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Title: Creating electronic resources for the study of forced migration: a researcher's perspective Marilyn Deegan Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford


1
Creating electronic resources for the study of
forced migration a researcher's
perspectiveMarilyn DeeganRefugee Studies
CentreUniversity of Oxford
2
What is forced migration?
  • Unintended population movement through conflict,
    persecution, or developmental factors
  • Refugees, internal displacement,
    development-induced displacement
  • One of the worlds biggest human problems there
    are around 25 million refugees and forced migrants

3
Forced Migration Online (FMO)
  • A project to create a portal on forced migration
  • Based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University
    of Oxford
  • Funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
    EU
  • International partners

4
FMO Partners
  • Refugee Studies Centre
  • Czech Helsinki Committee, Prague
  • Tufts University, USA
  • Columbia University, USA
  • Higher Education Digitisation Service

5
FMO Partners
  • Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings
    College London
  • Information Centre on Asylum Seekers and
    Refugees, Kings College, London
  • International network of editors and other
    contributors

6
FMO Audience
  • Anyone who undertakes research or seeks
    information in this field
  • practitioners
  • students
  • information providers
  • policy makers
  • media
  • forced migrants
  • etc

7
The importance of information services
  • Use of up-to-date, relevant, reliable information
    is of the greatest importance
  • As is historical information
  • At the Refugee Studies Centre, we are in direct
    contact with around 10,000 individuals and
    institutions at the moment
  • We seek to increase this all the time

8
FMO Components
  • A searchable catalogue with descriptions of
    relevant resources elsewhere on the web, cf. the
    RDN
  • A digital library of full-text documents and
    journal articles
  • Cross-searching agents
  • Thematic and country-related research guides
  • News sources

9
Digital Library
  • c. 3000 items of grey literature available end
    November 2001 (images and searchable full text)
  • Some key journals in the field to be added at a
    later date
  • New bids for further digital collections
    currently with the Mellon Foundation

10
Searchable Catalogue
  • Will house bibliographic records that describe
    web-based and other resources
  • Record fields include author, title, subject,
    date, description, URL, format, type, etc.
  • DC specification now available
  • also to be mapped to MARC

11
Types of resources
  • Full-text documents
  • Journals
  • Library catalogues
  • Discussion lists
  • Bibliographies
  • Statistical data
  • Databases
  • Teaching resources
  • etc, etc

12
Location of the resources
  • Libraries
  • Educational institutions
  • Governmental, inter-governmental and
    non-governmental organizations
  • Various news sources
  • A whole range of other worldwide sources

13
How do we find the resources?
  • Various web and bibliographic searching
    techniques
  • visit trusted sources, eg. UNHCR
  • follow links
  • key word searching
  • recommendations
  • email lists

14
Problems
  • Research is time-consuming
  • Validity of resources
  • Granularity
  • sometimes we find whole sets of resources or
    catalogues and sometimes individual items
  • dont always know what is in a resource until we
    dig around
  • Currency of information

15
How would collection level description help us?
  • Save time in giving us a description of a
    resource and its granularity
  • Could help us to evaluate the validity of the
    resource
  • A standard, well-constructed point of reference
    would allow us to compare different resources
    better

16
How would collection level description help us?
  • Linguistic issues
  • descriptions could be provided in a number of
    languages

17
Potential problems
  • Our diverse community
  • Persuading organizations outside HE and the
    libraries community to adopt collection level
    descriptions
  • Issues outside the developed world
  • Language problems
  • Quality control
  • especially given the geographic and linguistic
    spread of our community

18
What we need
  • Help in defining a range of catalogue description
    models that we could apply to our diverse subject
    area
  • Help in training our international partners in
    applying collection level descriptions
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