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Defining user requirements for Holocaust research infrastructures and services in the EHRI project
Stavros Angelis1 , Agiatis Benardou1 , Panos Constantopoulos1,2 & Costis Dallas1,3,4
{s.angelis@dcu.gr, a.benardou@dcu.gr, p.constantopoulos@dcu.gr, c.dallas@dcu.gr}
1 Digital
Curation Unit IMIS, Athena Research Centre, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece 3 Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University, Athens, Greece 4 Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada
Research Activity
How do researchers seek, find and organize unpublished materials? How does this activity differ in various stages of their research? What is the relative importance of textual, vs. non-textual resources, and what the effect of genre and format on their use? How do researchers use scholarly literature for a research project? How do researchers deal with resources in languages they do not know? How do researchers organize the information? Do they keep databases? How do researchers keep notes? How do they organize them? Do researchers collaborate with their colleagues? At what stage in their research? Do they co-author?
Place
Where do researchers prefer to work? How is working in a archive different to working in a library, their office or home?
Context of confirmation
User requirement s
Ca. 15 Interviewees
Questionnaire survey factsheet Available online: http://www.surveymonkey. net/EHRI-researchers Dates: August 17th, 2011 to February 3rd, 2012 Responses to date: 223 Sampling method: purposive, to match EHRI user target population
Information technology use and place of work Many report using online document storage, virtual community, or translation services, such a Google+ (54.9%), Google Docs (48.9%), Google Translate (38.3%), Dropbox (25.6%), Facebook (21.1%), academia.edu (18%) and LinkedIn (15%). 92.1% regularly use their own personal computer for research; 76.1% work regularly at home, 52.9% in a library and 46.5% in an archive. Strikingly, 24.3% already report using a digital tablet or other portable device for research purposes. More than 80% use computers to find and organize resources, to keep notes and communicate outcomes. 52% use a speadsheet for data management.