Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users
This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library's public use on the web. The d...
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| description | This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library's public use on the web. The digital library is modeled to focus on serving secondary students information needs in conducting history projects. As such, in the implementation of the digital library, the use of online resources would be an integral part of history project based learning activities. Students should be enabled to access digital resources, create and publish their own documents in the digital library and share them with others. As a testbed system, the collaborative digital library known as CoreDev has demonstrated its capabilities in serving an educational community as has been reflected by the positive feedback on the functional requirements from 44 users. Over 75 of the respondents in the user survey considered themselves capable of using the digital library easily. The beta tester demographics (n = 105) indicate that the digital library is reaching its target communities. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-61592014-10-31T12:47:57Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/6159/ Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users Abdullah, A. Zainab, A.N. Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library's public use on the web. The digital library is modeled to focus on serving secondary students information needs in conducting history projects. As such, in the implementation of the digital library, the use of online resources would be an integral part of history project based learning activities. Students should be enabled to access digital resources, create and publish their own documents in the digital library and share them with others. As a testbed system, the collaborative digital library known as CoreDev has demonstrated its capabilities in serving an educational community as has been reflected by the positive feedback on the functional requirements from 44 users. Over 75 of the respondents in the user survey considered themselves capable of using the digital library easily. The beta tester demographics (n = 105) indicate that the digital library is reaching its target communities. 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/6159/1/Collaborative_Digital_Library_of_Historical_Resources_Evaluation_of_First_Users.pdf Abdullah, A. and Zainab, A.N. (2007) Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 12 (2). pp. 99-122. ISSN 1394-6234, http://ejum.fsktm.um.edu.my/article/569.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources Abdullah, A. Zainab, A.N. Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users |
| title | Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users |
| title_short | Collaborative digital library of historical resources: evaluation of first users |
| title_sort | collaborative digital library of historical resources evaluation of first users |
| topic | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources |
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