Browsing by Author "McKay, Dana"
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Finding new music: a diary study of everyday encounters with novel songs
(Austrian Computer Society, 2007)This paper explores how we, as individuals, purposefully or serendipitously encounter 'new music' (that is, music that we haven’t heard before) and relates these behaviours to music information retrieval activities such ... -
How to take a book off the shelf: Learning about ebooks from using a physical library
(CHISIG, 2011)Little is known about how people select ebooks or books. This paper reports initial results of a study in which we observe patrons of two libraries when selecting books. From the results of the study we aim to gain insights ... -
Judging a book by its cover: interface elements that affect reader selection of ebooks
(ACM, 2012)Digital library research has demonstrated the impact of content presentation on both search and reading behaviours. In this paper, we scrutinise the influence of ebook presentation on user behaviour, focussing on document ... -
A lightweight metadata quality tool
(ACM, 2008)We describe a Web-based metadata quality tool that provides statistical descriptions and visualisations of Dublin Core metadata harvested via the OAI protocol. The lightweight nature of development allows it to be used to ... -
Metadata tools for institutional repositories
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2008-08)Current institutional repository software provides few tools to help metadata librarians understand and analyse their collections. In this paper we compare and contrast metadata analysis tools that were developed simultaneously, ...
