llllllll</date> <identifier>zzzzzzzz</identifier> <date>wwwwwwwwww</date> <identifier>bbbbbbb</identifier> <date>mmmmmm</date>

  33. <identifier>oooooooo</identifier> <date>llllllll</date> *MAGIC* (aka a lot of custom work and scripting) MODS

  34. <mods> <identifier type="XCU-MODS">MODS-8652</identifier> <titleInfo> <title>Nestucca Sand Spit</title> </titleInfo> <name> <namePart>Straub, Robert W.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm>Creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <originInfo> <dateCreated>1966-05-08T07:00:00Z</dateCreated> </originInfo>

  35. EAD + MODS XCU

  36. xcu testing site

  37. User Testing

  38. Research Faculty Administrator Avocational Geneaologist Student Teaching Faculty

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