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Evaluating the Value of Exploratory Tools in Digital Humanities Collections and Scholarly Projects: Discussions from Researchers, Developers, and Users’ Perspectives
Time:
Tuesday, 31/Oct/2023:
11:30am - 1:00pm
Location:Bouzy, 1st Floor, Novotel
Presentations
ID: 223 / [Single Presentation of ID 223]: 1 Panels 90 minutes Confirmation 1: I/we acknowledge that all session authors/presenters have read and agreed to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Policies Topics: Archives; Data Curation; and Preservation (archives; records; cultural heritage materials; digital data curation; digital libraries; digital humanities) Keywords: Digital humanities, digital curation, digital collections, exploratory tools, evaluation
Evaluating the Value of Exploratory Tools in Digital Humanities Collections and Scholarly Projects: Discussions from Researchers, Developers, and Users’ Perspectives
Rongqian Ma1, Annie T. Chen2, Alex Poole3, Alexandra Chassanoff4, Alexandra Wingate1
1Indiana University Bloomington, USA; 2University of Washington, USA; 3Drexel University, USA; 4University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Digital content management systems have enabled cultural heritage institutions and humanities researchers to create interactive, public-facing, and open-access scholarly work, including digital libraries, databases, archives, manuscripts, and collections. Exploratory tools have become a widely deployed feature of such digital projects that support in-depth, creative interaction with digital materials. However, producing and managing a digital project with such tools can be complex, time-consuming, and expensive, requiring significant financial investment, institutional support, and human capital. This has led to a critical need to evaluate the effectiveness of such embedded exploratory infrastructures across different stages of digital projects. This 90-minute panel discussion aims to explore the questions of how to evaluate the use and effect of such exploratory infrastructures, from diverse perspectives of researchers, developers, and downstream users. The panelists will draw from case studies to address questions such as: (1) the perceived value and impact of embedded exploratory tools, (2) the involvement of communities and stakeholders in the evaluation process, and when to conduct such evaluations, (3) the methods and approaches to evaluation, and (4) the interpretation of evaluation outcomes. The discussion will also delve into the challenges and opportunities associated with evaluating embedded exploratory tools in digital projects and scholarship.
