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<a href="http://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2017.47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2017.47</a>
Pages
249–253
Issue
3
Volume
105
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Our journey to digital curation of the Jeghers Medical Index.
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Journal of the Medical Library Association
Date
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2017
2017-07
Subject
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Ohio; Access to Information; PubMed; Abstracting and Indexing; Digitizers; Information Retrieval; Medical Literature; Metadata; Libraries; Hospital – Ohio
Creator
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Gawdyda Lori; Carter Kimbroe; Willson Mark; Bedford Denise
Description
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Background: Harold Jeghers, a well-known medical educator of the twentieth century, maintained a print collection of about one million medical articles from the late 1800s to the 1990s. This case study discusses how a print collection of these articles was transformed to a digital database. Case Presentation: Staff in the Jeghers Medical Index, St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, converted paper articles to Adobe portable document format (PDF)/A-1a files. Optical character recognition was used to obtain searchable text. The data were then incorporated into a specialized database. Lastly, articles were matched to PubMed bibliographic metadata through automation and human review. An online database of the collection was ultimately created. The collection was made part of a discovery search service, and semantic technologies have been explored as a method of creating access points. Conclusions: This case study shows how a small medical library made medical writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries available in electronic format for historic or semantic research, highlighting the efficiencies of contemporary information technology.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2017.47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.5195/jmla.2017.47</a>
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2017
Abstracting and Indexing
Access to Information
Bedford Denise
Carter Kimbroe
Digitizers
Gawdyda Lori
Hospital – Ohio
Information Retrieval
Journal of the Medical Library Association
Libraries
Medical Literature
Metadata
Ohio
PubMed
Willson Mark