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- Borlund, Pia, et al.
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Information searching in cultural heritage archives : a user study
- 2024
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In: Journal of Documentation. - Leeds, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0022-0418 .- 1758-7379.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- PurposeThe PICCH research project contributes to opening a dialogue between cultural heritage archives and users. Hence, the users are identified and their information needs, the search strategies they apply and the search challenges they experience are uncovered.Design/methodology/approachA combination of questionnaires and interviews is used for collection of data. Questionnaire data were collected from users of three different audiovisual archives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two user groups: (1) scholars searching information for research projects and (2) archivists who perform their own scholarly work and search information on behalf of others.FindingsThe questionnaire results show that the archive users mainly have an academic background. Hence, scholars and archivists constitute the target group for in-depth interviews. The interviews reveal that their information needs are multi-faceted and match the information need typology by Ingwersen. The scholars mainly apply collection-specific search strategies but have in common primarily doing keyword searching, which they typically plan in advance. The archivists do less planning owing to their knowledge of the collections. All interviewees demonstrate domain knowledge, archival intelligence and artefactual literacy in their use and mastering of the archives. The search challenges they experience can be characterised as search system complexity challenges, material challenges and metadata challenges.Originality/valueThe paper provides a rare insight into the complexity of the search situation of cultural heritage archives, and the users’ multi-facetted information needs and hence contributes to the dialogue between the archives and the users.
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- Borlund, Pia, et al.
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Scholars’ Searching for Audio-Visual Information in Archives
- 2023
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In: View. - : Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. - 2213-0969. ; 12:24, s. 87-101
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper contributes insights into scholars’ information searching in audio-visual archives, more specifically in relation to postcolonial research projects. The paper introduces the concept of information needs based on the framework by Ingwersen. Further, the paper addresses the scholars’ search strategies and the search challenges they experienced. Insights are obtained via in-depth interviews with six scholars. The scholars adapt collection-specific search strategies and make extensive use of keyword searching. The study demonstrates the complexity of searching archives for information and how demanding searching is withrespect to requiring domain knowledge, artefactual literacy, and archival intelligence. Finally, the importance of access to the expertise of archivists is confirmed.
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- Byström, Katriina, et al.
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Editorial : Open 24/7. A Special Second Issue
- 2009
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In: Journal of Information Architecture. - : Copenhagen Business School. - 1903-7260. ; 1:2, s. 1-3
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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