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The PRET A Rapporter framework: Evaluating digital libraries from the perspective of information work (2008)
Journal Article
Blandford, A., Adams, A., Attfield, S., Buchanan, G., Gow, J., Makri, S., …Warwick, C. (2008). The PRET A Rapporter framework: Evaluating digital libraries from the perspective of information work. Information Processing and Management, 44(1), 4-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2007.01.021

The strongest tradition of IR systems evaluation has focused on system effectiveness; more recently, there has been a growing interest in evaluation of Interactive IR systems, balancing system and user-oriented evaluation criteria. In this paper we s... Read More about The PRET A Rapporter framework: Evaluating digital libraries from the perspective of information work.

Library and information resources and users of digital resources in the humanities (2008)
Journal Article
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Galina, I., Huntington, P., & Pappa, N. (2008). Library and information resources and users of digital resources in the humanities. Program (London. 1966), 42(1), 5-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330810851555

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss the results of the Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities (LAIRAH) study. It aims to concentrate upon the use and importance of information resources, physical research centre... Read More about Library and information resources and users of digital resources in the humanities.

User Engagement Research. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fisher, C., Terras, M., & Warwick, C. (2007). User Engagement Research.

Representing aggregate works in the digital library (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, G., Gow, J., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J., & Warwick, C. (2007). Representing aggregate works in the digital library. In E. Rasmussen, R. R. Larson, E. Toms, & S. Sugimoto (Eds.), JCDL 2007 : proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE joint conference on digital libraries : Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-23, 2007 : building and sustaining the digital environment (247-256). https://doi.org/10.1145/1255175.1255224

This paper studies the challenge of representing aggregate works such as encyclopedias, collected poems and journals in heterogenous digital library collections. Reflecting on the materials used by humanities academics, we demonstrate the varied rang... Read More about Representing aggregate works in the digital library.

Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Galina, I., Huntington, P., & Pappa, N. (2007). Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project. In Openness in digital publishing : awareness, discovery, and access : proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Vienna, June 13-15, 2007 (297-306)

The following paper presents a case study of the way that the research done by the LAIRAH project may be applied in the case of a real digital resource for humanities scholarship. We present an evaluation of the Internet Shakespeare Editions website... Read More about Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project.

The Master Builders: LAIRAH Research on Good Practice in the Construction of Digital Humanities Projects (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., Pappa, N., & Galina, I. (2007). The Master Builders: LAIRAH Research on Good Practice in the Construction of Digital Humanities Projects. In S. Schmidt, R. Siemens, A. Kumar, & J. Unsworth (Eds.), Digital humanities 2007. The 19th joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign June 4 - June 8, 2007 (242-244)

This paper describes the results of research carried out during the LAIRAH (Log analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities) project () which is based at UCL’s School of Library Archive and Information Studies. It was a fifteen month st... Read More about The Master Builders: LAIRAH Research on Good Practice in the Construction of Digital Humanities Projects.

A library or just another information resource? A case study of users' mental models of traditional and digital libraries (2007)
Journal Article
Makri, S., Blandford, A., Gow, J., Rimmer, J., Warwick, C., & Buchanan, G. (2007). A library or just another information resource? A case study of users' mental models of traditional and digital libraries. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(3), 433-445. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20510

A user's understanding of the libraries they work in, and hence of what they can do in those libraries, is encapsulated in their “mental models” of those libraries. In this article, we present a focused case study of users' mental models of tradition... Read More about A library or just another information resource? A case study of users' mental models of traditional and digital libraries.

Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blandford, A., Gow, J., Buchanan, G., Warwick, C., & Rimmer, J. (2007). Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library. In C. Baranauskas, P. Palanque, J. Abascal, & S. D. J. Barbosa (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74796-3_23

Many systems form ’chains’ whereby developers use one system (or ’tool’) to create another system, for use by other people. Little work within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has considered how usability considerations propagate through such chains... Read More about Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library..

What's in a name? Measuring use and non-use of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities through Log Analysis Techniques. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., Pappa, N., & Galina, I. (2006). What's in a name? Measuring use and non-use of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities through Log Analysis Techniques.

September 3-6, Dartington College of Arts. The LAIRAH (Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities) project aims to determine whether, how and why digital resources in the humanities are used, and what factors might make them usable... Read More about What's in a name? Measuring use and non-use of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities through Log Analysis Techniques..

The LAIRAH Project: Log Analysis of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities. Final Report to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2006)
Report
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., Pappa, N., & Galina, I. (2006). The LAIRAH Project: Log Analysis of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities. Final Report to the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Digital Humanities is a relatively young but very productive discipline. In its short history scholars have produced thousands of digital resources which have been funded by governments, philanthropic bodies and universities. In the UK alone, over 25... Read More about The LAIRAH Project: Log Analysis of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities. Final Report to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Representing aggregate works in the digital library (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, G., Gow, J., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J., & Warwick, C. (2006). Representing aggregate works in the digital library. In J. Gonzalo, C. Thanos, M. Verdejo, & R. Carrasco (Eds.), Research and advanced technology for digital libraries : 10th European conference, ECDL 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 17-22, 2006 ; proceedings (532-535). https://doi.org/10.1007/11863878_61

This paper studies the challenge of representing aggregate works such as encyclopaedia, collected poems and journals in digital libraries. Reflecting on materials used by humanities academics, it demonstrates the complex range of aggregate types and... Read More about Representing aggregate works in the digital library.

The (In)visibility of Digital Humanites Resources in Academic Contexts. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pappa, N., Warwick, C., Terras, M., & Huntington, P. (2006). The (In)visibility of Digital Humanites Resources in Academic Contexts. In C. Sun, S. Menasri, & J. Ventura (Eds.),

This poster aims to determine how easy is to find digital resources for humanities use, and whether links are made to such resources or portal sites (such as Humbul and AHDS) from library and humanities department websites. We have undertaken this ta... Read More about The (In)visibility of Digital Humanites Resources in Academic Contexts..

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. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., & Pappa, N. (2006). 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. In C. Sun, S. Menasri, & J. Ventura (Eds.),

The LAIRAH (Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities) project aims to determine whether, how and why digital resources in the humanities are used, and what factors might make them usable and sustainable in future. Based at UCL an... Read More about 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..