Eric Meyer and Kathryn Eccles presenting to the Digital Humanties at Oxford Summer School.

1. Impact as a process: considering the reach of resources from the start Eric T. Meyer & Kathryn Eccles Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Digital Humanities@Oxford Summer School 29th July 2011 @etmeyer #tidsr #oess #dhox

3. Reaching new audiences

4. Attracting users

5. Attracting new usage

6. Enabling new research questions

8. Digitisation and Impact

9. Measuring usage and impact What to measure? Users Types of use Awareness Citation practices Marketing strategies Embedding

10. JISC funded project July 2008-April 2009 Looked at five specific JISC-funded resources Designed to test the TIDSR methods and review them for the TIDSR toolkit TIDSR: The first usage and impact study

12. User feedback

13. Referrer analysis

15. Survey: Low Awareness

16. Survey: High Importance to Users

17. Log Files: Non UK Activity

18. Log File Analysis Top Search Phrases: Histpop

19. Histpop: User Communities Perception: Specific niche community Well known by target audience Transforming access and usage patterns User surveys: Embedded in educational resources Enhanced access to primary sources ‘Histpop made it possible to do a completely different project’ Continuing education, online resources, non-traditional learners

20. Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

21. Project 2 – British Library 19th Century Newspapers

22. Citation Habits Have you ever published a piece based on your work in this collection? If so, how did you cite the collection?

24. 19th Century British Library Newspapers registers strong links for a project page

26. Project 3 – British Library Archival Sound Recordings

27. Interviews, Group Interviews, Focus Groups Time intensive, but productive if you are careful about what you ask! Different stakeholders: Project team: Positive view of the work only Broader stakeholders: While the digital project was good, it also introduced tensions in the broader setting of the library New kinds of serendipity, wide range of users

28. News Engagement officer

29. Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

30. Project 4 – British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS): 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834

32. Webometrics can capture comparative awareness

34. Project 5 – Wellcome Medical Journals: the backfiles project

35. Webometrics Wellcome Medical Journals Backfiles project page records strong links, links to Pub Med for WMJB material impossible to trace

36. Knowing the Users Historians? (would be looking at older articles) Not typical PubMed users Search interface issues / limited search Clinicians? (would be looking at newer articles) Not typically reading 100 year old articles Other users? Paths of discovery?

37. New uses? Majority of downloads targeted more recent material – opening up of new resources to clinicians More thorough and comprehensive searches Historians reported more comprehensive search results (quantitative results) Also reported increased browsing, greater serendipity, due to time saved finding articles

38. Awareness of Resource by Country

39. How did you find this resource?

40. http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/

42. University of Oxford Podcasts

43. Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online

44. British History Online

46. Siobhan Davies RePlay

47. http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies Bulger, M., Meyer, E.T., de la Flor, G., Terras, M., Wyatt, S., Jirotka, M., Eccles, K., Madsen, C.

48. The Case Studies

49. Browsing and Searching Libraries Journals Peers

50. Reconfiguring Resources

51. “ Old Bailey Online hasn’t replaced anything for me or displaced anything for me, but it is part of this general transformation of how I do what I do.

52. “ The amount of time I now spend doing the very mechanical, laborious, time-consuming work is much smaller.You can now do things in 5 seconds which it took you 3 months to do a few years ago.

53. Transformations in Use

54. “ It’s a huge change. You can do things much more quickly, read much more widely, find connections…it’s very, very important.

55. “ With something like the Burney Collection, 5 years ago for writing an article I would need to review the newspapers, I would have gone into the British Library and done it on microfilm. 20 years ago, I would have gone into the British Library and done it with the actual paper in front of me.Now I sit at home and I do a keyword search.

56. “ Asking new questions?

57. “ I’m not sure all of this raises the quality of anybody’s work.I think it would be quite daft to pretend that all of this makes us better scholars, or makes our books or papers of higher quality. I don’t know if that is true by any means, but it certainly makes it easier and I suppose makes the quantity of stuff that you can produce greater.

58. “ What might take you several months if not years of research, you could do in hours, days, a week. So I think that means that it makes the nature of your research different because it allows you quantitative information much more quickly, which then allows you to maybe think about how you might use that information differently,because you’ve got so much more time.

59. Eric T. Meyer eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.ukhttp://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120 Kathryn Eccles kathryn.eccles@oii.ox.ac.ukhttp://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=138 Oxford e-Social Science Project Project work funded by: