New & Upcoming Initiatives

@UTLANIC

Kent Norsworthy
LANIC Content Director

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Social Media

• Why social media?

• Wordle

• AddThis

• Wikipedia

• Graduated to Twitter in Fall

2009

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@UTLANIC on Twitter

• News coverage previously

provided through LANIC
Newsroom

• New material added to

LANIC previously posted
on “What’s New” page

• News & analysis related to

LANIC subject coverage

• Promote activities and

accomplishments of
LLILAS, Benson, & UT

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@UTLANIC by the Numbers

• 424 Followers

• 1,835 Tweets

• Archived at Twapper Keeper

• TweetLevel analytics

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Web archiving: Why

• New collecting challenges: born digital

• Ephemeral content

• Archive-It: Turnkey Web-archiving solution

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Web archiving: What

• LAGDA: Government Documents

• LAGDA = 275 seeds; 60 million URLs & 5TB data

archived since 2005

• Full text search or browse by ministry

• Data mining & visualization w/TACC

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LANIC Digital Curators

• Subject or country experts volunteer to maintain one

LANIC directory
• Professional development credit

• We provide manual and access to Wiki-based

workspace

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Digital curators

• Majority of 84
subjects in first 10
Google results

• 113K inbound links

to LANIC

• 10K unique URLs

in the LANIC
directories

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Digital Curators

• 42 LAC countries/territories

• 84 Subjects

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Latin American Electronic Data Archive

• LARRP Surveys & Faculty

• Acquisition

• Preservation

• Distribution

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LAEDA Electoral Data

• Bolivia, Chile, Peru,

Ecuador, Venezuela,
Guatemala

• 97 electoral exercises

• 1958-2006

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LAEDA technical infrastructure

• All open source technologies

• Data archive + middleware apps + UI

• Dublin Core and DDI metadata

• Metadata exposed via OAI for harvesting and federated search

• Database and Internationalization APIs

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