Building for Success?: Evaluating Digital Libraries in the Cultural Heritage Domain

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Author(s): Vivien Petras (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Juliane Stiller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)and Maria Gäde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 23
Source title: Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Colleen Cool (Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, USA)and Kwong Bor Ng (Queens College, CUNY, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch009

Keywords: Digital Libraries / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Science

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In the cultural heritage field, heterogeneous materials and multicultural, multilingual user groups and their varying needs pose a challenge for information system design and its evaluation alike. Cultural heritage information systems can be evaluated from a system-centric or a user-centric perspective. This chapter discusses evaluation methods in digital libraries with a particular focus on cultural heritage collections and their distinctive features, interaction patterns, and challenges. It describes state-of-the-art evaluation methods illustrating them with examples from Europeana, the European portal for access to digital library, museum, and archive collections, and other projects from within the cultural heritage domain.

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