Digitizing Patient Information and Laboratory Research Data for
Archival Reference and Research
Nancy McCall, Lisa A. Mix, and Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Investigators.
Content Selection Criteria for Digitization
(Look at Frank Boles; Clark Elliott; Joan Krizack; Harriet Zuckerman, Eugene
Garfield,
and Robert Merton; and Cordray, Pion, and Boruch for potential models).
Considerations:
- Existence of primary published research using original records/data.
- Existence of subsequent published research using original records/data.
- Influence of research or researcher as demonstrated in number of
citations, length of citation period, and number of sub-specialties
represented by citing journals; or as a major prize recipient.
- Prospective audiences/level of use as determined by archival use
analysis, declared interest, research trend analysis, and online surveys.
- Accessibility issues with existing record formats.
- Preservation issues with existing record formats.
- Costs.
- Volume and value of unpublished data contained in the materials.
- Existence of related collections or media within the institution or
elsewhere.
- Usability in digital format.
- Volume and type of confidential data.
- Existence of materials that are controversial or potentially
upsetting to users, e.g., documentation of historical experiments that are
not longer permitted by
scientific research regulation; animal and human subject use in
scientific research.
- Existence of extractable data.
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- Matches with funding priorities for clinical and scientific research.