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- Angelis, Stavros, et al.
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Research Community Evaluation Report : Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.7
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report deals with three Evaluation Workshops organized by ATHENA R.C that took place as part of research undertaken in Work Package 1 of the Europeana Cloud (eCloud) project (2013-16). The workshops were linked to WP3 iterative development cycle, and intended to provide feedback regarding the usefulness, as against usability, of tools and service prototypes within Europeana Cloud and their fitness-for-purpose with regard to the requirements analysis and user-centred design of Europeana Research.
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- Angelis, Stavros, et al.
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User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report. Content Strategy Report. : Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.3 and 1.6: User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report (1.3) and Content Strategy Report (1.6)
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present Deliverable (1.3) comprises of two joint reports: former Deliverable 1.3 (User Requirements and Case Studies report) and Deliverable 1.6 (Content Strategy Report). As a product of a multi-scale, interdisciplinary effort, Deliverable 1.3 (User Requirements and Case Studies report / Content Strategy Report) employs a multi-faceted approach to make sense of the information needs and behaviour of Humanities and Social Sciences researchers both within and outside the Europeana ecosystem, while achieving profound understanding of the ways these communities interact with existing Europeana content and metadata. Through extensive and widely-levelled empirical research (Case Studies, Web Survey, Interviews, Focus Groups) complimented by thorough desk research (Literature review, study of particular thematic areas), and building on work previously conducted in the context of other Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures (DARIAH, EHRI, ARIADNE, NeDiMAH) Work Package 1 managed to reach a long list of non-prioritized User Requirements as well as a set of flexible Content Recommendations for the upcoming development of Europeana Research.
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- Benardou, Agiatis, et al.
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Reflecting on and Refracting User Needs through Case Studies in the Light of Europeana Research
- 2016
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities 2016, 11-16 juli, 2016, Krakow, Polen.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This poster presents work on documenting user needs in the Humanities and Social Sciences as illustrated through Case Studies in the context of the Europeana Cloud “Unlocking Europe's Research via the Cloud” project. Conducted as part of a wider methodological effort including desk research, expert fora and a web survey, methodology and findings of actual use of innovative digital tools and services will be visually represented. This work will form the basis of the Europeana Research Case Studies which will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods in the respective communities. This poster reports on collaborative, cross-European work conducted during 2013-2015 in the context of the Europeana Cloud “Unlocking Europe's Research via the Cloud” project, and touches upon planned activities in the context of Europeana Research in 2016. Europeana Research is an initiative which aims to create stronger links between the cultural heritage sector and academia. More particularly, it aims to ensure that open, high-quality data from the cultural sector is available for reuse by the digital humanities community. One of the main objectives of Europeana Cloud was the enhancement of the understanding of digital tools, research processes and scholarly content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in Europeana for research purposes. To this end, and in order to contribute towards the development of the new platform of Europeana Research, Case Studies were developed as part of a wider methodological effort which included desk research, expert fora and web survey for reaching user requirements. The purpose of this poster is to visually represent the methodology followed and results reached in documenting actual use of innovative digital tools and services in the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities illustrated in three main Case Studies in the disciplines of Education, Art History and Sociology, and further complemented by satellite cases. The Case Studies were initially selected based on the disciplines and tools that might best make use of current Europeana content. By defining “innovative” as “either performing functions that were previously unavailable, or performing already available functions in a qualitatively different way”, three tools were identified as best fitting this criteria (Transana, HyperImage, NodeXL) enriched by two “satellite” tools more frequently used in the respective research disciplines (NVivo, Voyant). These were further approached following a threefold methodology of semi-structured interviews, empirical observation of the tools and background research. The results were then discussed both from the perspective of the discipline area, and through the lens of the scholarly primitives (Unsworth 2000, Palmer et al 2009), to determine their use with Europeana content. The poster will also highlight the importance of accessibility of data for research infrastructures and research groups and need to focus on high quality metadata and content both for Europeana Research and the wider GLAM sector, and will illustrate how digital tools are not themselves a guarantee of good research, as researchers do not necessarily use the same digital tool throughout the research process; rather they use one tool per step (one tool = one research primitive). This poster will also present future work planned to be undertaken in the context of Europeana Research in 2016. Based on Europeana Cloud, a series of new Case Studies will be developed and expanded towards different research communities. The Europeana Research Case Studies will be undertaken in collaboration with existing European research initiatives, and will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods of arts and humanities and social sciences researchers within the broad Europeana ecosystem and particularly in relation to Europeana content. Τhe Case Studies will employ a mixed methods approach combining various ways of gathering empirical evidence on the information needs and scholarly methods employed in digitally-enabled arts and humanities and social sciences research across Europe and beyond.
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- Benardou, Agiatis, et al.
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State of the art report on digital research practices, tools and scholarly content use : Deliverable D1.2
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This document constitutes desk research to analyse the current situation related to digital research practices, tools and content for the humanities and social sciences research communities and it comprises of three Milestones submitted separately in the course of the first nine months of the Project, each corresponding to digital research practices, tools and content respectively. Moreover, this report will serve as an exploratory stage which will provide the basis for the confirmation stage, that is the web survey undertaken within Task 1.3, relying heavily on work previously presented in Deliverable 1.1 (Research Communities Identification and Definition Report), in which the humanities and social sciences research communities were largely identified. The Research Communities Web Survey (T.1.3.4), which has been completed and is currently being processed, encompasses - amongst others -questions pertaining to the activities undertaken by Humanities and Social Sciences researchers, as well as questions regarding the use of content and metadata. This current document provides the background work which guided the design of the Web Survey and is meant to complement the related Web Survey findings which will comprise the User Requirements and Case Studies Analysis report, D1.3. Moreover, this work draws from and complements Deliverable 1.5 (Case Studies Expert Forum Report. The present desk research seeks to analyse the current situation related to digital research practices, tools and content for the humanities and social sciences research community, and will serve as an exploratory stage which will provide the basis for the confirmatory stage, that is the Content Strategy and User Requirements reports, due later on in the Project.
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