Thursday, April 2, 2009

D101: Digital Preservation, E-Government & ERM

Session D101: Digital Preservation, E-Government & ERM

National Defense University -preserving government policy documents
slides on CiL site or p. 68 in notes book

ERM -Anna Creech, Cindi Trainor

capturing data that is necessary and/or will enhance user experience
ERM data useful for librarians
what about users?

users are confused by...
-multiple points of access
-terminology (database, A-Z list)
-vanishing full-text (how do librarians know when changes are taking place?)
-different user interfaces between databases

what do they want? hint: it begins with a G

data elements + user needs = awesome!
-trial fields populate public list or RSS (free trials, new resources, cancellations, etc.)
-usage stats for ranking search results
-license terms in plain English

but wait, there's more....
commercial ERMs are expensive & don't interoperate well with library systems
-free alternatives: wikis, libguides
-make sure these can do what you need for pushing the info out to users

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