Also included is information on the HathiTrust Research Center that describes the creation of “Meandre workflow components (Meandre is part of the SEASR infrastructure) that retrieve texts from the HTRC using the HTRC data API, spell-check the texts, correct OCR errors, and then perform topic modeling on the texts. The HTRC has demonstrated this functionality, creating topic models of all pages returned from the data API from single-word queries on a full-text index of volumes. For example, a search for “dickens” in the non-Google digitized public domain corpus returns more than 100 topics with associated keywords. The diagrams below show tag clouds of keywords for the topics ‘lady’ and ‘men’.”  The tag clouds are fascinating—take a look.  

In other news, the HathiTrust collection continues to grow, with over 80,000 volumes ingested in April. HathiTrust is now approaching 3 million volumes in the public domain—2,903,378 volumes, or approximately 28% of total.

RecordEXPRESS is a simple web form contributors can use to create a single-level, minimum collection record and immediately publish it on the OAC. Specifically, the utility enables contributors to:

• Quickly fill in a handful of fields to create a collection guide that is compliant with Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS, the national standard for archival description).
• Immediately preview and directly publish the guide to the OAC with the push of a button.
• Attach one or more PDF documents to the guide. This may be handy in cases where contributors have detailed listings or inventories of materials in the collection, or a legacy finding aid that has not been encoded in EAD. These PDFs will soon be fully integrated with and searchable in the OAC.
• Obtain an Encoded Archival Description (EAD)-formatted export of the guide, for local use.

RecordEXPRESS was designed for institutions that either do not have the means or resources to easily create EAD- or MARC21-based collection guides, or may have legacy finding aids that are not worth converting into EAD at this time. With this and other services, the CDL is hoping to support institutions with “more product, less process”-based approaches to expose archival and special collections materials that would otherwise be hidden.

View an example of an OAC collection guide created with RecordEXPRESS.

Development of this tool was supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources as part of its Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Program.

• One stop for EZID and all EZID information, including webinars, FAQs, and more.
  

  Image by Simon Cousins

• A clean, bright new look.
• No more hunting across two locations for the materials and information you need.

• NEW Manage IDs functions:
• View all identifiers created by logged-in account;
• View most recent 10 interactions–based on the account–not the session;
• See the scope of your identifier work without any API programming.

• NEW in the UI: Reserve an Identifier
• Create identifiers early in the research cycle;
• Choose whether or not you want to make your identifier public–reserve them if you don’t;
• On the Manage screen, view the identifier’s status (public, reserved, unavailable/just testing).

In the coming months, we will also be introducing these EZID user interface enhancements:

• Enhanced support for DataCite metadata in the UI;
• Reporting support for institution-level clients.

So, stay tuned: EZID just gets better and better!

The overlap period for locally licensed and systemwide licensed resources is intended to begin the week of May 6, with a full transition to the new platform for these resources on August 1.  The August 1 date is tentative, dependent on the resolution of outstanding technical issues that affect off-campus access at UCD, UCI, UCR and UCSF. CDL has been working closely with these campuses to resolve the connectivity issues. The overlap access period allows users and library staff to allow for gaining familiarity and experience with the new platform while having the legacy platform available as needed. 

A link to a list of the CDL-licensed ProQuest databases is below.   (Your campus may have additional databases from ProQuest not included here, which will also be transitioned when the systemwide databases are transitioned in August.)  The PIDs for the CDL-licensed databases will be updated to go to an interim screen where users can choose between the legacy and new versions of the databases.  The interim pages also provide a space for detailed information and caveats regarding access to the new platform.

When the transition is complete, the PIDs will be directed to the new platform. 

A full list of the databases with their PIDs as well as additional information is available at:

http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/docs/transitions/ProQuest_Systemwide_Database_Transition.doc

Training Materials for the New ProQuest Interface

ProQuest has a rich array of training materials for their new interface.  For the bulk of materials, go to

http://proquest.com/go/training

The materials range from links to YouTube tutorials, Quick Start Reference Overview, user guides, posters, table tents and more.  (Ignore the links on the upper left hand corner and focus on the links in the middle of the page.)  Some training materials are available in multiple languages, so if you’re an English language speaker, make sure you choose one in English. 

ProQuest has also created a number of LibGuides for their resources, available at

http://proquest.libguides.com/

On the LibGuides Web pages, you can find guides to specific databases, links to live Webinars and recordings, as well as screencasts and tutorials. 

UC’s ProQuest Trainer Aimee Leverette has already or will be contacting the campus libraries to conduct in-person training sessions.  Stay tuned for more information on face-to-face training.

Last month we distributed the first set of records for the Alexander Street Press collection, Theatre in Video (350 titles). This is also the first time SCP has distributed bibliographic records for videos. Theatre in Video contains performances of plays and film documentaries. Included are live television broadcasts of New York productions from the 1950s, experimental performances from the 1960s and 70s, and revivals of classical works. The collection contains performances from as early as the 1930s.

Other major monograph distributions for the month were for Open Access (801 titles, of which 782 were National Academy Press titles), Springer (486 titles), Wiley (136 titles), ACM (124 titles), IEEE (121 titles), and Apabi (52 titles). The only significant serial distributions were for Open Access (147 titles), most of which were DOAJ titles.

In response to a request from CDL’s Joint Steering Committee, quarterly package cataloging statistics now show if a package’s title count had a net increase or net decrease from the previous quarter. The first quarter statistics are posted at http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/2012q1.pdf. Additionally, the Chinese language packages are grouped together and presented at the end after the statistics for California documents. We hope these changes will help make our work efforts more visible and allow you to find information of interest more quickly.

SCP is now ready to move forward on the Unicode transition. Test files have been posted for each of the campuses which contain records for the same set of titles we sent for testing earlier this year. The files include Chinese records with problem characters, a record in each JACKPHY language except Yiddish, and records in Cyrillic, Thai, and Vietnamese, as well as a few Western European languages. The records contain a 599 with the text UPD |b Unicode test |c 120419. A text file of the records is provided for comparison purposes. Please report any problems you have with the test file records to either Kate (kgarveyclasby@ucsd.edu) or Adolfo (atarango@ucsd.edu) within the next three weeks. The timeline below list the type of files you will be receiving over the next several weeks. Assuming no problems are reported, permanent distribution of the SCP files in Unicode will commence with the files posted on May 14, 2012.

SCP Unicode transition timeline:

Apr 16   MARC8 files
Apr 19   Unicode test file
Apr 23   MARC8 files
Apr 30   MARC8 files
May 7    MARC8 files
May 9    Deadline for problem reports on Unicode files
May 14  Unicode files
 

Until next month …

 You can see the OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report here.

The top ten papers from the first quarter of 2012, by campus:

• UCB “Library Terms That Users Understand” by John Kupersmith, LAUC-B and Library Staff Research
• UCD “Using Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Costs to Estimate Hydrogen Pipeline Costs” by Nathan Parker, Institute of Transportation Studies
• UCI “A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008/2009 Economic Crisis” by Andrey V Korotayev, Sergey V. Tsirel, Structure and Dynamics
• UCLA “An Introduction To Green Marketing” by Michael Jay Polonsky, Electronic Green Journal
• UCM “Recently Discovered Accounts Concerning the “Lone Woman” of San Nicolas Island” by Travis Hudson, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
• UCR “Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change” by S Lyubomirsky, K M Sheldon, D Schkade, UC Riverside Postprints
• UCSB “Twain’s Rhetoric of Irony in ‘the War-Prayer’” by Helen Lock, Journal of Transnational American Studies
• UCSC “The World Distribution of Household Wealth” by James B. Davies, Anthony Shorrocks, Susanna Sandstrom, Edward N. Wolff, Mapping Global Inequalities
• UCSD “A Tale of Two Borders: The U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Lines After 9/11” by Peter Andreas, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
• UCSF “Machine Learning Benchmarks and Random Forest Regression” by Mark R Segal, Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics

Launched in 2002, eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.  To learn more about helping your faculty and colleagues participate in this exciting open access service, contact your campus Scholarly Communications Officer or Justin Gonder at the CDL (help@escholarship.org).

http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/

SNAC is a collaboration between project partners at the University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; UC Berkeley School of Information; and the CDL.  The second phase of the project will span from 2012 through 2014.

The SNAC project is addressing a longstanding research challenge: discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. Scholars use these records as primary evidence for the lives and work of historical persons and the events in which they participated. These records are held in archives and manuscript libraries, large and small, around the world, and scholars may need to search scores of different archives, following clues, hunches, and leads to find the records relevant to their topic (and it is likely that at least some records will remain undiscovered). SNAC aims to not only make the records more easily discovered and accessed but also, and at the same time, build an unprecedented resource that provides access to the socio-historical contexts (which includes people, families, and corporate bodies) in which the records were created.

The project uses a recently released Society of American Archivists communication standard for encoding information about persons, corporate bodies, and families, Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF). EAC-CPF standardizes descriptions of people and groups who are documented in archival records.

The pilot stage of the project was funded by a 2010 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which supported development of a prototype historical research and access system.  This next stage encompasses a range of tasks: the project team will vastly expand the source data employed in the project; develop new methods and tools for extracting and assembling archival authority descriptions; enhance methods for matching and combining records describing the same entity; develop methods for accommodating descriptive data in languages other than English; add geographic coordinates to place names; develop timeline-map rendering of chronological biographies or histories (lists of dates, places, and events); enable scholarly users of the prototype to query social-professional networks; develop graphical displays of complex, dense networks; and develop graphical displays of organizational charts, and sequential displays of organizations merging or dividing.

Thirteen consortia and over thirty-five leading research repositories in the U.S., U.K., and France are contributing source data, either finding aids or archival authority records. Among the contributing repositories are the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, British Library (BL), Archives nationales (France), and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). OCLC WorldCat is contributing over one million MARC archival descriptions. OCLC VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) and the Getty Vocabulary Program are contributing authority records to be used in match processing. By expanding the quantity and diversity of the data, the project will be able to further develop its processing, indexing, and display methods, public interface design, as well as address the challenge of scale.