Mulatiningsih, Bekti and Raunik, Anna and Partridge, Helen User participation in the categorisation of the State Library of Queensland digital image collections: characteristics, motivations and experiences., 2012 . In International Conference and Workshop: Making You Know, Depok, Indonesia, 18 - 19 October 2012. [Conference paper]
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In 2010, the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) donated their out-of-copyright Queensland images to Wikimedia Commons. One direct effect of publishing the collections at Wikimedia Commons is the ability of general audiences to participate and help the library in processing the images in the collection. This paper will discuss a project that explored user participation in the categorisation of the State Library of Queensland digital image collections. The outcomes of this project can be used to gain a better understanding of user participation that lead to improving access to library digital collections. Two techniques for data collection were used: documents analysis and interview. Document analysis was performed on the Wikimedia Commons monthly reports. Meanwhile, interview was used as the main data collection technique in this research. The data collected from document analysis was used to help the researchers to devise appropriate questions for interviews. The interviews were undertaken with participants who were divided into two groups: SLQ staff members and Wikimedians (users who participate in Wikimedia). The two sets of data collected from participants were analysed independently and compared. This method was useful for the researchers to understand the differences between the experiences of categorisation from both the librarians’ and the users’ perspectives. This paper will provide a discussion on the preliminary findings that have emerged from each group participant. This research provides preliminary information about the extent of user participation in the categorisation of SLQ collections in Wikimedia Commons that can be used by SLQ and other interested libraries in describing their digital content by their categorisations to improve user access to the collection in the future.
| Item type: | Conference paper |
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| Keywords: | Participatory Library, User Participation, Collection Categorisation, User Experience, Folksonomy, Information Organisation |
| Subjects: | C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DF. Government libraries. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HI. Electronic Media. I. Information treatment for information services > IA. Cataloging, bibliographic control. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization. L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW. |
| Depositing user: | Bekti Mulatiningsih |
| Date deposited: | 21 Nov 2012 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:24 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17997 |
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