1. WGBH Open Vault Working with MERLOT to Build a Multi-Discipline Browsing Hierarchy - Karen Colbron and Helen Brady -

2. 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

11. Issues with the 3 previous sites No cross reference No cross searching Each site evolved with more sophistication

12. Overall goal Bring 3 sites together with cross searchable metadata and general subject heading browsing Add approximately 50 new assets from the WGBH archive

13. 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

14. Open Vault http://openvault.wgbh.org

15. Project Goals Catalogue Items Create a browsing hierarchy Provide subject-based access to resources

16. Collections New Television Workshop Say Brother Ten O’Clock News War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

17. Choosing MERLOT Strengths: Higher Ed. Focus Science Pedagogy Business History Less Developed Areas History of Education Educational Structure/ Institutions Social Science Arts

18. 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

19. Supplementary Vocabularies used Library of Congress UNESCO INTUTE

20. Tools Used MERLOT Subject Categories http://www.merlot.org/merlot/categories.htm http://www.merlot.org/merlot/categories.htm Classification Web http://classificationweb.net/http://classificationweb.net/ UNESCO Thesaurus http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/thesaurus.htmhttp://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/thesaurus.htm INTUTE Social Science Thesaurus http://www.intute.ac.uk/http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Library of Congress Authority Headings http://authorities.loc.gov/http://authorities.loc.gov/ Filemaker Pro Database

21. Browsing Hierarchy versus Searching Ability to find items using complex, compound categories (e.g. African Americans - Relations with law enforcement) Precision

22. Outcomes 1366 of items catalogued Browsing hierarchy created Precision finding tool Collocation of resources