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Ethnography, Evaluation, and Design as Integrated Strategies: A Case Study from WES

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2001)

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The Water in the Earth System (WES) collection is a collection of the Digital Library for Earth System Education. As WES relies on its user community to generate metadataresources; identification of robust user community features, and ofpotential user community problems, is thereforeimportant. This paper describes (a) how ethnography is being used to studythe WES community; (b) how technological frames theory and technology usemediation theory is being used to analyse this data; and (c) how researchoutcomes are being used to generate recommendations for supporting future WES development.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, CB 233, Boulder, CO, 80309-0233, U.S.A.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Leof. Knossou, P.O. Box 1470, 71409, Heraklion, Greece

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  2. Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Panos Constantopoulos

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

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Khoo, M. (2001). Ethnography, Evaluation, and Design as Integrated Strategies: A Case Study from WES. In: Constantopoulos, P., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44796-2_23

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