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Exploring the Benefits for Users of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections: Benchmark case studies of two digital library websites

Zavala, Melina; Kinnaman, Alex; Jett, Jacob; Cole, Timothy W.

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User-Case-Studies-Report_Clean.pdf

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Title
Exploring the Benefits for Users of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections: Benchmark case studies of two digital library websites
Author(s)
  • Zavala, Melina
  • Kinnaman, Alex
  • Jett, Jacob
  • Cole, Timothy W.
Issue Date
2017-03
Keyword(s)
  • linked open data
  • digitized special collections
  • user testing
  • Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
  • Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
  • user interfaces
Date of Ingest
2018-04-06T15:22:01Z
Abstract
This report presents the results from a pair of case studies conducted as part of the Exploring the benefits for users of Linked Open Data for digitized special collections project. Each case study was produced from a series of interviews with users of digital special collections. The case studies compare the Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design1 (Motley) to the Harvard Theatre Collection2 and the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research3 (KPA) to the Bovary Manuscript Archive4 respectively. Each of the users was a volunteer and was asked to compare to digital collection websites to one another during the course of completing a series of user tasks which included assessing the overall layout and utility of each digital collection’s interface, searching for a specific resource, and characterizing how they might employ the collections in their research.
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Genre of Resource
  • Technical Report
  • Working / Discussion Paper
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99614
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Award No. 31500650

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