TY - JOUR
T1 - User engagement with digital archives for research and teaching
T2 - A case study of Emblematica Online
AU - Green, Harriett E.
AU - Lampron, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
Emblematica Online was created as the first comprehensive portal to digitized rare emblem books across multiple collections. The first phase of the research project was funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/DFG (Deutsche Forschun-gsgemeinschaft or German Research Foundation) Bilateral Digital Humanities Grant. It entailed a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Herzog August Library to create the OpenEmblem Portal digital library with approximately 700 digitized emblem books from their collections. The second phase, funded by an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant, sought to expand the collections and advance the metadata aggregation with more digitized content from the University of Illinois and the Herzog August Library. The second phase also greatly expanded the breadth of the collection with added digitized holdings from the University of Glasgow in Scotland; Utrecht University in the Netherlands; Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; and the Getty Institute in Los Angeles, California.10 At the time of this writing, Emblematica Online contained approximately 1,381 digitized emblem books from these institutions’ collections and 28,413 individual digitized emblems.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers’ needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for Emblematica Online, a research digital library that provides digitized versions of emblem books from leading rare book collections. This paper examines the ways in which scholars engage with the special collections contained within Emblematica Online through analysis of interviews. The authors propose that the diverse and complex uses of digital special collections require libraries and archives to consider expanding the capabilities of their digital content and platforms.
AB - Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers’ needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for Emblematica Online, a research digital library that provides digitized versions of emblem books from leading rare book collections. This paper examines the ways in which scholars engage with the special collections contained within Emblematica Online through analysis of interviews. The authors propose that the diverse and complex uses of digital special collections require libraries and archives to consider expanding the capabilities of their digital content and platforms.
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U2 - 10.1353/pla.2017.0045
DO - 10.1353/pla.2017.0045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031119714
SN - 1531-2542
VL - 17
SP - 759
EP - 775
JO - Portal
JF - Portal
IS - 4
ER -