TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and evaluation of a task-based digital library for the academic community
AU - Chowdhury, Gobinda
AU - Meyyappan, N.
AU - Foo, Schubert
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The paper discusses the design, development and evaluation of a task-based digital library, the Digital Work Environment (DWE), for the academic community of higher education institutions (HEI) with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a test case. Three different information organisation approaches (alphabetical, subject category and task-based) were used to organise the wide range of heterogeneous information resources that were interfaced to DWE. A user evaluation study using a series of task scenarios was carried out to gauge the effectiveness and usefulness of DWE and these information organisation approaches. The time taken by respondents to identify and access the relevant information resources for individual tasks was also measured. The findings show that the task-based approach took the least time in identifying information resources. Regression analysis of information resource location time with gender, age, computer experience and digital resource experience of the participants are also reported.
AB - The paper discusses the design, development and evaluation of a task-based digital library, the Digital Work Environment (DWE), for the academic community of higher education institutions (HEI) with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a test case. Three different information organisation approaches (alphabetical, subject category and task-based) were used to organise the wide range of heterogeneous information resources that were interfaced to DWE. A user evaluation study using a series of task scenarios was carried out to gauge the effectiveness and usefulness of DWE and these information organisation approaches. The time taken by respondents to identify and access the relevant information resources for individual tasks was also measured. The findings show that the task-based approach took the least time in identifying information resources. Regression analysis of information resource location time with gender, age, computer experience and digital resource experience of the participants are also reported.
KW - digital libraries
KW - information management
KW - information retrieval
KW - information searching
UR - http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/research/publications/papers/strath_cis_publication_316.pdf
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00220410410548162
U2 - 10.1108/00220410410548162
DO - 10.1108/00220410410548162
M3 - Article
VL - 60
SP - 449
EP - 475
JO - Journal of Documentation
JF - Journal of Documentation
SN - 0022-0418
IS - 4
ER -