Download - Users digital preservation
Use of Digital Materials: Identifying users
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Information Behaviour of theResearcher of the Futurehttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf
User’s information behaviour is changing rapidly. According to a global survey by OCLC on undergraduate students:•89 percent of undergraduates use search engines to begin an information search (while only 2 per cent start from a library web site)•93 per cent are satisfied or very satisfied with their overall experience of using a search engine (compared with 84 per cent for a librarian-assisted search)•undergraduates still use the library, but they are using it less (and reading less) since they first began using internet research tools•`books’ are still the primary library brand association for this group, despite massive investment in digital resources, of which students are largely unfamiliar
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Integrity Integration
Instant access
Ingest ofcontent
Interaction
USER
What Users Want? The 10 “In” rules.
Indefinite access
Innovation
Interpretation
Information
Interoperability
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What users want?
1. Integrity: access to digital object as it has been created
2. Integration: different contents and file formats available from a single platform
3. Interoperability: different programmes and operating systems compatible with each other
4. Instant access: access to material, especially from mobile devices
5. Interaction: catalogues that provide Web 2.0 features (blogs, wikis, tags, content sharing, etc)
6. Information: comprehensive metadata for fast and reliable retrieval of content
7. Ingest of content: constant update of new digital content
8. Interpretation: digital content placed in relation to other items in the collection
9. Innovation: material to be presented in innovative ways
10. Indefinite access: digital objects to be preserved for posterity
Some examples of how BL is facilitating access to digital material
Digitised material:
Turning the Pages: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Content:
BL Management and Business Studies Portal: http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/
Catalogue:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/catblhold/all/allcat.html
Archive of digital-born content:
Web Archive: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
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