@article {palmer_beyond_2010,
	title = {Beyond size and search: Building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use},
	journal = {Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology},
	volume = {47},
	number = {1},
	year = {2010},
	note = {00018},
	pages = {1{\textendash}10},
	abstract = {This article examines the importance of federated collections as anchors in humanities research of the "Google age." The authors begin by identifying some of the potential problems of developing federated collections: retaining identity{\textquoteright}s of individual collections, uncovering connections within collections, and aggregating resources in a way that is useful to the user. The article examines the IMLS Digital Collections and Content initiative, which has developed an aggregation strategy and is now the largest digital cultural heritage federation in the USA. The strategy is guided by the "principle of contextual mass{\textquotedblright}: {\textquotedblleft}collecting materials that work together as a system of sources, with meaningful interrelationships between different types of materials and subjects, to support research inquiry." Alongside developing a system for processing and identifying subject concentrations, the initiative wants to develop a method for making these concentrations explicit to the users. The authors argue that, unlike other federated systems, "OH strategy uses collection description information to disclose content in a way that supports the scholarly practices of exploring and engaging with specialized materials within and across collections."},
	issn = {1550-8390},
	doi = {10.1002/meet.14504701213},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/meet.14504701213/abstract},
	author = {Palmer, Carole L. and Zavalina, Oksana L. and Fenlon, Katrina}
}