Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's English Newsbooks

参与搜索设计：乔治·托马森的英文新闻读物研究

• 批准号: AH/J002631/1
• 负责人: M Braddick
• 金额: $ 20.45万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ002631%2F1
• 关键词: Participating; Search; Design; Study; George

This project aims to understand how search is used within humanities research methodology and to use this knowledge in the design of better search interfaces for online resources which genuinely meet the needs of the research community. Data searching is now a core activity within humanities research and, given the vast evidence base which is now available to scholars in a digital form, the design of search has a significant impact on research results. However, the research community is rarely consulted when content providers are designing online resources and there tends to be an assumption that the search needs of humanities research are the same as those for other disciplines or non-academic knowledge gathering activities. This project will survey current practices in order to establish existing search methodologies and their deficiencies before using this knowledge to design a user interface for our test dataset and evaluate its impact on research in the field. The project will involve collaboration between the University's departments of History, English and Sociological Studies, the Humanities Research Institute and the content provider ProQuest. The test dataset will be approximately 50,000 pages of sixteenth-century newsbooks by George Thomason, currently only available as digitised images via ProQuest's EEBO. Test research questions for addressing the potential impact of the search design will revolve around understanding the role of newsbooks as the drivers of community formation. The project will explore the use of Participatory Design in developing search tools for the arts and humanities community. The aim of this methodology is to ensure that the design of ICT meets the needs of users by involving users in the design process and the ideal outcome of this project is to develop a test research resource which genuinely meets the needs of its users.Conventional technical development processes often involves consulting users at an early stage (but after data creation) in order to ascertain requirements and then conducting user testing towards the end of the development cycle. The problem with this approach is that the user's involvement is reactive and not immersive or creative and, as such, the technical development can quickly become divorced from the user's needs. By contrast, our Participatory Design methodology will explore the improvement of search through the following development process:1. A landscape survey of current search practices within arts and humanities research methodology.2. Development of a search interface for our test dataset using a Design Group which includes users throughout the entire development cycle.3. Final evaluation of the search interface using the test research questions.The outputs from the research will be as follows:1. A White Paper will document current research practices and search needs, identify the impact of current search design upon research outcomes and make recommendations for improving access to online resources through better search design.2. An edited volume of essays on Thomason's Newsbooks will presents new research contributed by the participants of the Design Group.3. A peer-reviewed article will explore the methodological implications of good and bad search design for humanities research.4. A peer-reviewed article will reflect on the merits of Participatory Design as a methodology for the digital content sectors.5. A new interface will provide full-text, searching of 50,000 pages of Newsbooks within ProQuest's EEBO.There are two speculative aspects to the proposed research:1. The acquisition of knowledge about search use within humanities research methodology and recommendations for improvement. We do not know the answers yet.2. The use of a Participatory Design methodology in developing better search. This is a new methodogical approach and we cannot guarantee that it will result in a better search interface.

本项目旨在了解如何在人文研究方法论中使用搜索，并将这些知识用于设计更好的在线资源搜索界面，以真正满足研究社区的需求。数据搜索现在是人文学科研究的核心活动，鉴于现在学者可以以数字形式获得大量的证据基础，搜索的设计对研究结果有重大影响。然而，当内容提供者设计在线资源时，很少征求研究界的意见，而且往往有一种假设，即人文研究的搜索需求与其他学科或非学术知识收集活动的搜索需求相同。该项目将调查当前的实践，以建立现有的搜索方法及其不足，然后使用这些知识为我们的测试数据集设计用户界面，并评估其对该领域研究的影响。该项目将涉及大学历史系、英语系和社会学研究系、人文研究所和内容提供商ProQuest之间的合作。测试数据集将是大约5万页由乔治·托马森（George Thomason）编写的16世纪新闻书籍，目前只能通过ProQuest的EEBO以数字化图像的形式获得。为了解决搜索设计的潜在影响，测试研究问题将围绕着理解新闻书籍作为社区形成的驱动因素的作用。该项目将探索利用参与式设计为艺术和人文社区开发搜索工具。这种方法的目的是通过让用户参与设计过程来确保ICT的设计满足用户的需求，而这个项目的理想结果是开发一个真正满足用户需求的测试研究资源。传统的技术开发过程通常包括在早期阶段（但在数据创建之后）咨询用户，以确定需求，然后在开发周期结束时进行用户测试。这种方法的问题在于，用户的参与是被动的，没有沉浸感或创造性，因此，技术开发可能很快就会脱离用户的需求。相比之下，我们的参与式设计方法将通过以下开发过程探索搜索的改进：1。艺术和人文研究方法中当前搜索实践的景观调查。使用包括整个开发周期的用户在内的Design Group为我们的测试数据集开发一个搜索界面。最后评价使用搜索界面进行测试研究问题。研究结果如下：1。白皮书将记录当前的研究实践和搜索需求，确定当前搜索设计对研究结果的影响，并提出建议，通过更好的搜索设计改善对在线资源的访问。在托马森的新闻丛书上的一篇文章的编辑卷将呈现由设计组的参与者贡献的新研究。一篇同行评议的文章将探讨人文学科研究中好的和坏的搜索设计的方法学含义。同行评议的文章将反映参与式设计作为数字内容部门方法论的优点。一个新的界面将提供全文，在ProQuest的EEBO中搜索5万页的newsbook。提出的研究有两个推测方面：1。在人文学科的研究方法中获取关于搜索使用的知识，并提出改进建议。我们还不知道答案。使用参与式设计方法开发更好的搜索。这是一种新的方法，我们不能保证它会带来更好的搜索界面。

项目成果

Understanding Design for the Digital Humanities.

了解数字人文设计。

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Wessels, B

Seventeenth-Century Journalism and the Digital Age, a special issue of Media History

十七世纪新闻与数字时代，媒体史特刊

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Michael J Braddick

Introduction

介绍

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45763-1_1
• 发表时间: 2020-05-28
• 期刊: Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose
• 作者: Burch KT

Books in the News in Cromwellian England

克伦威尔时代英格兰的新闻书籍

• DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2016.1270750
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Media History
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Nevitt M