Professor Claire Warwick c.l.h.warwick@durham.ac.uk
Professor
There are now many online, digital resources in the humanities, and their creation is funded by various governmental, academic, and philanthropic sources. What happens to these resources after completion is very poorly understood. No systematic survey of digital resource usage in the humanities has ever been undertaken—and the factors for use and non-use of digital resources are unknown. The LAIRAH (Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities) Project is a 15-month long study into the factors which determine long-term use and neglect of digital resources in the Arts and Humanities. Using quantitative Deep Log Analysis techniques to understand real-time user behaviour and qualitative user workshops to gain an understanding of user approaches to digital resources in the arts and humanities, the study identifies factors that may predispose a digital resource to become used or neglected in the long-term. This article provides an overview of the techniques used in the LAIRAH project, and presents some preliminary results that may be of use to both the creators of digital resources in the humanities, and the funders of these projects, to ensure that significant intellectual effort and time, and financial resources, are not wasted in the creation of projects that are then neglected by the user community.
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., & Pappa, N. (2008). If You Build It Will They Come? The LAIRAH Study: Quantifying the Use of Online Resources in the Arts and Humanities through Statistical Analysis of User Log Data. Literary and linguistic computing, 23(1), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqm045
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Apr 1, 2008 |
Deposit Date | Sep 5, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 22, 2014 |
Journal | Literary and Linguistic Computing |
Print ISSN | 0268-1145 |
Electronic ISSN | 1477-4615 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 85-102 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqm045 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1454502 |
Related Public URLs | http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/176758/ |
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Literary and Linguistic Computing following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras, Paul Huntington, and Nikoleta Pappa (2008) 'If you build it will they come? The LAIRAH study : quantifying the use of online resources in the arts and humanities through statistical analysis of user log data.', Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23 (1): 85-102 is available online at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqm045.
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