Use the Union List Profile feature to establish a session, profiling for a group of depositories by state, region or distance from any depository.

In addition, DOCUMENTS DATA MINER 2^© provides the latest version of the Federal Bulletin Board edition of the List of Classes and the Item Lister’s Current Item Number Selection Profiles for Depository Libraries from the FDLP Administration site in scrubbed form for easy integration into local application programs.  See the Support function for additional information.

This site is regularly refreshed with updated data from the Government Printing Office’s Federal Bulletin Board Online via GPO Access and the FDLP Administration site.   Date of modification is noted on the site’s footer.

DOCUMENTS DATA MINER 2^© has been developed through a partnership between University Libraries at Wichita State University and the University Computing and Telecommunications Services .  Overall project conception and management was supplied by Nan Myers, Government Documents Librarian and John Williams, Manager of Acquisitions.

DOCUMENTS DATA MINER 2 database schemas, query algorithms, and Web applications were developed by John Ellis of the University Computing and Telecommunications Services. Graduate projects that contributed to this effort were conducted by Baban, Kumar and Madan.

The original DOCUMENTS DATA MINER^© was developed with cooperation and funding by the National Institute for Aviation Research and was in turn an outgrowth of a project undertaken to develop an in-house relational database for government documents at Ablah Library.  The prototype was called GPRD, Government documents Processing Relational Database (pronounced "jeopardy"). The preliminary design of the GPRD database was accomplished through a partnership between Library faculty and staff and the faculty and graduate students of the University's Departments of Electrical Engineering, Decision Sciences and Computer Science.  Development occurred between Fall 1995 and Spring 1997. The initial prototype for the data mining function was written by Dr. Xumin Nie, Oracle Corporation.

Combining the original prototype and the model for data mining, the DOCUMENTS DATA MINER^© provides an Internet-accessible relational database for the use of the documents community.  An overview of the GPRD database development was presented at the 6th Annual Federal Depository Library Conference (April 14-17, 1997) in the paper titled Managing the Depository Database.

Additional credits: The Sudoc parsing program was supplied by Margaret Mooney, University of California at Riverside.   Additionally, certain title information was initially supplied by Mooney and by Paul Arrigo, Washburn University. 

Design and development of DOCUMENTS DATA MINER 2^© occurred from the Fall of 2000 through the Spring of 2001.

Inactive/Discontinued Information

The publication Inactive or Discontinued Items from the 1950 Revision of the Classified List (rev.1996) is not yet available for downloading from the FDLP Administration page. Data available in this section was originally mined from the BDLD site maintained by Thomas G. Tyler in March 1997. Data captured from the BDLD's section on "Inactive or Discontinued Items" is based on a 9-track tape of the 1989 edition and manually revised through the 1996 edition. The annotations originated from Shipping Lists, the List of Classes, Surveys, the BDLD title List of Classes - Additions & Changes, and other Depository Library Program sources.

The DOCUMENTS DATA MINER^©project began loading the List of Classes from the FDLP site in October 1997. Any item which no longer appears on the List of Classes automatically is considered non-active by the DATA MINER and information related to that item number moves to the non-active category.

Architecture

The Web site is hosted on a Microsoft 2000 Server (IIS 5.0). All servers are located in WSU Computing Center. All Relational Databases are Microsoft Sql Server 2000. All web publications use Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. The Data Miner utilities are written in Microsoft Visual Basic ver. 6.0., Javascript, VBscript, and Transaction SQL