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Blog entry summarising six steps in identifying funding for gold open access publications.
Publishing in the networked world: transforming the nature of communication, Jun 1, 2010
Digital libraries are still being developed independently of the extensive involvement of end use... more Digital libraries are still being developed independently of the extensive involvement of end users, those who form their constituencies of use. The traditional approach to digital library development is to consult with experts or communities of practice in a particular field and attempt to incorporate recommendations into the interface functionality and service models, whilst user needs are often not comprehensively scoped in advance, at the development stage, or regularly consulted for the purposes of formative ...
Pregled Nacionalnog centra za digitalizaciju, 2011
Abstract. Cultural heritage digital libraries have a range of users including professionals;“digi... more Abstract. Cultural heritage digital libraries have a range of users including professionals;“digital natives” as well as general users. Their motivation and needs differ and one of the challenges in evaluating how digital libraries are perceived is to understand the specific points of view of various communities. The identification of stumbling blocks and features which are not satisfying users' expectations is aimed not only to develop a clearer understanding of users and to serve them better but also to sustain a steady user ...
The alignment of user needs with the technical capabilities of modern digital libraries is an are... more The alignment of user needs with the technical capabilities of modern digital libraries is an area attracting the interest of researchers and practitioners. Europeana, conceived with the intention of offering a single access point to European cultural heritage, has been developed in recent years with a continuous effort to identify and respond to the needs of a range of users. This paper presents a study of two user communities – young people and the general public. The study, conducted between October 2009 and January 2010, comprised a series of focus groups and media labs in Bulgaria, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. A distinctive aspect of this study is that it combines questionnaire-based and verbal feedback gathered from users with evidence of user actions whilst undertaking a well-defined task. The paper presents the context and the methodology of the study, and some of the data gathered within the study which helps to understand better the attitude of digital natives towards specialised digital libraries. The data analysis supports several conclusions: specialised digital libraries require strong advocacy to target the “digital natives” generation which tends to prefer general purpose search engines to specialised resources; young users are confident that they know how to use advanced search yet there is little evidence of their applying these skills in contrast to general public users; the perception of digital libraries differs in groups from different countries. The study contributes to the better understanding of some behavioural characteristics of users of digital libraries.
A New Focus on End Users: Eye-Tracking Analysis for Digital Libraries
Eye-tracking data was gathered as part of a user and functional evaluation of the Europeana v1.0 ... more Eye-tracking data was gathered as part of a user and functional evaluation of the Europeana v1.0 prototype, to determine which areas of the interface screen are most heavily used and which areas attract users’ attention but are not effectively used in search. Outputs from eye-tracking data can offer insight into how advanced search functions can be made more intuitive for end users with differing interests and abilities, and can be used to inform continued interface development as digital libraries look to the future. Results led to recommendations for the future development of the Europeana digital library.
User and Functional Testing
Final report, 2010
Table of contents Appendix 1. Focus groups protocol................................................. more Table of contents Appendix 1. Focus groups protocol........................................................................ ............... 2 Appendix 2. Demographic distribution of participants..................................................... ..... 12 Appendix 3. Two focus groups in Sofia ............................. ... ... This version of Europeana study protocols is designed for two purposes: 1) to prepare the moderators to conduct focus groups/media labs on-site; 2) to provide a general understanding on the characteristics and parameters of the study and the identified links to the web survey and the forthcoming user log analysis.
User studies for digital library development
Digital Libraries and Digitised Maps: An Early Overview of the DIGMAP Project
DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised histor... more DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised historical maps. The main service will reuse metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources to provide discovery and access to contents. This will also include a proof of concept of a scenario of reusing and enriching these metadata by automatic processes that will try to extract relevant indexing information from the images of the digitised maps, as well as from any kind of associated text.
Rev. Nat. Center Digitization, 2006
Abstract. Mass digitization leads to the gathering of large amounts of data and metadata in elect... more Abstract. Mass digitization leads to the gathering of large amounts of data and metadata in electronic form. Commonly, they are used for representation and data harvesting. In information retrieval we have the cases of records, which differ much from the main part of the data. They seem to be quite unusual than one would expect from the rest of the records and from the" knowledge" about the underlying process, which generates the information items. Such records are usually called “outliers”. This information can lead to substantial ...
Automation in Digital Preservation}, 2010
In this paper, we discuss the notion of genre as a basis for addressing the problem of context re... more In this paper, we discuss the notion of genre as a basis for addressing the problem of context representation in digital preservation. We outline several reference points for the notion of genre. This includes a review of diplomatic principles that can support and enhance the power of genre as a key to capture information about context relations. Further, we discuss the impact of open genre models and open topic models in information retrieval and finally present a list of research questions concerning future research in automation of ...
File Format Metadata (Definitive for Preservation
Digital Libraries (DL) are offering access to a vast amount of digital content, relevant to pract... more Digital Libraries (DL) are offering access to a vast amount of digital
content, relevant to practically all domains of human knowledge, which makes it
suitable to enhance teaching and learning. Based on a systematic literature review,
this article provides an overview and a gap analysis of educational use of DLs.
The seminar brought together scholars from (historical) linguistics, (historical) philology, comp... more The seminar brought together scholars from (historical) linguistics, (historical) philology, computational linguistics and computer science who work with collections of historical texts. These texts or digital libraries or corpora 1 are collected for a number of different purposes such as lexicography, history, linguistics, philology etc. This, naturally, leads to different decisions in their design and architecture. However, there are many issues that are common to many projects working with historical texts. These include: Standards and methods of digitization: historical texts have to be digitized from different sources. Sometimes it is necessary to digitize directly from a manuscript or early print. In these cases it is not possible to use current OCR technology, and the texts have to be double keyed (for example according to the standards developed in the Kompetenzzentrum Retrodigitalisierung in Trier). Newer texts can sometimes be scanned and OCRed, although even the relatively 'clean' 19 th century newspaper texts are often problematic. Fraktur and some other scripts (e.g. old Cyrillic scripts) also pose problems for OCR. For some research questions it is possible to work with editions. In these cases the digitization itself is not an issue (if the editions are new). It has to be decided, however, how to deal with a critical apparatus. Design (composition) of corpora: While literary scholars often work on one text (or a small number of related texts), many research questions in linguistics and lexicography require a collection of several texts. Corpus design is, of course, always an issue in corpus construction. Ideally a matrix of the necessary parameters (text type, author, time etc.) is constructed and all 'cells' are filled with the appropriate texts. For older time periods this is often not possible since the texts might not have survived. A 'skewed' corpus, of course, only permits certain research questions. Standards and methods of annotation: For many research questions it is not sufficient to have the 'naked' text. The texts need to be annotated with further information. The texts need (a) header annotation (information about the whole text), (b) positional annotation (annotation for each token), and (c) structural annotation. The Text Encoding Initiative and other groups have developed suggestions for historical texts (the most detailed suggestions pertain to the header annotation). Annotation often cannot be done automatically since older texts are less standardized than newer texts -it is difficult to develop statistical or rule-based methods. It is necessary to discuss possible automation. It is also necessary to develop good annotation tools for manual or semi-automatic annotation. Corpus architecture: Most large modern corpora are stored in some table or tree format. Such architectures might not be the best option for historical corpora since they cannot accommodate conflicting annotation. Therefore one has to think about alternatives like multi-layer models or database models. 1 Henceforth we will speak of corpora even though some of the text collections would not be considered corpora by some scholars.
File Format Metadata (Definitive for Preservation)
International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 2006
The manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. This is most evident in ... more The manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. This is most evident in Science and Engineering, but similar revolutionary trends are becoming apparent across disciplines. Improvements in computing and network technologies, digital data capture techniques, and powerful data mining techniques enable research practices that are highly collaborative, network-based, and data-intensive. These dramatic changes in the nature of scholarly research require corresponding fundamental changes in scholarly communication. The established scholarly communication system has not kept pace with these revolutionary changes in research practice and has not capitalized on the immense capabilities offered by the digital, networked environment. In essence, the current electronic scholarly communication system is a scanned copy of its paper-based predecessor upon which a thin layer of cross-venue interoperability has been overlaid. The time has come to design and deploy the innately digital scholarly communication system that scholars deserve, and that is able to capture the digital scholarly record, make it accessible, and preserve it over time.
06491 Abstracts Collection -- Digital Historical Corpora Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval
Dagstuhl Seminars, 2006
ABSTRACT From 03.12.06 to 08.12.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06491 ``Digital Historical Corpora - Arc... more ABSTRACT From 03.12.06 to 08.12.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06491 ``Digital Historical Corpora - Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available @InProceedings{burnard_et_al:DSP:2007:1056, author = {Lou Burnard and Milena Dobreva and Norbert Fuhr and Anke L{"u}deling}, title = {06491 Abstracts Collection -- Digital Historical Corpora- Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval}, booktitle = {Digital Historical Corpora- Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval}, year = {2007}, editor = {Lou Burnard and Milena Dobreva and Norbert Fuhr and Anke L{"u}deling }, number = {06491}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, publisher = {Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum f{"u}r Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1056}, annote = {Keywords: Historical corpora, digitization, corpus design, corpus architecture, search, retrieval, standardization} }
Digital Historical Corpora - Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval, 03.12. - 08.12.2006
Dagstuhl Seminars, 2007
Library Review, 2012
Information retrieval has been one of the most rapidly developing areas over the last few decades... more Information retrieval has been one of the most rapidly developing areas over the last few decades. Significant and fast-paced advances have taken place to build tools that better serve users as they tackle increasingly large collections of digital resources and the ever-increasing phenomenon of information overload. One domain of particular interest is interactive information behaviour which cuts across user-centred and system-centred approaches to information retrieval. ... How these two approaches can work together is addressed in this collection ...
Blog entry summarising six steps in identifying funding for gold open access publications.
Publishing in the networked world: transforming the nature of communication, Jun 1, 2010
Digital libraries are still being developed independently of the extensive involvement of end use... more Digital libraries are still being developed independently of the extensive involvement of end users, those who form their constituencies of use. The traditional approach to digital library development is to consult with experts or communities of practice in a particular field and attempt to incorporate recommendations into the interface functionality and service models, whilst user needs are often not comprehensively scoped in advance, at the development stage, or regularly consulted for the purposes of formative ...
Pregled Nacionalnog centra za digitalizaciju, 2011
Abstract. Cultural heritage digital libraries have a range of users including professionals;“digi... more Abstract. Cultural heritage digital libraries have a range of users including professionals;“digital natives” as well as general users. Their motivation and needs differ and one of the challenges in evaluating how digital libraries are perceived is to understand the specific points of view of various communities. The identification of stumbling blocks and features which are not satisfying users' expectations is aimed not only to develop a clearer understanding of users and to serve them better but also to sustain a steady user ...
The alignment of user needs with the technical capabilities of modern digital libraries is an are... more The alignment of user needs with the technical capabilities of modern digital libraries is an area attracting the interest of researchers and practitioners. Europeana, conceived with the intention of offering a single access point to European cultural heritage, has been developed in recent years with a continuous effort to identify and respond to the needs of a range of users. This paper presents a study of two user communities – young people and the general public. The study, conducted between October 2009 and January 2010, comprised a series of focus groups and media labs in Bulgaria, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. A distinctive aspect of this study is that it combines questionnaire-based and verbal feedback gathered from users with evidence of user actions whilst undertaking a well-defined task. The paper presents the context and the methodology of the study, and some of the data gathered within the study which helps to understand better the attitude of digital natives towards specialised digital libraries. The data analysis supports several conclusions: specialised digital libraries require strong advocacy to target the “digital natives” generation which tends to prefer general purpose search engines to specialised resources; young users are confident that they know how to use advanced search yet there is little evidence of their applying these skills in contrast to general public users; the perception of digital libraries differs in groups from different countries. The study contributes to the better understanding of some behavioural characteristics of users of digital libraries.
A New Focus on End Users: Eye-Tracking Analysis for Digital Libraries
Eye-tracking data was gathered as part of a user and functional evaluation of the Europeana v1.0 ... more Eye-tracking data was gathered as part of a user and functional evaluation of the Europeana v1.0 prototype, to determine which areas of the interface screen are most heavily used and which areas attract users’ attention but are not effectively used in search. Outputs from eye-tracking data can offer insight into how advanced search functions can be made more intuitive for end users with differing interests and abilities, and can be used to inform continued interface development as digital libraries look to the future. Results led to recommendations for the future development of the Europeana digital library.
User and Functional Testing
Final report, 2010
Table of contents Appendix 1. Focus groups protocol................................................. more Table of contents Appendix 1. Focus groups protocol........................................................................ ............... 2 Appendix 2. Demographic distribution of participants..................................................... ..... 12 Appendix 3. Two focus groups in Sofia ............................. ... ... This version of Europeana study protocols is designed for two purposes: 1) to prepare the moderators to conduct focus groups/media labs on-site; 2) to provide a general understanding on the characteristics and parameters of the study and the identified links to the web survey and the forthcoming user log analysis.
User studies for digital library development
Digital Libraries and Digitised Maps: An Early Overview of the DIGMAP Project
DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised histor... more DIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised historical maps. The main service will reuse metadata from European national libraries and other relevant third party metadata sources to provide discovery and access to contents. This will also include a proof of concept of a scenario of reusing and enriching these metadata by automatic processes that will try to extract relevant indexing information from the images of the digitised maps, as well as from any kind of associated text.
Rev. Nat. Center Digitization, 2006
Abstract. Mass digitization leads to the gathering of large amounts of data and metadata in elect... more Abstract. Mass digitization leads to the gathering of large amounts of data and metadata in electronic form. Commonly, they are used for representation and data harvesting. In information retrieval we have the cases of records, which differ much from the main part of the data. They seem to be quite unusual than one would expect from the rest of the records and from the" knowledge" about the underlying process, which generates the information items. Such records are usually called “outliers”. This information can lead to substantial ...
Automation in Digital Preservation}, 2010
In this paper, we discuss the notion of genre as a basis for addressing the problem of context re... more In this paper, we discuss the notion of genre as a basis for addressing the problem of context representation in digital preservation. We outline several reference points for the notion of genre. This includes a review of diplomatic principles that can support and enhance the power of genre as a key to capture information about context relations. Further, we discuss the impact of open genre models and open topic models in information retrieval and finally present a list of research questions concerning future research in automation of ...
File Format Metadata (Definitive for Preservation
Digital Libraries (DL) are offering access to a vast amount of digital content, relevant to pract... more Digital Libraries (DL) are offering access to a vast amount of digital
content, relevant to practically all domains of human knowledge, which makes it
suitable to enhance teaching and learning. Based on a systematic literature review,
this article provides an overview and a gap analysis of educational use of DLs.
The seminar brought together scholars from (historical) linguistics, (historical) philology, comp... more The seminar brought together scholars from (historical) linguistics, (historical) philology, computational linguistics and computer science who work with collections of historical texts. These texts or digital libraries or corpora 1 are collected for a number of different purposes such as lexicography, history, linguistics, philology etc. This, naturally, leads to different decisions in their design and architecture. However, there are many issues that are common to many projects working with historical texts. These include: Standards and methods of digitization: historical texts have to be digitized from different sources. Sometimes it is necessary to digitize directly from a manuscript or early print. In these cases it is not possible to use current OCR technology, and the texts have to be double keyed (for example according to the standards developed in the Kompetenzzentrum Retrodigitalisierung in Trier). Newer texts can sometimes be scanned and OCRed, although even the relatively 'clean' 19 th century newspaper texts are often problematic. Fraktur and some other scripts (e.g. old Cyrillic scripts) also pose problems for OCR. For some research questions it is possible to work with editions. In these cases the digitization itself is not an issue (if the editions are new). It has to be decided, however, how to deal with a critical apparatus. Design (composition) of corpora: While literary scholars often work on one text (or a small number of related texts), many research questions in linguistics and lexicography require a collection of several texts. Corpus design is, of course, always an issue in corpus construction. Ideally a matrix of the necessary parameters (text type, author, time etc.) is constructed and all 'cells' are filled with the appropriate texts. For older time periods this is often not possible since the texts might not have survived. A 'skewed' corpus, of course, only permits certain research questions. Standards and methods of annotation: For many research questions it is not sufficient to have the 'naked' text. The texts need to be annotated with further information. The texts need (a) header annotation (information about the whole text), (b) positional annotation (annotation for each token), and (c) structural annotation. The Text Encoding Initiative and other groups have developed suggestions for historical texts (the most detailed suggestions pertain to the header annotation). Annotation often cannot be done automatically since older texts are less standardized than newer texts -it is difficult to develop statistical or rule-based methods. It is necessary to discuss possible automation. It is also necessary to develop good annotation tools for manual or semi-automatic annotation. Corpus architecture: Most large modern corpora are stored in some table or tree format. Such architectures might not be the best option for historical corpora since they cannot accommodate conflicting annotation. Therefore one has to think about alternatives like multi-layer models or database models. 1 Henceforth we will speak of corpora even though some of the text collections would not be considered corpora by some scholars.
File Format Metadata (Definitive for Preservation)
International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 2006
The manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. This is most evident in ... more The manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. This is most evident in Science and Engineering, but similar revolutionary trends are becoming apparent across disciplines. Improvements in computing and network technologies, digital data capture techniques, and powerful data mining techniques enable research practices that are highly collaborative, network-based, and data-intensive. These dramatic changes in the nature of scholarly research require corresponding fundamental changes in scholarly communication. The established scholarly communication system has not kept pace with these revolutionary changes in research practice and has not capitalized on the immense capabilities offered by the digital, networked environment. In essence, the current electronic scholarly communication system is a scanned copy of its paper-based predecessor upon which a thin layer of cross-venue interoperability has been overlaid. The time has come to design and deploy the innately digital scholarly communication system that scholars deserve, and that is able to capture the digital scholarly record, make it accessible, and preserve it over time.
06491 Abstracts Collection -- Digital Historical Corpora Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval
Dagstuhl Seminars, 2006
ABSTRACT From 03.12.06 to 08.12.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06491 ``Digital Historical Corpora - Arc... more ABSTRACT From 03.12.06 to 08.12.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06491 ``Digital Historical Corpora - Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available @InProceedings{burnard_et_al:DSP:2007:1056, author = {Lou Burnard and Milena Dobreva and Norbert Fuhr and Anke L{"u}deling}, title = {06491 Abstracts Collection -- Digital Historical Corpora- Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval}, booktitle = {Digital Historical Corpora- Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval}, year = {2007}, editor = {Lou Burnard and Milena Dobreva and Norbert Fuhr and Anke L{"u}deling }, number = {06491}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, publisher = {Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum f{"u}r Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1056}, annote = {Keywords: Historical corpora, digitization, corpus design, corpus architecture, search, retrieval, standardization} }
Digital Historical Corpora - Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval, 03.12. - 08.12.2006
Dagstuhl Seminars, 2007
Library Review, 2012
Information retrieval has been one of the most rapidly developing areas over the last few decades... more Information retrieval has been one of the most rapidly developing areas over the last few decades. Significant and fast-paced advances have taken place to build tools that better serve users as they tackle increasingly large collections of digital resources and the ever-increasing phenomenon of information overload. One domain of particular interest is interactive information behaviour which cuts across user-centred and system-centred approaches to information retrieval. ... How these two approaches can work together is addressed in this collection ...
by Milena P Dobreva, Fernando Loizides, antonella fresa, Jadranka Stojanovski, Александър Димчев, Owen Sacco, Harri Heikkilä, Pekka Olsbo, Martin Caroline, Jane Smith, Borst Timo, Kathleen Shearer, and Dominic C Tate
Research and scholarly communication is increasingly seen in the light of open science, making re... more Research and scholarly communication is increasingly seen in the light of open science, making research processes and results more accessible and collaborative. This brings with it the chance to better connect research and society by introducing new avenues for engagement with citizens.
This book presents the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub), held in Valetta, Malta, in September 2015. This year’s conference explores the interplay of two dimensions of electronic publishing – the ever growing volume of digital collections and the improved understanding of the widest user group, citizens. This exciting theme encompasses human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, policy-related, commercial, and other relevant aspects.
Echoing the conference agenda, the book covers a wide range of topics, including engagement with citizens and professionals, enhanced publishing and new paradigms, discovery and digital libraries, open access and open science, as well as the use and reuse of data. Addressing the most recent developments in these areas, the book will be of interest to practitioners, researchers and students in information science, as well as users of electronic publishing.
The main theme of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) is the openn... more The main theme of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) is the openness and use of research data as well as new and innovative publishing
paradigms. Specifically, it aimed to bring together presentations and discussions that demonstrate the role of cultural heritage and service organizations in the creation, accessibility, curation and long term preservation of data. We aimed to provide a forum for discussing appraisal, citation and licensing of research data. Also, what is new with reviewing, publishing and editorial technology in a data-centric setting?
ELPUB brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss data mining, digital publishing and social networks along with their implications for scholarly communication,
information services, e-learning, e-businesses, the cultural heritage sector, and other areas where electronic publishing is imperative.
ELPUB 2014 received 32 paper submissions. The peer review process resulted in the acceptance of 13 research papers and 9 posters. These papers were grouped into sessions based on the following topics: Open Access and Open Data; Know the Users
Better: Researchers and Their Needs; Specialized Content for Researchers; Publishing and Access; Practical Aspects of Electronic Publishing.
The conference held 2 pre-conference workshops and one tutorial on June 18. Andreas Rauber and Kresimir Duretec (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) led the
tutorial “Digital Preservation Lifecycle: from challenges to solutions”. Pierre Mounier (EHESS/OpenEdition, France) and Victoria Tsoukala (National Documentation Centre,
Greece) led the workshop “Non-profit Open Access ventures of significant scope in Europe” and Carla Basili (Sapienza University in Rome, Italy) led the workshop “Information
Literacy in the context of scientific information”.
The main program on June 19–20 features two keynotes. Herbert van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) will deliver a keynote entitled “Towards Robust
Linking and Referencing for Web-Based Scholarly Communication”. Mahendra Mahey (British Library Labs, UK) will deliver a keynote entitled “How the British Library’s
Digital Scholarship department is putting data to use for researchers through its Digital research Team and British Library Labs project”.
This is the third Technology Watch Report (TWR3). It continues DigiCULT’s work in providing herit... more This is the third Technology Watch Report (TWR3). It continues DigiCULT’s work in providing heritage institutions with researched assessments of current and emerging information technologies that they can use in their efforts to expose,manage better, and make more accessible the wealth of our cultural heritage. The DigiCULT technology assessments identify developments that can be deployed without further work, those that would require further development or repurposing and those that are still some way away from having deployable implications but
which show promise. The cultural heritage sector suffers from a lack of access to accurate, accessible, and relevant information about technological developments.We continue to use the word ‘ technology’ in its broadest sense to cover methods (e. g. information retrieval, visualisation) and procedures, standards, hardware (e. g. RFID), and software applications.