Acquiring Unique Collections: Collaborative Approaches to Metadata

Acquisition of unique digital material is an ongoing challenge for Special Collections units—often unique digital material comes with little or no metadata associated with the digital objects. Using two ongoing projects at the University of Oregon Libraries as case studies, this paper explores strategies archivists and librarians can use to increase descriptive metadata coming in with unique born-digital collections. Library staff involved with the Latino Roots and University of Oregon Veterans Oral History projects work with the content creators, in this case faculty and students, to build collections with rich descriptive information that is relevant both to librarians and to the communities being documented

Using Topic Modeling to Enhance Access to Digital Government and Archival Collections

Providing access to digital collections can be problematic, librarians and archivists are inundated with poorly described born-digital materials with scant metadata. Topic modeling, a method of statistical analysis that can discover thematic elements within a set of documents, allows archivists and librarians working with digital collections to describe and make accessible digital material without laborious manual processing.Our presentation will show how libraries can easily implement topic modeling in diverse library environments dealing with digital texts

Bibliographica (Issue 2)

The second issue of Bibliographica (Spring 2005) featured Julie Russell-Steuart introducing her Caveworks Press [blacked out due to absence of permission for online archiving], a few thoughts spurred by Kat Ran Press's ephemera club, and an overview of the fine press collections at the University of Minnesota

Bibliographica (Issue 4)

In the fourth issue of Bibliographica (Fall 2005), Sarah Vickers writes about the social connections that make the world of private presses so enjoyable. There are also reviews of books from Caveworks Press and Press on Scroll Road as well as coverage of fine press news in "Seen and Heard.