If We Build it, Will They Come?
Providing Enhanced Access to an
Archive-It Collection
LAGDA - Latin American Government
Documents Archive
Kent Norsworthy
The University of Texas at Austin
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
The University of Texas at Austin
LAGDA Basics
• Collaborative effort
– Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC
– Benson Latin American Collection
– University of Texas Libraries
• 2005: One of original five Archive-It Pilot
Partners
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Collection Focus
• .gov Web sites from Latin America
• All major Spanish-speaking countries in
the region, plus Brazil
• Sample of ministries: health, economy,
defense, agriculture, environment, etc.
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Collection Objectives
• Supplement Benson print collection
• Born digital and no longer issued in print
• Short life: average 44 days for a Web
page, typically less in Latin America
• Platform for research
• Historical record
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LAGDA by the Numbers
• @275 seeds, quarterly crawls, 5 years
• 18 Latin Am. & Caribbean countries
• Over 50 million docs/files archived
• Over 4.5 TB of data
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Access Defined
• Goal: free and open access
• Easy for researchers to find and use
• Usage: about 2K pageviews a month
• About 100 inlinks from .edu libraries
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Access: Find It
• Basic Google/Bing searches=top 5 results
• WorldCat
• UT Home Page
• UT Libraries Home Page
• Direct external links
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Access: Use It
• Multiple points/modes of access
• Users, thus interface, in EN, ES, & PT
• Browse: all or selections
• Search: integrated on site
• Proxy Mode
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Access: New & Upcoming
• LAGDA posts on Twitter
• xml metadata feed for federated search
• New document level metadata to
incorporate directly into library catalog
• Data Mining and Data Visualization
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Contact
• Comments? Questions?
• http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
• kentn@mail.utexas.edu
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