Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?

Herold, Irene M. H.

doi:10.1080/01639269.2010.521024

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“…For example, Herold uses Google Analytics to demonstrate usage of a digital archival collection by users at institutional, national, and international levels. 10 Herold looks at server transaction logs maintained in Google Analytics, on-and off-campus searching counts, user locations, and repeat visitors to the archival images representing cultural heritage materials related to Orang Asli peoples and cultures of Malaysia. She uses these data to ascertain the number of users by geographic region and determine that, while most visitors came from the United States, Malaysia ranked second.…”

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Analyzing Digital Collections Entrances: What Gets Used and Why It Matters

Biswas

Marchesoni

2016

ITAL

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This paper analyzes usage data from Hunter Library's digital collections using Google Analytics for a period of twenty-seven months from October 2013 through December 2015. The authors consider this data analysis to be important for identifying collections that receive the largest number of visits. We argue this data evaluation is important in terms of better informing decisions for building digital collections that will serve user needs. The authors also study the benefits of harvesting to sites such as the DPLA and consider this paper will contribute to the overall literature on Google Analytics and its use by libraries.

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Analyzing Digital Collections Entrances: What Gets Used and Why It Matters

Biswas

Marchesoni

2016

ITAL

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“…This is characterized by user-driven digitization projects. Google Analytics is one common tool for extracting usage data and multiple authors have shown how to track and analyze past usage of digital collections (Herold, 2010; Ladd, 2015; Biswas and Marchesoni, 2016). With data analysis, information professionals use trends from past usage of digital collections to justify current digitization decisions and advocate for future projects (Bantin and Agne, 2010; Mills, 2015).…”

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Digital decisions: user-driven digitization

Sussmeier

Perez

2021

LHTN

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine digitization selection strategies to optimize usage by examining digital collections at Stockton University, comparing the library-driven projects to the community-driven ones. Design/methodology/approach Case study of digitization selection strategy for Special Collections and University Archives, comparing library-driven to community-driven approaches. Findings Based on webpage analytics of the digital collections, community-driven digitization projects are more successful than library-driven ones. Research limitations/implications As a case study, this paper only analyzes a select number of digital collections from one institution. Practical implications Those responsible for digitization selection may wish to allow community members to propose collections for digitization. Originality/value To the authors’ best knowledge, no other known studies have used user analytics to compare community-driven digitization projects to library-driven ones.

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“…User community on the Web is global and multilingual and, as recent research indicates, users expect multilingual access in digital libraries (Clough & Eleta, 2010;Wu et al, 2012). Herold (2010) in analyzing the patterns of user access in digital collections with content of international origin finds a significantly higher number of searchers from non-United States locations. Not surprisingly, a digital collection documenting the cultures of Malaysia, for example, has a high number of users coming from that region (Herold, 2010).…”

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“…Herold (2010) in analyzing the patterns of user access in digital collections with content of international origin finds a significantly higher number of searchers from non-United States locations. Not surprisingly, a digital collection documenting the cultures of Malaysia, for example, has a high number of users coming from that region (Herold, 2010). The developers of digital collections with source materials of international origin or with non-English content have begun to consider the needs of global users and to address the complexity of multilingual access in DLs (Gauthereau-Bryson et al, 2011;Herold, 2010;Kupietzky, 2007).…”

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Multilingual metadata for cultural heritage materials

Matusiak

Ling

Barczyk

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The Electronic Library

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2015). Multilingual metadata for cultural heritage materials: The case of the Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese scrolls and fan paintings. The Electronic Library, 33(1), 136 -151. Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore multilingual access in digital libraries and to present a case study of creating bilingual metadata records for the Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings. The project, undertaken at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, provides access to digital copies of calligraphic and painted Chinese scrolls and fans from the collection donated by Prof Tse-Tsung Chow (Cezong Zhou). Design/methodology/approach -This paper examines the current approaches to multilingual indexing and retrieval in digital collections and presents a model of creating bilingual parallel records that combines translation with controlled vocabulary mapping. Findings -Creating multilingual metadata records for cultural heritage materials is in an early phase of development. Bilingual metadata created through human translation and controlled vocabulary mapping represents one of the approaches to multilingual access in digital libraries. Multilingual indexing of collections of international origin addresses the linguistic needs of the target audience, connects the digitized objects to their respective cultures and contributes to richer descriptive records. The approach that relies on human translation and research can be undertaken in small-scale digitization projects of rare cultural heritage materials. Language and subject expertise are required to create bilingual metadata records. Research limitations/implications -This paper presents the results of a case study. The approach to multilingual access that involves research, and it relies on human translation that can only be undertaken in small-scale projects. Practical implications -This case study of creating parallel records with a combination of translation and vocabulary mapping can be useful for designing similar bilingual digital collections. Social implications -This paper also discusses the obligations of holding institutions in undertaking digital conversion of the cultural heritage materials that originated in other countries, especially in regard to providing metadata records that reflect the language of the originating community.

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Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Analyzing Digital Collections Entrances: What Gets Used and Why It Matters

Analyzing Digital Collections Entrances: What Gets Used and Why It Matters

Digital decisions: user-driven digitization

Multilingual metadata for cultural heritage materials

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