Abstract
Cultural heritage digital libraries hold promise both as a new tool for representing the complex information structures frequently found in the humanities and social sciences and as interactive environments that enable scholars to work with this information in new ways throughout the research project. Much attention has been paid to digitization, textual encoding, metadata and dissemination of digital cultural heritage data. Scholars now routinely turn toward electronic sources as a first step in their information finding process. Considerably less attention, however, has been devoted to understanding how to support the formative stages of scholarly research.
In this paper, we highlight our finding from a formative user study of scholarly analysis of source documents in several different fields. We discuss the implications of these results for our current research into designing a web-based creativity support environment for cultural heritage digital libraries.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Audenaert, N., Furuta, R.: What humanists want: how scholars use primary source documents. In: Joint Conference on Digital Lbiraries, JCDL 2010 (2010) (forthcoming)
Borgman, C.L.: The digital future is now: A call to action for the humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly 3(4) (2009)
Buchanan, G., et al.: Information seeking by humanities scholars. In: Rauber, A., Christodoulakis, S., Tjoa, A.M. (eds.) ECDL 2005. LNCS, vol. 3652, pp. 218–229. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Csikszentmihalyi, M.: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. HarperCollins, New York (1996)
Ellis, D.: A behavioural model for information retrieval system design. Journal of Information Science 15(4/5), 237–247 (1989)
Lavagnino, J.: When not to use TEI. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern Language Association, New York, http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/lavagnino.xml (viewed May 2010)
Marshall, C.C., Shipman, F.M.: Spatial hypertext and the practice of information triage. In: ACM Conference on Hypertext (Hypertext 1997), pp. 124–133 (1997)
McGann, J.: The Rational of Hypertext. In: Sutherland, K. (ed.) Investigations in Method and Theory, pp. 19–46. Clarendon Press, Oxford (1997)
Shneiderman, B.: Creativity support tools: accelerated discovery and innovation. Communications of the ACM 50(12), 20–32 (2007)
Shipman, F., Marshall, C.: Spatial hypertext: an alternative to navigational and semantic links. ACM Computing Surveys 31(4es) (1999)
Shipman, F.M., Marshall, C.C.: Formality Considered Harmful: Experiences, Emerging Themes, and Directions on the Use of Formal Representations in Interactive Systems. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 8(4), 333–352 (1999)
Stone, S.: Humanities scholars: information needs and uses. Journal of Documentation 38(4), 673–691 (1982)
Tanselle, G.: Critical Editions, Hypertexts, and Genetic Criticism. Romanic Review 86, 581–593 (1995)
Tibbo, H.R.: Primarily history: historians and the search for primary source materials. In: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), pp. 1–10 (2002)
Toms, E.G., O’Brien, H.L.: Understanding the information and communication technology needs of the e-humanist. Journal of Documentation 64(1), 102–130 (2008)
Unsworth, J.: Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this? In: Paper Given at Humanities Computing: Formal Methods, Experimental Practice, King’s College, London (2000), http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth//Kings.5-00/primitives.html (viewed May 2010)
Yamamoto, Y., Nakakoji, K., Aoki, A.: Spatial Hypertext for linear-information authoring: Interaction design and system development based on the ART Design principle. In: ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2002), pp. 35–44 (2002)
Zhang, J., Marchionini, G.: Evaluation and evolution of a browse and search interface: Relation Browser++. In: 2005 National Conference on Digital Government Research, pp. 179–188 (2005)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Audenaert, N., Lucchese, G., Furuta, R. (2010). CritSpace: A Workspace for Critical Engagement within Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries. In: Lalmas, M., Jose, J., Rauber, A., Sebastiani, F., Frommholz, I. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_31
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_31
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-15463-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-15464-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)