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Functional Requirements for Online Tools to Support Community-Led Collections Building

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002)

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The Digital Water Education Library collection (DWEL) is being generated by primary and secondary school teachers in the United States. This complex process involves both individual research and team design, and the use of a variety of online tools, such as an online cataloguing tool. Interactions amongst DWEL members are being ethnographically analysed in order to identify requirements for further development of these tools. The analysis suggests that many DWEL members envision their work as occurring in an integrated environment with stable documents, a situation which is not supported by the current configuration of DWEL tools. The design implications of these findings are reviewed.

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  1. Department of Communication UCB 270, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA

    Michael Khoo

  2. Department of Computer Science UCB 470, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA

    Tamara Sumner

  3. DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) Program Center, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, 80307-3000, Boulder, CO, USA

    Holly Devaul

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’ Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Costantino Thanos

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Khoo, M., Devaul, H., Sumner, T. (2002). Functional Requirements for Online Tools to Support Community-Led Collections Building. In: Agosti, M., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45747-X_14

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