Hodgepodge or Showcase? An IR Assessment Strategy

McMillan, Gail

Hodgepodge or Showcase? An IR Assessment Strategy

dc.contributor.author	McMillan, Gail	en
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-01T11:59:50Z	en
dc.date.available	2022-04-01T11:59:50Z	en
dc.date.issued	2021-06-09	en
dc.description.abstract	Since the IR may serve the institution as a digital library, it should accurately reflect the institution’s scholarship and activities. But how can we determine whether this is the case? This study proposes selecting several microcosms, creating a controlled vocabulary of terms and phrases, searching the vocabulary at the institution-level and in the IR, and comparing the percentage of hits in each. Assessing IRs from the perspective of its content is not a frame of reference generally used. This study compared three microcosms in the IR with the same microcosms in the institution at large--LGBTQ, Indigenous People, and Latinx. What percentage of similarity be considered a close enough correlation? While this is a review of one IR at a doctoral-granting land grant institution, a discussion of the methodology and results could lead to cross-IR analyses. This presentation describes developing the vocabularies, search strategies using the advantages and short-comings of Google and Solr, and what the data revealed about VTechWorks, the IR at Virginia Tech. Studying these microcosms within the IR also revealed the use or non-use of terms and phrases by certain author communities, e.g., graduate students through their ETDs and faculty through their published articles.	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/109520	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.ispartof	16th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR 2021)	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Indigenous People	en
dc.subject	Latinx	en
dc.subject	LGBTQ	en
dc.subject	VTechWorks	en
dc.title	Hodgepodge or Showcase? An IR Assessment Strategy	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en