TY - GEN
T1 - On the interplay between search behavior and collections in digital libraries and archives
AU - Bogaard, Tessel
AU - Hardman, Lynda
AU - Hollink, Laura
AU - van Ossenbruggen, Jacco
AU - Wielemaker, Jan
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Log analysis is an unobtrusive technique used to better understand search behavior and evaluate search systems. However, in contrast with open web search, in a vertical search system such as a digital library or media archive the collection is known and central to its purpose. This drives different, more collection-oriented questions when studying the logs. For example, whether users need different support in different parts of the collection. In a digital library, the collection is categorized using professionally curated metadata. We conjecture that using this metadata can improve and extend the methods and techniques for log analysis. We investigate how to identify different types of search behavior using the metadata explicitly, how to explain and predict user interactions for the different types of behavior found, and finally how to communicate our research results to domain experts.
AB - Log analysis is an unobtrusive technique used to better understand search behavior and evaluate search systems. However, in contrast with open web search, in a vertical search system such as a digital library or media archive the collection is known and central to its purpose. This drives different, more collection-oriented questions when studying the logs. For example, whether users need different support in different parts of the collection. In a digital library, the collection is categorized using professionally curated metadata. We conjecture that using this metadata can improve and extend the methods and techniques for log analysis. We investigate how to identify different types of search behavior using the metadata explicitly, how to explain and predict user interactions for the different types of behavior found, and finally how to communicate our research results to domain experts.
KW - Faceted search
KW - Log analysis
KW - Metadata
KW - Search behavior
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U2 - 10.1145/3176349.3176350
DO - 10.1145/3176349.3176350
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052026133
T3 - CHIIR 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
SP - 339
EP - 341
BT - CHIIR 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 3rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2018
Y2 - 11 March 2018 through 15 March 2018
ER -