user engagement with digital archives: a case study of emblematica online
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User Engagement with Digital
Archives: A Case Study of
Emblematica Online
Harriett Green, Timothy Cole,
MJ Han, and Mara Wade
Library Research Showcase 2014
What is an Emblem?
Motto
Pictura
Subscriptio
Peter Isselburg, Emblemata Politica, 1617http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/B
ooks2009-10/emblematapolitic00isel/
@greenharr [email protected]
Emblematica Online
• Currently funded by NEH Humanities
Collections and Reference
Resources
• Provides single point of access to
digitized emblem books from libraries
in U.S., Germany, Netherlands, UK
• Conducting a user study of the Open
Emblem Portal
http://emblematica.library.illinois.edu
@greenharr [email protected]
User responses
Searching
Teaching
Research
Improve
Functionalities
• Understand research
practices of scholars
who use emblem books
• Understand behaviors of
researchers working
with Emblematica Online
and similar digital
archives
• Gather input on
functionalities and
services in Emblematica
Goals of study
Expand reach of
emblem scholarship
http://emblematica.library.illinois.edu
Functionalities
• Improved search
interface
• Facets by institution
• Emblem-level metadata
• IconClass cataloging
• Annotation Tool
• Collection Building tool
User Study
• Winter 2014: Usability
testing Open Emblem
portal
• ACRL 2015 paper on the
full user study
@greenharr
Coming Up Next….
Thank you!
Harriett Green
English and Digital Humanities Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Twitter: @greenharr
Photo Credits
• Joseph Mayer, Vortrefflich-Hoch-Adeliches
Controfeé,
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/EmblemRegistry:
E001002
• "Magnifying Glass,” by Auntie P, on Flickr,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/auntiep/171352
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• "Tunnel of black” by Shemsu.Hor, on Flickr,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shemsu_hor/14
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