SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach · 109
DUKE UNIVERSITY
TRLN. Content, Context, and Capacity. Evaluation
http://www2.trln.org/ccc/evaluation.htm
Triangle Research Libraries Network: Content, Context, and Capacity: Evaluation
http://www2.trln.org/ccc/evaluation.htm[8/19/14 3:14:24 PM]
Transportation of materials
Transportation time will be tracked by the Digital Production Manager, who is responsible for all materials transport during the grant. Data to be tracked
for each material transport includes:
Date
Time driving (in minutes)
Time other (loading/unloading/moving (in minutes))
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Qualitative assessment
In years two and three of the grant, the Evaluation Working Group will plan and conduct qualitative assessments of the project. Qualitative assessment
plans were developed broadly in the second half of year one. Instead of testing delivery interfaces, the group will focus on analyzing the user
experience as defined by large-scale digitization at TRLN. Delivery interfaces may be tangentially tested through this process, but are not the focus of
our assessment work.
Faculty and History Scholars
One on one interviews will be held with some scholars and faculty. The target population will be people who have used highly curated digital content
before, such as Documenting the American South. In this way, we will be able to ask interviewees to compare the highly curated versus large-scale
aspect.
Undergraduate Students
Three members of the CCC steering committee are teaching undergraduate courses in fall 2012 that can serve as testbeds for project evaluation.
These three courses include one taught at NCSU, one taught at UNC, and one jointly taught between NCCU and Duke. The group hopes to conduct at
least one project evaluation activity in each of the three courses. These activities may include a task that requires them to find interesting documents
within one of the delivery interfaces and write a brief reaction paper evaluating the search and discovery experience, or a website evaluation exercise.
K-12 Educators
Evaluation of K-12 educators perspectives of TRLN's approach to online digital delivery (i.e., no additional metadata other than that which exists in the
finding aid is applied to each digital image, and materials are discoverable through the context of the finding aid and not through specialized web
portals with advanced searching capabilities) will be two part. In summer 2012, focus groups and one-on-one interviews were held with some local K-
12 educators. In addition, an online survey of approximately 2,000 North Carolina teachers of social sciences in middle and high schools will be
conducted in August 2012.
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Online Usage
Google Analytics will be used to track all usage statistics for the grant. It was decided that Google Analytics would be set up on each institutions'
finding aids as well as digital objects where applicable.
Baseline use metrics that we will track at each institution and report in aggregate for the entire grant include:
Collection guide views
Clicks on linked folder titles from collection guides
Clicks on links to "all digital content for this collection" from collection guides
Traffic referrals
Unique page views for scans (this data is available by collection for all institutions except NCSU)
Use stats are collected from Google Analytics accounts at the various libraries by the Project Librarian twice a year for aggregation and reporting.
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