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WGBH Open Vault
Working with MERLOT to Build a Multi-Discipline Browsing Hierarchy
- Karen Colbron and Helen Brady -
Project overview
3 different sites developed from 3 different grants: New Television Workshop
Experimental video art Say Brother
Local series on African American Community in Boston Ten O’clock News
Nightly local news series - select stories on African American community in Boston and busing
Issues with the 3 previous sites
No cross reference
No cross searching
Each site evolved with more sophistication
Overall goal
Bring 3 sites together with cross searchable metadata and general subject heading browsing
Add approximately 50 new assets from the WGBH archive
What are the new assets?
44 interviews from War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
1 interview from Vietnam: A Television History
1 interview from Press and the People
5 public domain assets to contextualize the interview material
Choosing MERLOT
Strengths: Higher Ed. Focus Science Pedagogy Business History
Less Developed Areas History of Education Educational Structure/
Institutions Social Science Arts
Hierarchy Parameters
At Least 3 levels of detail for each item
The top 2 levels from MERLOT
The final level would be a Library of Congress term
Tools Used
MERLOT Subject Categories http://www.merlot.org/merlot/categories.htm
Classification Web http://classificationweb.net/
UNESCO Thesaurus http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/thesaurus.htm
INTUTE Social Science Thesaurus http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Library of Congress Authority Headings http://authorities.loc.gov/
Filemaker Pro Database
Browsing Hierarchyversus Searching
Ability to find items using complex, compound categories (e.g. African Americans - Relations with law enforcement)
Precision