A User Study of the Singapore Memory Portal to Derive a Taxonomy for Content Organization

dc.contributor.authorSrieedar, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKhoo, Christopher S.G.en_US
dc.contributor.editor-en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-27T14:57:46Z
dc.date.available2015-04-27T14:57:46Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractMany memory institutions have set up online portals to provide public access to their heritage collections. However, little is known about how such portal interfaces should be designed and how the content should be organized to support user se arching, browsing and learning. Many online cultural heritage portals adopt an organization scheme that is either content-oriented or institution-oriented rather than one that is user-oriented. This paper reports an initial user study of a cultural heritage portal called Singapore Memory Portal that was set up in Singapore to collect people's memories related to the history, culture, society, life and landscape of Singapore's past. The study sought to find out users' expectations of the content of the portal, how they search and browse the portal, and what they learn about particular historical or cultural topics from reading postings in the portal. The goal is to derive a taxonomy to organize the portals' content for browsing and learning. For this initial study, 12 Singapore citizens were interviewed, and asked to perform two search tasks on the portal and describe what they had learnt from the memory postings.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersTrack 2, Full Papersen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationDigital Heritage International Congressen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743753en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743753en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1109/DigitalHeritage
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subject{Cultural differencesen_US
dc.subjectEducational institutionsen_US
dc.subjectEuropeen_US
dc.subjectLibrariesen_US
dc.subjectOrganizationsen_US
dc.subjectPortalsen_US
dc.subjectTaxonomyen_US
dc.subjectBrowsingen_US
dc.subjectContent organizationen_US
dc.subjectCultural heritage portalen_US
dc.subjectSearchingen_US
dc.subjectTaxonomyen_US
dc.subjectUser study}en_US
dc.titleA User Study of the Singapore Memory Portal to Derive a Taxonomy for Content Organizationen_US
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