In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges for researchers and digital resource creators alike. This book will be of interest to those who want to investigate how user studies can inform our understanding of technological phenomena, including digital resource creators, students and researchers in universities, libraries and archives. It also asks the timely question: what can the large-scale…mehr
In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges for researchers and digital resource creators alike. This book will be of interest to those who want to investigate how user studies can inform our understanding of technological phenomena, including digital resource creators, students and researchers in universities, libraries and archives. It also asks the timely question: what can the large-scale digitisation of newspapers tell us about the wider cultural phenomenon of mass digitisation?Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Gooding is Research Fellow in Digital Humanities in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.
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Contents Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: Search All About It! Methods for Assessing Impact User Studies in the Age of Large-Scale Newspaper Digitisation Summary Chapter Bibliography 1 The Myth of the New Google Books: The Universal Library Reimagined The Role of the Technological Sublime Diffusion of Innovations Mechanical Reproduction and the End of the Age of the Author The City and Information Overload Reality and Remediation Summary: Waiting for the Paradigm Shift Chapter Bibliography 2 Digitised Newspapers: Histories, Contexts, Behaviours The History of Newspapers in the United Kingdom Issues for the Identity of Libraries in the Digital Age Existing Research into Online User Behaviour Summary: Concurrent Discourses of Digitisation Chapter Bibliography 3 Exploring Methods for Evaluating User Behaviour Methods for Case Study Research Quantitative Methods Web Analytics Referrer Analysis Citation Analysis Link Analysis Qualitative Methods Interviews Surveys Summary Chapter Bibliography 4 Institutional Impact of Large-Scale Digitised Collection Institutional Impact Case Study: Using interviews to identify institutional impacts Implications for User Support Licensing and Copyright: Dual Barriers to Impact What Role do Libraries Have in an Age of Large-Scale Digitisation? Summary: Online Access and the Future of Libraries Chapter Bibliography 5 The Impact of Large-Scale Digitisation upon Users Users of Large-Scale Digitisation Case Study: Citation Analysis of BNCN Case Study: Online Survey of Users of Digitised Newspapers Changing Models of User Behaviour Case Study: Web Log Analysis of Welsh Newspapers Online Engagement with Users of Large-Scale Digitised Collections Summary: Where We're Going We'll Still Need Readers Chapter Bibliography 6 "Unequally Free": Mapping Public Access to Digitised Collections Innovative Technologies, Longstanding Tensions Mapping the Digitised Divide Case Study: Mapping the Users of Digitised Newspaper Collections Inequalities in Access by English Public Library Authority Summary: The Digitised Divide in Action Chapter Bibliography 7 Conclusion: Where We're Going, We'll Still Need Ranganathan Introduction Access to Digitised Library Collections Recommendations The Stakes for Digitised Collections Open Access Open Interfaces Open Dialogue Summary: Library Digitisation as a Public Service Chapter Bibliography
Contents Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: Search All About It! Methods for Assessing Impact User Studies in the Age of Large-Scale Newspaper Digitisation Summary Chapter Bibliography 1 The Myth of the New Google Books: The Universal Library Reimagined The Role of the Technological Sublime Diffusion of Innovations Mechanical Reproduction and the End of the Age of the Author The City and Information Overload Reality and Remediation Summary: Waiting for the Paradigm Shift Chapter Bibliography 2 Digitised Newspapers: Histories, Contexts, Behaviours The History of Newspapers in the United Kingdom Issues for the Identity of Libraries in the Digital Age Existing Research into Online User Behaviour Summary: Concurrent Discourses of Digitisation Chapter Bibliography 3 Exploring Methods for Evaluating User Behaviour Methods for Case Study Research Quantitative Methods Web Analytics Referrer Analysis Citation Analysis Link Analysis Qualitative Methods Interviews Surveys Summary Chapter Bibliography 4 Institutional Impact of Large-Scale Digitised Collection Institutional Impact Case Study: Using interviews to identify institutional impacts Implications for User Support Licensing and Copyright: Dual Barriers to Impact What Role do Libraries Have in an Age of Large-Scale Digitisation? Summary: Online Access and the Future of Libraries Chapter Bibliography 5 The Impact of Large-Scale Digitisation upon Users Users of Large-Scale Digitisation Case Study: Citation Analysis of BNCN Case Study: Online Survey of Users of Digitised Newspapers Changing Models of User Behaviour Case Study: Web Log Analysis of Welsh Newspapers Online Engagement with Users of Large-Scale Digitised Collections Summary: Where We're Going We'll Still Need Readers Chapter Bibliography 6 "Unequally Free": Mapping Public Access to Digitised Collections Innovative Technologies, Longstanding Tensions Mapping the Digitised Divide Case Study: Mapping the Users of Digitised Newspaper Collections Inequalities in Access by English Public Library Authority Summary: The Digitised Divide in Action Chapter Bibliography 7 Conclusion: Where We're Going, We'll Still Need Ranganathan Introduction Access to Digitised Library Collections Recommendations The Stakes for Digitised Collections Open Access Open Interfaces Open Dialogue Summary: Library Digitisation as a Public Service Chapter Bibliography
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