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

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

Vivien Petras, Juliane Stiller, Maria Gäde
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781466629912|ISBN10: 1466629916|EISBN13: 9781466629929
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch009
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Petras, Vivien, et al. "Building for Success?: Evaluating Digital Libraries in the Cultural Heritage Domain." Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies, edited by Colleen Cool and Kwong Bor Ng, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 141-163. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch009

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Petras, V., Stiller, J., & Gäde, M. (2013). Building for Success?: Evaluating Digital Libraries in the Cultural Heritage Domain. In C. Cool & K. Ng (Eds.), Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies (pp. 141-163). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch009

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Petras, Vivien, Juliane Stiller, and Maria Gäde. "Building for Success?: Evaluating Digital Libraries in the Cultural Heritage Domain." In Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies, edited by Colleen Cool and Kwong Bor Ng, 141-163. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch009

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Abstract

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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