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==End of Term Archive – Collection Development== | ==End of Term Archive – Collection Development== | ||
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| + | <p>'''Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development to Web Archives'''</p> | ||
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| + | <p>The EOTCD project will be researching two areas of the collection development needs of government information. The materials in the 2008-2009 End-of-Term (EOT) Web will be classified according to the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) Classification Numbering System, which is a classification scheme that is well-established. This Web archive from this time period contains the federal government’s public Web presence before and after the 2009 presidential administration change. Classifying government information in SuDocs will allow librarians to use their existent collection development policies when selecting materials, since the SuDocs is a recognized classification system. The second part of this project involves identifying a metric for materials in Web archives, since no established metric currently exists. The results will enable librarians to translate measurable units for selected materials in Web archives to units more familiar to libraries and their administrations. </p> | ||
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| + | <p>The University of North Texas is partnering with the Internet Archive in this forward-thinking project that will investigate innovative solutions to two research questions:</p> | ||
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| + | <p>1. How effective is the organization of large-scale unstructured Web archives using a pre-defined classification system, the SuDocs classification numbering system, as evaluated by government information librarians?<br /> | ||
| + | 2. What measurable units for the materials in Web archives best support management acquisition decisions in libraries?</p> | ||
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| + | '''Helpful Information''' | ||
[[Project Team]] | [[Project Team]] | ||
[[Subject Matter Experts]] | [[Subject Matter Experts]] | ||
Revision as of 12:07, 18 March 2010
End of Term Archive – Collection Development
Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development to Web Archives
The EOTCD project will be researching two areas of the collection development needs of government information. The materials in the 2008-2009 End-of-Term (EOT) Web will be classified according to the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) Classification Numbering System, which is a classification scheme that is well-established. This Web archive from this time period contains the federal government’s public Web presence before and after the 2009 presidential administration change. Classifying government information in SuDocs will allow librarians to use their existent collection development policies when selecting materials, since the SuDocs is a recognized classification system. The second part of this project involves identifying a metric for materials in Web archives, since no established metric currently exists. The results will enable librarians to translate measurable units for selected materials in Web archives to units more familiar to libraries and their administrations.
The University of North Texas is partnering with the Internet Archive in this forward-thinking project that will investigate innovative solutions to two research questions:
1. How effective is the organization of large-scale unstructured Web archives using a pre-defined classification system, the SuDocs classification numbering system, as evaluated by government information librarians?
2. What measurable units for the materials in Web archives best support management acquisition decisions in libraries?
Helpful Information
