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The University of Texas at Austin
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 Austinhttp://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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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
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
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.http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
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 recordhttp://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
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
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
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
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
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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The University of Texas at Austin
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
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
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
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
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The University of Texas at Austin
Contact
• Comments? Questions?
• http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/