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Article: Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library
Title | Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library |
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Authors | |
Keywords | User-centered evaluation Cultural heritage E-Dunhuang Usability testing Digital libraries |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Sciendo. The Journal's web site is located at https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/dim/dim-overview.xml |
Citation | Data and Information Management, 2018, v. 2 n. 2, p. 57-69 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Digital libraries have been strategic in preserving and making non-movable cultural heritage information accessible to everyone with network connections. In light of their cultural and historical importance in the ancient “Silk Road,” murals and stone caves in Dunhuang, a remote city in northwest China,have been digitized, and the first batch of digitized visual materials has been made available to the general public through the e-Dunhuang digital library since May 2016. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate e-Dunhuang from users’ perspectives, through usability testing with nine user tasks in different complexity levels and in-depth interviews with regard to a set of criteria in user experience. The results of quantitative analysis confirmed the overall effectiveness of e-Dunhuang in supporting user task completion and demonstrated significant improvements in several criteria over an earlier panorama collection of Dunhuang caves. The results of qualitative analysis revealed in-depth reasons for why participants felt satisfied with some criteria but had concerns with other criteria. Based on the findings, suggestions are proposed for further improvement in e-Dunhuang. As e-Dunhuang is a representative repository of digitized visual materials of cultural heritage, this study offers insights and empirical findings on user-centered evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/259583 |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.432 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Hu, X | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-03T04:10:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-03T04:10:17Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Data and Information Management, 2018, v. 2 n. 2, p. 57-69 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2543-9251 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/259583 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Digital libraries have been strategic in preserving and making non-movable cultural heritage information accessible to everyone with network connections. In light of their cultural and historical importance in the ancient “Silk Road,” murals and stone caves in Dunhuang, a remote city in northwest China,have been digitized, and the first batch of digitized visual materials has been made available to the general public through the e-Dunhuang digital library since May 2016. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate e-Dunhuang from users’ perspectives, through usability testing with nine user tasks in different complexity levels and in-depth interviews with regard to a set of criteria in user experience. The results of quantitative analysis confirmed the overall effectiveness of e-Dunhuang in supporting user task completion and demonstrated significant improvements in several criteria over an earlier panorama collection of Dunhuang caves. The results of qualitative analysis revealed in-depth reasons for why participants felt satisfied with some criteria but had concerns with other criteria. Based on the findings, suggestions are proposed for further improvement in e-Dunhuang. As e-Dunhuang is a representative repository of digitized visual materials of cultural heritage, this study offers insights and empirical findings on user-centered evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sciendo. The Journal's web site is located at https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/dim/dim-overview.xml | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Data and Information Management | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | User-centered evaluation | - |
dc.subject | Cultural heritage | - |
dc.subject | E-Dunhuang | - |
dc.subject | Usability testing | - |
dc.subject | Digital libraries | - |
dc.title | Usability Evaluation of E-Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Digital Library | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Hu, X: xiaoxhu@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Hu, X=rp01711 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2478/dim-2018-0008 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 288451 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 57 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 69 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Poland | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2543-9251 | - |