A Digital Library to Serve a Region: The Bioregion and First Nations Collections of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives
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Abstract
The Southern Oregon Digital Archives (http://soda. sou.edu) provides a wealth of research materials on the regional ecology and indigenous peoples of southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), this digital library contains more than fifteen hundred fully searchable documents, books, and articles, and forms two related collections: the Bioregion Collection and the First Nations Collection. The creation of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives at Harmon Library illustrates that smaller libraries can create astonishingly significant digital collections. A key component can be the careful establishment of collaboration and cooperative relationships, such as those developed by Hannon Library of Southern Oregon University (SOU) with local branches of federal and state agencies and with tribes. The associations created by patient communication played a vital role in the successful outcome of this project. Background The Siskiyou-Klamath-Cascade bioregion of southwestern Oregon and northwestern California is composed of old and geologically complex mountain systems. It bridges the Cascade-Sierra mountain ranges and the Pacific Ocean east to west, and the Oregon and California Coast ranges north to south. This magnificent region is recognized by scientists around the world as an area uniquely rich in plant and animal species, unmatched in biological diversity provided by the area's distinctive geology, climate, and topography. Southern Oregon University, located in Ashland, Oregon, twenty miles from the California border, is the only regional university between Eugene, Oregon, and Chico, California, and strives to meet the diverse needs of constituencies in this multicounty region. Hannon Library has, for more than forty years, placed a special emphasis on collecting and providing access to materials relating to the Siskiyou-Klamath-Cascade bioregion and its indigenous peoples. As a government depository for the 2nd Congressional District, Hannon Library has a strong collection of federal and state government publications on the biology, botany, animal life, watershed and riparian zones, forests, timber management, and geology of this region. Hannon Library also has extremely strong collections relating to American Indians that support the Native American minor and certificate program at the University. In late fall 2000, Hannon Library presented a preliminary proposal to the Oregon University System to develop a digital archive of documents on the peoples and ecology of the Siskiyou-Klamath-Cascade region that would serve the scientific, environmental, educational, tribal, and business communities regionally, nationally, and internationally. Through the efforts of Congressman Greg Walden (OR), Hannon Library received a congressionally directed National Leadership grant from IMLS to create the Southern Oregon Digital Archives. Our vision from the beginning was to create a digital collection with full-text searching capability across all documents so that users could search for a specific species name, native language word, or personal name in one step. Our vendor, PTFS Digital Archiving Solutions (www.ptfs.com), worked with us to create a user-friendly, but powerful and sophisticated query interface that allows users to search for terms within all documents in one search and to quickly load images of entire documents, which range from a few to several hundred pages, in PDF format. All documents have undergone the OCR (optical character recognition) process, which allows for full-text keyword searching. The search interface also offers author, title, and LCSH access as well as author and title browsing capability. The SODA site also includes links for help and information about the project and collections. The project developed over three and one half years with the cooperation of and in collaboration with government agencies, private researchers, and tribes. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.083 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".