| Digital
library toolkit |
"The
Digital Library Tool Kit is sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Computer Company in the hopes of addressing some of
the leading questions that academic institutions,
public libraries, government agencies, and museums
face in trying to develop digital content and distribute
it on the Worldwide Web."
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| Digital
library standards and practices |
"The DLF will
identify, document, organizationally endorse, and
promote adoption of those standards and best practices
that support the effective acquisition, interchange,
persistence, and assessment of digital library collections
and services. These pages open out onto work in this
area."
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| The
D-Lib Test Suite |
"The D-Lib
Test Suite is a group of digital library testbeds
that are made available over the Internet for research
in digital libraries, information management, collaboration,
visualization, and related disciplines. The Test
Suite: (a) lowers the barriers to entry for new
researchers, (b) provides standard sets of data
for quantitative and comparative research, (c) is
a platform for experiments in interoperability and
distributed systems."
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| EFX:
Evaluation support for FAIR and X4L Projects |
"The aim of this
section of the EFX web Toolkit is to provide enough
of a description of our approach to understanding
implicit theories of change to allow project teams
to carry out their own exercise in 'surfacing' the
assumptions embedded in their own work."
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| E-Metrics
(Measures for Electronic Resources) |
"The E-Metrics
project is is an effort to explore the feasibility
of defining and collecting data on the use and value
of electronic resources. Although ARL has some experience
in tracking expenditures for electronic resources
through the ARL Supplementary Statistics, there is
a widely held recognition that more work needs to
take place in this area."
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| EQUINOX:
Library performance measurement and quality management
system |
"EQUINOX -a two
year project (1998 - 2000)- was funded under the Telematics
for Libraries Programme of the European Commission.
This project addressed "the need of all libraries
to develop and use methods for measuring performance
in the new networked,
electronic environment, alongside traditional performance
measurement, and to operate these methods within a
framework of quality management".
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| eVALUEd
- an evaluation model for e-library developments |
"This toolkit
has been designed to support anyone planning to evaluate
Electronic Information Services (EIS) in UK Higher
Education Institutions. It has been developed by a
team at the University of Central England. This work
has been funded by HEFCE. This is a pilot version
of the toolkit and some sections are incomplete."
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| JUBILEE
Toolkit |
"JUBILEE is about
monitoring and evaluating user information behaviour
in relation to EIS (Electronic Information Services)
funded by the JISC. The JUBILEE project (JISC User
Behaviour in Information seeking: Longitudinal Evaluation
of EIS) has just completed its fourth year."
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| MetaLibrary |
"This is the
effort of DELOS WG 2.1 to collect information on all
sorts of digital library systems, projects, testbeds,
etc. and provide an intelligent testbed selection
and evaluation tool for these."
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| Project
COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic
Resources) |
"It is widely
agreed by producers and purchasers of information
that the use of these resources should be measured
in a more consistent way. Librarians want to understand
better how the information they buy from a variety
of sources is being used; publishers want to know
how the information products they disseminate are
being accessed. An essential requirement to meet these
objectives is an agreed international set of standards
and protocols governing the recording and exchange
of online usage data. The COUNTER Codes of Practice
provide these standards and protocols and are published
in full on this website."
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| Sense-Making
Methodology Site |
"Sense-Making
is an approach to thinking about and implementing
communication research and practice and the design
of communication-based systems and activities. It
consists of a set of philosophical assumptions, substantive
propositions, methodological framings, and methods.
It has been applied in myriad settings (e.g., libraries,
information systems, media systems, Web sites, public
information campaigns, classrooms, counselling services,
and so on), at myriad levels (e.g., intrapersonal,
interpersonal, small group, organizational, national,
global), and within myriad perspectives (e.g., constructivist,
critical, cultural, feminist, postmodern, communitarian)."
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| The
usability methods toolbox |
| A compilation
of information about almost all of the methods and
techniques used in usability evaluation. This site
isn't updated for a long time (10 June 1998), but
still remains a comprehensive look at usability techniques. |
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