The University of Alberta (UA) web archive collections are managed by a distributed group of subject and specialist librarians across the university. Librarians, faculty, and the public can propose collections; proposals are reviewed by the Collections Development Committee to fit with the overall collection policies of the library. Once approved, individual collections are managed by subject l...

this report summarizes the results of 64 percutaneous catheter drainage of abdominal abscesses and fluid collections in 56 patients. aspiration and drainage was guided with computed tomography in 34 patients and with ultrasound in 30 patients. success rate was 90%. infected collections were successfully drained in 94% and noninfected collections in 72% . partial success was achieved in two pati...

Some cultural heritage institutions have large and growing spoken word collections, the items of which often live in isolation from each other and from other parts of those collections. This paper describes the design process for construction and evaluation of a system to automatically construct links between spoken conversations that address different aspects of the same event. We see this as ...

The requirements to support large-scale and complex research collections are growing at an accelerated pace. Considering the continuous evolution of the collections, their increasing sizes, the technologies supporting them, and the importance of adequate data management to long-term preservation, a team at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) developed a cyberinfrastructure to aid researc...

As part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse user communities. This paper reports on recent results from that project on how digital resource developers conceive of and define their collections. Based on content analysis of collection registr...