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Work Package 1: Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement

Agiatis Benardou (DCU – Athena RC)

05 March 2013, The Hague

Participants

ATHENA Research and Innovation Center (Athena RC) - WP Leader

Stichting LIBER (LIBER)

Goeteborgs Universitet (UGOT)

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen (KNAW) / Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (NIOD)

Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

The University Of Edinburgh (UEDIN)

Consortium Of European Research Libraries (CERL)

Stichting Europeana (EF)

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (NLW)

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) (unfunded partner)

WP 1 Objectives

To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud

To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud

To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud

To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud

WP1: Tasks Overview

Task Objective Months Lead Beneficiary Deliverable(s) Month(s)

1.1 Humanities and Social Sciences Research Communities Advisory Board

1-36 NIOD 1.1 Research Communities identification and definition report

6 (Jul ‘13)

1.2 Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research

1-36 CERL 1.4 Content priorities for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Communities 1.5 Content Strategy Report

18 (Jul ‘14)

36 (Oct ‘15)

1.3 Research user requirements for Europeana: digital research practices, tools and content

1-26 DCU – ATHENA R.C.

1.2 State of the art report on digital research practices, tools and scholarly content use 1.3 User requirements analysis and case studies report

9 (Oct ‘13) 30 (Jul ‘15)

1.4 Research Community Engagement: Expert Forums

3-30 TCD 1.6 Expert Forums with reports

30 (Jul ‘15)

1.5 Research Community User Evaluation

24-36 DCU – ATHENA R.C.

1.7 Research Community Evaluation Report

36 (Oct ‘15)

Task 1.1: Humanities and Social Sciences Research Communities Advisory Board (RCAB)

Sub-Task Objective Milestones/Deliverables Interconnections

1.1.1 Establish the RCAB M1.1 RCAB established

1.1.2 RCAB coordination M1.5 RCAB meetings complete

Validating WP1 deliverables

1.1.3 Research Communities identification and definition

D1.1 Research Communities identification and definition report

Task 1.3.4 Research Communities Web Survey

Task 1.2: Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research


1.2.1 Desk Research: state of the art on scholarly content use

M1.2 to contribute to D1.2 WP4 (Ingestion of Content and Metadata Development)

1.2.2 Matching Europeana content to the Research Communities

D1.4 T1.1.3 Research community web survey design T1.3.5 Identify and create Humanities and Social Sciences case studiesT1.3.4 Research Communities web survey WP4 (Ingestion of Content and Metadata Development)

1.2.3 Content Strategy Development

D1.6 WP4 (Ingestion of Content and Metadata Development)

WP6 (Dissemination and Networking)

Task 1.3: Research user requirements for Europeana: digital research practices, tools and content


1.3.1 Desk research: digital research practices state of the art

M1.4 to contribute to D1.2

1.3.2 Desk research: digital tools state of the art

D1.2 WP3 (Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers)

1.3.3 Research community web survey design

1.3.4 Research Communities web survey

M1.3 T1.1.3 Research Communities identification and definition

1.3.5 Identify and create Humanities and Social Sciences case studies

T1.4.1

1.3.6 User requirements analysis and case studies report

D1.3 WP3 (Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers): Iterative Development of Tools

Task 1.4: Research Community Engagement: Expert Forums


1.4.1 Case Studies Expert Forum #1

T.3.5 Identify and create Humanities and Social Sciences case studies

1.4.2 Tools & Content for Humanities Research: Expert Forum #2

T1.2 Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research WP3 (Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers): Iterative Development of Tools

1.4.3 Tools & Content for Social Science Research Expert Fοrum #3

T1.2 Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research WP3 (Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers): Iterative Development of Tools

1.4.4 Future Recommendations Workshop (Expert Forum #4)

D1.5

Task 1.5: Research Community User Evaluation


1.5.1 Evaluation Framework Design

1.5.2 Evaluation workshops M1.6 WP3 (Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers): Iterative Development of Tools

1.5.3 Analysis, write-up and reporting update

D1.7

Researchers and Content:What do you think?

Generic Primitives* Features Included

Searching Direct searching Chaining Browsing Probing Accessing

Collecting Gathering Organizing

Reading Scanning Assessing Rereading

Writing Assembling Co-authoring Annotating

Sharing Collaborating Networking Consulting Disseminating

* Based on Palmer et al 2009

Researchers and Content

What kinds of research communities in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences communities does your content serve?

What kinds of communities within the Humanities and the Social Sciences would we like to serve within eCloud?

Do different subjects approach the discovery and use of content differently?

Does behaviour change for different types of content / format? (E.g. journals, images, audio/visual, manuscripts, historical records etc)

Is multidisciplinarity a drawback in interacting with content and if so, in what ways?

Discovery and Access of Content

How do users discover content appropriate to their research? What are they key problems they face at this stage?

What about catalogue information which is not available in digital form?

What about rights restrictions permitting access?

What are the finding aids provided and how do users interact with them?

Do different kinds of users interact differently with different kinds of finding aids?

What are the main problems encountered by users regarding access and privacy?

What are your views on user generated content?

What are the key problems with the terminology researchers use to access content?

Use of Content

What do researchers usually do once they have gained access to the content they need? How do they annotate and organize their material? What could be done to facilitate this process fot them?

What new tools do you think could assist researchers most in navigating themselves within your collections and making the most of them?

Sharing of Content

How do researchers share, redistribute and disseminate content? What are the main pitfalls in this?

What are your views on crowd sourcing and social media tools?

Curation of Content

In what ways can researchers enrich, through annotation and scholarly critical editions, content?

By the end of the project what are the 5 key barriers to using content for Humanities and Social Sciences research that we should overcome?

Thank you

Agiatis Benardou

[email protected]

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