Understanding Ultimate Use Data and Its Implication for Digital Library Management: A Case Study

Reilly, Michele; Thompson, Santi

doi:10.1080/19322909.2014.901211

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“…Assessing the impact of digital libraries and evaluating the use and reuse of digital objects for educational and personal use are growing areas of research interest. The case studies evaluating the reuse of digital objects involve analysis of user requests, tracking the use of images on the Web using reverse image lookup (Reilly and Thompson, 2014, 2017), or examining the reuse of digital library objects in Wikipedia (Kelly, 2018). The “Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects” project, undertaken by members of the Digital Library Federation’s Assessment Interest Group, focused on exploring the ways digital library materials are employed and reused (Kelly et al, 2018; O’Gara et al, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Digital library evaluation measures in academic settings: Perspectives from scholars and practitioners

Xie

Joo

Matusiak

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Evaluation criteria and appropriate measures are critical to the success of digital library evaluation. The key problem is a lack of specific measures, especially from a heuristic perspective, corresponding to diverse dimensions and criteria. This study explored a variety of measures for digital library evaluation focusing on their appropriateness. It also compared the similarities and differences in perceptions of the appropriateness of digital library evaluation measures of two groups. Sixty-one participants were recruited representing scholars and academic digital librarians. The participants were instructed to fill in an in-depth survey consisting of 174 measures associated with 10 evaluation dimensions and 82 criteria. The findings of this study highlight the most appropriate measures in each dimension and show significant agreement in identifying appropriate measures by digital library scholars and librarians. Differences in the rating of the measures were found between the two groups in the dimensions of “interface design,” “system and technology,” “effects on users,” “administration,” “user engagement,” and “context.” The significance of this study lies not only in the integration of the perspectives on measures from both researchers and practitioners, but also in providing an inclusive list of measures to guide practitioners to effectively evaluate digital libraries in academic settings.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Digital library evaluation measures in academic settings: Perspectives from scholars and practitioners

Xie

Joo

Matusiak

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…This may be tangible (incorporated into lectures, presentations, articles and artwork) or intangible (utilized for thematic illustration, intellectual reflection or inspiration” (p. 9). Her definition of ultimate use was adopted by Reilly and Thompson (2014), who examined intended image use by analyzing user requests received by the University of Houston Digital Library. Findings of this study indicate that images are primarily requested for personal use (35.6 per cent).…”

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Use and reuse of visual resources in student papers and presentations

Matusiak

Harper

Heinbach

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how undergraduate and graduate students use visual resources in their papers and presentations and what role images play in their academic work. It also focused on analyzing the types of image use/reuse in academic work. Design/methodology/approach This study was designed using an exploratory, qualitative approach. In all, 15 participants were recruited. Multiple sources of data were collected, including visual evidence, questionnaires and interviews. It adopted consensual qualitative research for data analysis. Findings This study finds a prevalent reuse of images in student presentations but limited use and reuse in papers. Images in presentations were primarily reused as objects for engaging and esthetic purposes. Reuse of images as a source of information was not common and in some cases problematic when students were missing context. The type of use/reuse of images in the papers was more varied with examples of creative use and transformative reuse. Practical implications This paper contributes to a better understanding of how students use and reuse images for academic papers and presentations. Results have important implications for teaching visual literacy and re-purposing images in higher education. Originality/value This paper analyses educational use/reuse of images along the data/object spectrum and distinguishes between different types of image use and reuse.

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“…One of the most widely documented methods for evaluating digital image reuse involves RIL services such as Google images or TinEye, in which an image is either uploaded or an originating URL is input to the search platform and then duplicates and similar images are found online. RIL studies have been performed on images from NASA, academic digital libraries, the Library of Congress, and the British National Gallery (Kelly, 2015;Kirton & Terras, 2013;Kousha et al, 2010;Reilly & Thompson, 2014;. In all of these studies, after duplicate images were found online, the context and purpose in which the images were reused was analyzed in order to determine who uses digital cultural heritage images and for what objective.…”

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Reuse of Wikimedia Commons Cultural Heritage Images on the Wider Web

Kelly¹

2019

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Objective -Cultural heritage institutions with digital images on Wikimedia Commons want to know if and how those images are being reused. This study attempts to gauge the impact of digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons by using Reverse Image Lookup (RIL) to determine the quantity and content of different types of reuse, barriers to using RIL to assess reuse, and whether reused digital cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons include licensing information.Methods -171 digital cultural heritage Wikimedia Commons images from 51 cultural heritage institutions were searched using the Google images "Search by image" tool to find instances of reuse. Content analysis of the digital cultural heritage images and the context in which they were reused was conducted to apply broad content categories. Reuse within Wikimedia Foundation projects was also recorded.Results -A total of 1,533 reuse instances found via Google images and Wikimedia Commons' file usage reports were analyzed. Over half of reuse occurred within Wikimedia projects or wiki aggregator and mirror sites. Notable People, people, historic events, and buildings and locations were the most widely reused topics of digital cultural heritage both within Wikimedia projects Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2019, 14.3 29 and beyond, while social, media gallery, news, and education websites were the most likely places to find reuse outside of wiki projects. However, the content of reused images varied slightly depending on the website type on which they were found. Very few instances of reuse included licensing information, and those that did often were incorrect. Reuse of cultural heritage images from Wikimedia Commons was either done without added context or content, as in the case of media galleries, or was done in ways that did not distort or mischaracterize the images being reused.Conclusion -Cultural heritage institutions can use this research to focus digitization and digital content marketing efforts in order to optimize reuse by the types of websites and users that best meet their institution's mission. Institutions that fear reuse without attribution have reason for concern as the practice of reusing both Creative Commons and public domain media without rights statements is widespread. More research needs to be conducted to determine if notability of institution or collection affects likelihood of reuse, as preliminary results show a weak correlation between number of images searched and number of images reused per institution. RIL technology is a reliable method of finding image reuse but is a labour-intensive process that may best be conducted for selected images and specific assessment campaigns. Finally, the reused content and context categories developed here may contribute to a standardized set of codes for assessing digital cultural heritage reuse.

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Understanding Ultimate Use Data and Its Implication for Digital Library Management: A Case Study

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Digital library evaluation measures in academic settings: Perspectives from scholars and practitioners

Digital library evaluation measures in academic settings: Perspectives from scholars and practitioners

Use and reuse of visual resources in student papers and presentations

Reuse of Wikimedia Commons Cultural Heritage Images on the Wider Web

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