Measuring the Impact of Digital Collections
Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit
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https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v44i4.17404Keywords:
digital collections, Research data, assessment, Digital repositoryAbstract
Assessing content use and reuse is a considerable challenge for gallery, library, archives, museum, and repository (GLAMR) digital library practitioners. While a number of digital object content use studies focus on quantitative approaches to assessment, including digital object downloads, views, and visits, little research has investigated the ways in which digital repository materials are utilized and repurposed. The Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit, or D-CRAFT, addresses some of these gaps by providing assessment methods, ethical considerations and guidelines, tutorials, and "how to" templates to assist practitioners in understanding how digital objects are used and reused by various audiences. The toolkit enhances and advances the typical digital library use assessment approaches. As such, this paper argues that D-CRAFT can play a critical role in assisting GLAMR digital library practitioners in reuse assessment data collection.
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