Paper Info
Title
Defining user requirements for holocaust research infrastructures and services in the EHRI project
Abstract
The poster presents the background, conceptual framework, methodology and initial results of a mixed research project, investigating information practice and user requirements of historians, humanities scholars and social scientists working on the Holocaust. The results of the study will be a foundation for the specification of functionalities of the European digital infrastructure planned as part of the EU-funded European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project, and consisting of the EHRI search/portal and the EHRI Virtual Research Environment. Particular issues to be dealt with are the summarization of qualitative evidence from semi-open interviews by means of a conceptualization of relevant descriptive codes of research activities, resource types and tools/services; identification of specific user requirements and of different researcher profiles through statistical analysis of an online questionnaire defined on the basis of initial qualitative research; and, identification and theorization of special needs of Holocaust research, seen as a highly multi- and inter-disciplinary field of inquiry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2132176.2132322
iConference 2011
Keywords
Field
DocType
research activity,ehri project,initial result,user requirement,holocaust research infrastructure,initial qualitative research,infrastructure project,european digital infrastructure,mixed research project,ehri virtual research environment,eu-funded european holocaust research,holocaust research,ehri search,virtual learning environment,conceptual framework,statistical analysis,qualitative research,user requirements
Holocaust studies,Special needs,Computer science,Conceptualization,Knowledge management,Computer-assisted web interviewing,Qualitative research,Conceptual framework,User requirements document,Virtual research environment
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Agiatis Benardou1123.22
Costis Dallas281.73