In Search for Patterns of User Interaction for Digital Libraries

Steinerová, Jela

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_2

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“…Ethnographic studies of academic and research library users in Slovakia (Steinerová, 2003), mixed method research on higher education digital services provision in the U.K. (Banwell & Coulson, 2004; Banwell, Ray, Coulson, Urquhart, Lonsdale, Armstrong, et al, 2004), comparative content analysis of written evaluation of physical reference service and virtual reference services in Canada (Nilson, 2004), and qualitative methods applied to situated use assessments in Illinois (Bishop, Neumann, Star, Merkel, Ignacio, & Sandusky, 2000) are among the approaches reported by researchers seeking to understand why users did, or did not, use digital libraries and what they felt about their experiences. Additionally, a range of in‐depth usability studies have been conducted in non‐laboratory but quasi‐experimental use contexts focusing on specific features of digital libraries, such as a “my e‐journal” personalizer and aggregator in Denmark (Hyldegaard & Seiden, 2004), the use of music library tools (Notess, 2004), and broad studies of technical strategies such as whether integrated interaction is actually preferable to common interaction (Park, 2000).…”

Section: Social Impactsmentioning

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Digital libraries

Bearman¹

2007

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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Section: Social Impactsmentioning

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Digital libraries

Bearman¹

2007

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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“…Sfakakis and Kapidakis [15] studied the log files of the Hellenic Documentation Centre Digital Library and found users favor simple queries. Steinerova [16] describes DL usage patterns of Slovakian DL users as reported through questionnaires. Assadi et al [17] describe DL usage patterns in France through surveys, interviews and instrumented DLs.…”

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User evaluation of the NASA technical report server recommendation service

Nelson

Bollen

Calhoun

et al. 2004

Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management

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We present the user evaluation of two recommendation server methodologies implemented for the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS).One methodology for generating recommendations uses log analysis to identify co-retrieval events on full-text documents. For comparison, we used the Vector Space Model (VSM) as the second methodology. We calculated cosine similarities and used the top 10 most similar documents (based on metadata) as "recommendations". We then ran an experiment with NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) staff members to gather their feedback on which method produced the most "quality" recommendations. We found that in most cases VSM outperformed log analysis of co-retrievals. However, analyzing the data revealed the evaluations may have been structurally biased in favor of the VSM generated recommendations. We explore some possible methods for combining log analysis and VSM generated recommendations and suggest areas of future work.

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“…Given and Olson [10] use data on information behaviour as a basis for constructing KO. The practical aspects of the gap have received attention in digital library research [11]. Sonnenwald and Iivonen [12] used Ranganathan's framework for KO in their integrated human information behaviour research framework.…”

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Ecological framework of information interactions and information infrastructures

Huvila

2009

Journal of Information Science

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There has been notably little convergence between information organisation and information use studies. A framework for explicating the contextual interplay of information interactions and infrastructures of information, and more specifically the interface of information work and knowledge organisation systems is proposed. The theoretical foundations of the framework are based on systems theory and ecological approach. It is suggested that the interplay of information use and information infrastructures may be conceptualised as a systemic interaction, which is driven by the simultaneous influence of human activity related warrants and infrastructural affordances and constraints. The model provides an instrument that explicates the interplay of human information use and information infrastructures.Keywords: Information interactions, information work, knowledge organisation, knowledge organisation systems, information infrastructures, ecological approach IntroductionThe polarities of information science research are a widely discussed issue [6]. One reason for this still prevailing state of affairs can be argued to be the lack of common frame of reference in terms of theories and scholarly orientation towards institutions, documentation and information [7]. Information systems have been able to meet only some information work and use related problems and the results of information use studies have proven difficult to operationalise in systems design.The latter gap has been discussed relatively seldom in explicit theoretical terms. Steinerová [8] maps the human issues of information seeking and knowledge organisation (KO) and Abbott [9] discusses the general issue of subjectivity. Given and Olson [10] use data on information behaviour as a basis for constructing KO. The

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In Search for Patterns of User Interaction for Digital Libraries

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