Results and resources

User Orientation

EuropeanaConnect takes up the users' attitudes and needs and opens new ways of discovering cultural heritage in Europeana.

Personas

Personas are descriptions of archetypal users. Personas are typically created by combining statistical information, knowledge of users, use patterns, tasks, habits, etc. So personas are done in a specific context, for at specific purpose and with regional characteristics. This dependency of context makes it a special challenge to create personas that can be used across the European countries.

• Personas Catalogue
• Personas Catalogue version 3 - An Update

Relevant presentations

• The Europeana Personas
  Gitte Petersen,The Royal Library, Denmark
  EuropeanaConnect All-Staff Meeting, Berlin, 10-12 May 2010

Methods for Conducting User Tests

Methods for user tests have been identified and selected with the aim of providing Europeana project partners with a whole palette of methods to do usability testing during the development process of new or further developed web-based products.

• Recommendations for conducting user tests (February 2011)

Log file analysis

The EuropeanaConnect log file analysis is an evaluation of Europeana users, usage and information seeking behaviour derived from web-server log-files.

Log file analysis of Europeana Prototype

• Publishable report on best practice and how users are using the Europeana service (October 2011)
• Culture on the Go (October 2011)

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