Introducing the D-CRAFT Assessment Toolkit
The Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group (DLF AIG), Content Reuse Working Group is excited to release D-CRAFT, the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit. If you work with digital collections at galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or repositories and want to measure the impact of your collections, this toolkit is for you! The result of Read More
Introducing D-CRAFT: webinar recording now available
D-CRAFT is a new toolkit that can help digital library practitioners assess reuse of digital objects in their collections. It includes assessment tools, methods, recommended practices, explanatory videos, and tutorials that can help you streamline the reuse assessment process and make it more efficient. On June 5, 2023 members of the D-CRAFT team held a Read More
Now Available: Setting a Foundation for Assessing Content Reuse White Paper
The project team is now happy to release Setting a Foundation for Assessing Content Reuse: A White Paper From the Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects project. This white paper (a) provides a broad overview of the Measuring Reuse project, including background information on the AIG, (b) outlines the methods used by Read More
Call for Follow-Up Survey Participation
The release of this follow-up survey is the Measuring Reuse team’s final step in our needs gathering process. The survey consists of 14 questions. It asks participants to prioritize a set of use cases (generated from previously held focus group sessions) to identify the most useful functions of a digital library reuse assessment toolkit. If Read More
Analytics, Altmetrics, and Reuse Twitter Chat — April 25
Members of the the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group’s (DLF AIG) Working Group on Reuse and the Library Information Technology Association (LITA) Altmetrics and Digital Analytics Interest Group are excited to announce the upcoming “Analytics, Altmetrics, and Reuse Twitter Chat” on Wednesday, April 25 from 2:00 p.m EST to approximately 3:00 p.m. EST. The Read More
Behind the Scenes: What it takes to make us stage ready
By Caroline Muglia When this rag tag group of librarians and archivists embarked on a project that would evolve into an IMLS grant-funded endeavor, we knew at least one thing: we’d be learning a lot throughout this year-long process. Early on, we embraced an iterative approach to our conversations, brainstorming sessions as well as deliverables Read More
Upcoming Activities: February 2018
Happy New Year! The project team is hitting the ground running in 2018 as we prepare for several upcoming data collection sessions and conference presentations. Metadata Interest Group – ALA Midwinter Meeting 2018: Ayla Stein will be presenting on behalf of the project team at ALA Midwinter 2018. The presentation is included as part of Read More
Digital Libraries or Digital Objects: Measuring the Impact and Value of Use and Reuse
This invited blog post was contributed by Ali Shiri, Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. The emergence of large scale digital libraries and repositories such as HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, the Open Library, the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana and the World Digital Library, provide new opportunities for Read More
Let the (early) data analysis begin!
The project team is fresh off its first successful presentation at the 2017 DLF Forum in Pittsburgh. Genya O’Gara formally introduced our team and project during a session of the DLF Assessment Interest Group’s yearly accomplishments. Following the forum the project team convened our first in-person focus group. Eight individuals kindly shared their thoughts and Read More
Call for Survey Participation
Our first step in our needs gathering process is to release a survey that seeks to identify how cultural heritage organizations currently assess digital library reuse, any barriers to assessing reuse of digital objects, and to begin pulling community priorities for potential solutions and next steps together. If you are a cultural heritage or research Read More
