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
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
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如果你建造它，他们会来吗？
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2006
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Nikoleta Pappa
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C. Warwick;Melissa Terras;Paul Huntington;Nikoleta Pappa
现在有许多人文学科的在线数字资源，它们的创建由各种政府，学术和慈善来源资助。这些资源在完成后会发生什么，人们知之甚少。没有系统的调查数字资源在人文科学的使用已经被证实和使用和不使用的数字资源的因素是未知的。LAIRAH（艺术和人文学科互联网资源日志分析）项目是一项为期15个月的研究，旨在研究决定艺术和人文学科长期使用和忽视数字资源的因素。使用定量深度日志分析技术来了解实时用户行为和定性用户研讨会，以了解艺术和人文领域数字资源的用户方法，该研究确定了可能导致数字资源长期使用或被忽视的因素。本文概述了LAIRAH项目中使用的技术，并提出了一些初步的结果，可能是有用的人文数字资源的创建者，这些项目的资助者，以确保显着的智力努力和时间，和财政资源，不浪费在创建项目，然后被用户社区忽视。
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.