PORTALS FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE :
APS SUBJECT GUIDESMichael Miller
American Philosophical Society
22 October 2011
APS LIBRARY WEBSITE
EAD FINDING AIDS
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WHY SUBJECT GUIDES?
Means of introduction to a manuscript library Improves access to collections Highlights important collections Encourages browsing in a closed-stack
environment Least effort Powerful searching tool
FROM PRINTED GUIDES TO TEXT ON A WEB
HTML SUBJECT GUIDES
OCR ERROR
MODERNIZING THE GUIDES
EXTENSIBLE TEXT FRAMEWORK (XTF)
UTILIZING ARCHIVISTS’ TOOLKIT
INTEGRATING GUIDES IN TO FINDING AIDS
IMPROVING METADATA FORMAT, CONTENT
Dublin Core LC & DACS
A LOOK AT THE NEW GUIDES…
ANTHROPOLOGY
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
QUANTUM PHYSICS
GENETICS
GENETICS – SUBJECT CORRECTIONS
Before… After…
NATIVE AMERICAN – CALL NUMBERS
Before… After…
NATIVE AMERICAN – FACETS
NATIVE AMERICAN – BIBLIOGRAPHY
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY – SPLASH PAGE
CONCLUDING REMARKS…
SUBJECT GUIDE AS A PORTAL
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