1. 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 Austin http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/

2. 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/

3. 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/

4. 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 record http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/

5. 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/

6. 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/

7. 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

8. 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/

9. 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/

10. The University of Texas at Austin

18. Contact Comments? Questions? http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/ kentn@mail.utexas.edu http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/