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User Needs for Enhanced Engagement with Cultural Heritage Collections

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This paper presents research carried out in order to elicit user needs for the design and development of a digital library and research platform intended to enhance user engagement with cultural heritage collections. It outlines a range of user constituencies for this digital library. The paper outlines a taxonomy of intended users for this system and describes in detail the characteristics and requirements of these users for the facilitation and enhancement of their engagement with and use of textual and visual cultural artefacts.

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  • Digital Library
  • User Requirement
  • User Acceptance
  • Cultural Artefact
  • Research Platform

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  1. Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Mark S. Sweetnam & Micheál Ó Siochrú

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  3. Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Italy

    Nicola Orio & Chiara Ponchia

  4. Knowledge Management Institute, Graz University of Technology, Austria

    Christina M. Steiner & Eva-Catherine Hillemann

  5. Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Séamus Lawless

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  1. Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris & Fernando Loizides & 

  2. School of Informatics, City University of London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    George Buchanan

  3. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, The University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Edie Rasmussen

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Sweetnam, M.S. et al. (2012). User Needs for Enhanced Engagement with Cultural Heritage Collections. In: Zaphiris, P., Buchanan, G., Rasmussen, E., Loizides, F. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_8

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