California Digital
Library
Issues
lThought we could push all normalization/ enhancement activities up to point of ingest – NOT!
lOut-of-scope materials have dramatic impact on surfacing topics through clustering
—“Curators” of
digital content need a mechanism for subsetting
out unwanted materials from OAI sets prior
to any topic-surfacing activities
—The better one is
able to articulate the scope of a “collection,”
and the more focused that “collection” is on the needs of a tangible audience, the more successful clustering will likely be