Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups

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Main Author: Gueguen, Gretchen
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2010
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contents Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups Gueguen, Gretchen Folk Culture Electronic Libraries Exhibits Internet Usability Computer System Design Gateway Systems Online Searching Navigation (Information Systems) Archives Information Seeking Humanities Program Effectiveness Performance Technology Many organizations have evolved since their early attempts to mount digital exhibits on the Web and are experimenting with ways to increase the scale of their digitized collections by utilizing archival finding aid description rather than resource-intensive collections and exhibits. This article examines usability research to predict how such systems might effectively be used and highlights a digital library and finding aid system that utilizes a single repository of digitized objects to fuel two types of user-discovery systems: a typical digital collections interface with item-level access and a finding aid that incorporates digitized items at the aggregate level. (Contains 4 figures and 20 notes.)
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spellingShingle Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups
Gueguen, Gretchen
Folk Culture
Electronic Libraries
Exhibits
Internet
Usability
Computer System Design
Gateway Systems
Online Searching
Navigation (Information Systems)
Archives
Information Seeking
Humanities
Program Effectiveness
Performance Technology
Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups Gueguen, Gretchen Folk Culture Electronic Libraries Exhibits Internet Usability Computer System Design Gateway Systems Online Searching Navigation (Information Systems) Archives Information Seeking Humanities Program Effectiveness Performance Technology Many organizations have evolved since their early attempts to mount digital exhibits on the Web and are experimenting with ways to increase the scale of their digitized collections by utilizing archival finding aid description rather than resource-intensive collections and exhibits. This article examines usability research to predict how such systems might effectively be used and highlights a digital library and finding aid system that utilizes a single repository of digitized objects to fuel two types of user-discovery systems: a typical digital collections interface with item-level access and a finding aid that incorporates digitized items at the aggregate level. (Contains 4 figures and 20 notes.)
title Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups
topic Folk Culture
Electronic Libraries
Exhibits
Internet
Usability
Computer System Design
Gateway Systems
Online Searching
Navigation (Information Systems)
Archives
Information Seeking
Humanities
Program Effectiveness
Performance Technology
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ910832