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Item Acknowledging the Personal Among Digital Library Users and Reuses(2016-06-15) Reilly, Michele; Thompson, SantiTechnology has allowed libraries to expand access to their rare and unique special collections content for over twenty years. Since that time, librarians have also tried to evaluate the value of these efforts. Librarians have primarily focused their assessments on the usability of digital library platforms. In more recent years, others have also attempted to address how these materials were being used and reused -- a concept that is also known as “ultimate use.” Building on this previous studies, the researchers developed a project that utilized reverse image lookup (RIL) tools to better understand who uses digital library materials and for what purposes.Item Embedded Metadata Patterns Across Web Sharing Environments(2018-01) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, MicheleThis research project tried to determine how or if embedded metadata followed the digital object as it was shared on social media platforms by: using EXIFTool, a variety of social media platforms and user profiles, the embedded metadata extracted from selected New York Public Library (NYPL) and Europeana images, PDFs from open access science journals, and captured mobile phone images. The goal of the project was to clarify which embedded metadata fields, if any, migrated with the object as it was shared across social media.Item “Everyone’s a Curator”: Identifying the Everyday Curator(2019) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, MicheleThe process of curating objects to construct cultural narratives and to tell stories has traditionally been reserved for credentialed professionals in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. However, the rise of the World Wide Web and, with it, the online access to digitized cultural heritage images and objects, has seen the increase of curatorial activities among other groups, including everyday users of digitized materials. This article focuses on identifying and categorizing the characteristics of those who are engaged in this everyday curation process. Using an existing Pinterest dataset, the researchers developed a rubric for understanding these “everyday curators.” After defining curation, this article outlines the methodology used to devise and classify the everyday curator rubric, shares the results of applying this rubric to the Pinterest dataset, and discusses several implications for cultural heritage professionals.Item Finding Roots, Gems, and Inspiration: Understanding the Ultimate Uses of Digital Materials(2014-04-10) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, MicheleThe University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL) is the point of virtual access for digitized cultural, historical and research materials for the university’s libraries. UHDL developed a "digital cart” system (DCS) that allow users to download high resolution images from its collections. The DCS records important information supplied by the user regarding the intended use of the downloaded images. Until now, no analysis of the transaction log for the DCS has been completed. This lightning talk will outline how researchers analyzed the transaction logs and coded portions of the data from it. They will present on the interesting and innovative uses by patrons. This research is significant because little is known about how users are making use of the materials beyond their visit to UHDL.Item Finding Roots, Gems, and Inspiration: Understanding Ultimate Use of Digital Materials(2014-03-14) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, MicheleThe University of Houston Digital Library (UHDL) is the point of virtual access for digitized cultural, historical and research materials for the university’s libraries. UHDL developed a "digital cart” system (DCS) that allow users to download high resolution images from its collections. The DCS records important information supplied by the user regarding the ultimate use of the downloaded images. Until now, no formal analysis of the transaction log for the DCS has been completed. This research is significant because little is known about the ultimate use of digital library materials. Current literature suggests that this problem is not uncommon among digital libraries around the world. Our analysis begins to fill a critical gap in the professional conversation on digital libraries by directly contributing to the small body of literature that is asking who uses digital libraries and for what purposes. This presentation will outline how researchers analyzed data from portions of the transaction logs from the DCS from 2010 to 2013. From this analysis, they will highlight some of the interesting and innovative ultimate uses by patrons. The researchers will discuss the study and offer audience members approaches for analyzing data to determine ultimate use and its ramifications inside and outside of the classroom.Item Get Ready, Get Set, Curate: Understanding the ‘Everyday Curator’(2018) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, MicheleThe proliferation of the world wide web and, with it, ways to communicate and share experiences virtually through social media sites, has changed the ways that people interact with online cultural heritage images. As the accessibility of the web increases over time, an individual’s potential ability to “curate” occurs from nearly anywhere - making it easier for everyday people to engage in the curation process. These amateaur curatorial practices may include how users transform digital objects as a means of self-expression, political, social, and personal commentary, cultural products, and artistic license. Recognizing how everyday users curate digital images enhances the digital humanists’ understanding of the contemporary cultural landscape. While conducting multiple research studies on the reuse of digital images over the web, researchers Michele Reilly and Santi Thompson found that social media users were collecting, organizing, and sharing images in a manner that was not unlike the tasks performed by archivists, librarians, and other cultural heritage professionals -- that there was something else occurring beyond ‘reuse’. This paper focuses on understanding the characteristics of those who are engaged in this everyday curation process. Using an existing Pinterest dataset, the researchers developed a rubric for understanding these “everyday curators.” This paper will: define curators; review the methodology used to devise and classify the everyday curator rubric; discuss the results of applying this rubric to the Pinterest dataset; and conclude with implications for digital humanists and cultural heritage professionals.Item Literature Review Template(2020-12) Williamson, Katherine; Reilly, Michele; Thompson, SantiThis literature review template was developed by Katherine Williamson, Michele Reilly, and Santi Thompson in December 2020. It is intended to be discipline-agnostic but has been primarily used for research in Library and Information Science domains. Other researchers are free to use/repurpose this template. The authors are making this template available via an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This literature review template has been updated. The authors encourage researchers to use the “Structured Narrative Literature Review Template” found here: https://hdl.handle.net/10657/15001.Item Moving Beyond "If We Build It They Will Come": The Invisible User in Digital Library Development(2014-09-11) Beaudoin, Joan; Matusiak, Krystyna; Reilly, Michele; Thompson, SantiDigital libraries have been studied for over two decades yet there is limited research on the actual use of digital library objects in information practices. The preponderance of research that has been done has focused on search, retrieval and information seeking behaviors. This panel’s contribution is that it describes the use of digital content retrieved from digital libraries. The panelists will discuss three empirical studies which examine the use of digital library resources in different settings. Furthermore, the panelists will discuss the implication of use data on digital library development and management.Item The “Pros” and “Cons” of Reverse Image Lookup as an Assessment Tool for Digitized Cultural Heritage Images(2017-06-29) Thompson, Santi; Reilly, MicheleThis presentation introduces and builds upon the application of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and reverse image lookup (RIL), a graduated form of CBIR, as a potential assessment tool for cultural heritage repository managers. The presenters will focus their conversation around five topics: (1) CBIR and RIL definitions and history; (2) RIL case studies; (3) methods and results of presenters’ RIL study; (4) RIL benefits and limitations; and (5) implications of RIL on digital repository assessment. The presentation concludes by proposing that RIL offers benefits for cultural heritage repository managers in the assessment of users and the reuses of their collections. Audience members will gain insight into how the software can be used as another viable option in their assessment toolkit.Item Reverse Image Lookup: Assessing Digital Library Users and Reuses(2016-10-03) Reilly, Michele; Thompson, SantiReverse image lookup technology was used to assess the users and reuses of images from the Library of Congress’Teaching with Primary Resources digital collection. After selecting 44 images for the study, researchers used Google Reverse Image Lookup to generate a dataset of over 1,400 URLs. Drawing upon a coding rubric designed for a previous study on the ultimate uses of digital library materials, researchers coded the data to identify who uses these images and for what purposes. They found that the most popular type of user was “personal," which aligns with previous work and indicates that a pattern is emerging between ultimate use and the personal user type. Additionally, the study’s results indicate that social media and popular culture research outnumbered any other type of reuse. This article introduces reverse image lookup as a viable and approachable tool for digital library assessment, and discusses its implications for assessment and content selection. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in The Journal of Web Librarianship on October 3, 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19322909.2016.1223573.Item Structured Narrative Literature Review Template(2022-11) Williamson, Katherine; Reilly, Michele; Thompson, SantiThe “Structured Narrative Literature Review Template” was developed by Katherine Williamson, Michele Reilly, and Santi Thompson in November 2022. It is intended to be discipline-agnostic but has been primarily used for research in Library and Information Science domains. Other researchers are free to use/repurpose this template. The authors are making this template available via an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This template replaces a previous version, titled “Literature Review Template”, found here: https://hdl.handle.net/10657/12663.