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Dissertation done: a recap of the ProQuestElectronic Theses & Dissertations PurchasedBackfile Project, Phase 1Kelly J. ThompsonIowa State University, kellyt@iastate.edu
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Recommended CitationThompson, Kelly J., "Dissertation done: a recap of the ProQuest Electronic Theses & Dissertations Purchased Backfile Project, Phase1" (2015). Collections and Technical Services Conference Proceedings, Presentations and Posters. Paper 2.http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/libcat_conf/2
A Recap of the ProQuest Electronic Theses & Dissertations Purchased Backfile Project, Phase 1
http://www.troll.me/2012/03/04/uncategorized/dissertation-done/
Kelly Thompson, Metadata Management and Cataloging LibrarianIowa State University Librarian Assembly, May 15th, 2015
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theses and dissertations
Masters theses PhD dissertations
Born digitalMasters theses
Born digital PhD dissertations
physical copies of Masters theses
physical copies of PhD dissertations
borderlands objects
borderlands objects
Born digitalMasters theses
Born digital PhD dissertations
physical copies of Masters theses
physical copies of PhD dissertations
which were microfilmed by
UMI
borderlands objects
borderlands objects
File and record wrangling
MARC XML records
15,188 PDF filespdf
ProQuest
MARC records
Aleph
File and record wrangling
15,188 PDF filespdf
Ready for the DR
repository records
(.csv)
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
100 10 $a Lu, Helen Hong-Min.
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
100 10 $a Lu, Helen Hong-Min, $d 1961- .
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
100 10 $a Lu, Helen Hong-Min, Jr.
Metadata crosswalks
245 10 $a Determinants of family size : $b sex-role orientation and value of children / $c by Helen Hong-Min Lu.
100 10 $a Hong-Min Lu.
Metadata crosswalks
Black History
African American Studies; United States History;
Metadata crosswalks
260 0/ $c 1978.690 // $a Family environment.
Keywords: Family environmentDepartment: Home Economics;
Historic department names
Historic department names
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/catalog/
Metadata work done by catalogers
Metadata work done by catalogers
Look at the item!
Metadata work done by catalogers
Quality control
Metadata work done by catalogers
Department names
Managing these batches
• 214 batches• Each batch 50-100 documents• September 3rd, 2014 – May 4th, 2015, with a clean-
up/quality control break over January and February
• I’ve also been working on the in-house-digitized masters theses and the vendor-digitized masters theses – so far I’ve uploaded 319
Managing these batches
Managing these batches
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319, 1%
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15507 documents have been downloaded
251,167 times
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3489815, 93%
251167, 7%
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2193 have never been
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Discoverability problems
Discoverability problems
Primo WorldCat
DR
Discoverability problems
Primo WorldCat
DR
• Department mappings
• New ETDs and old “RTDs”
Discoverability problems
Primo WorldCat
DR• Update ProQuest URLs in Aleph to DR URLs
• What is considered a dissertation/thesis in Primo?? [type mapping]
Discoverability problems
Primo WorldCat
DR • Update ProQuest URLs to DR URLs
• Metadata API via PHP?
Next steps
http://www.troll.me/2012/09/05/badass-aragorn/a-day-may-come-when-the-editing-of-your-thesis-is-finised-but-it-is-not-this-day/
Next steps
• Clean-up problems in Aleph MARC records discovered during project (502 fields, etc.)
• Finish URL updates in Aleph and OCLC
• DR stuff – especially interdisciplinary majors and no-longer-existing departments
• Update Primo mappings to ensure resource types include DR theses and dissertations
• Update search guidelines on library webpage
Shoutouts
• Eric Parsons• 7 cataloging staff members on this project:
• Stacey Bonello• Kim Gawley• Lori Kappmeyer• Kathy Kent• Lenard Kluck• Karen Lawson• Joan Leysen
• Ben Spick (student in DR)• Harrison