Fourth DELOS Workshop
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PROGRAMME

 

Thursday, 6 June

9-9:15 Workshop opening: László Kovács, Ingeborg Sølvberg, Christine Borgman
9:15-10:45 Setting the Background on DL Evaluation:  Reports from working groups (Chair: Ingeborg T. Sølvberg)
9:15-9:35 LONG: Ronald Larsen. The Dlib Test Suite and Metrics working group: Harvesting the experience from the Digital Library Initiative.
9:35-9:55 LONG: Michael Mabe. DELOS Evaluation Classification Scheme: Publisher's perspective.
9:55-10:15 LONG:  Noriko Kando, Japan, Japanese working group on DL evaluation.
10:15-10:45 discussion
10:45-11:15 coffee
11:15-12:15 Users and User Interfaces (Chair: Preben Hansen)
11:15-11:35 LONG: Narayanan Meyyappan & Schubert Foo. Evaluation of task based digital work environment.
11:35-11:45 SHORT: James Ford et.al. Evaluation metrics for user-centred ranking of content in MetaDLs.
11:45-11:55 SHORT: Michalis Sfakakis, Sarantos Kapidakis. Evaluating user behavior on data collections in a Digilal Library.
11:55-12:15 discussion
12:15-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-3:15 Evaluation in Context (Chair: András Micsik)
1:30-1:50 LONG:  Nick Belkin. A Framework for criteria and measures for evaluation of user interfaces in digital libraries.
1:50-2:10 LONG: Ann Bishop and Bertram Bruce. Digital Library evaluation as participative inquiry.
2:10-2:30 LONG: Christine Borgman, Can Digital Libraries Improve Undergraduate Education? A Case Study of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT)
2:30-2:50 SHORT: Evans, O’Dwyer, Schneider I. Usability evaluation in the context of digital archives.
2:50-3:15 discussion
3:15-3:45 coffee
3:45-5:30 breakout groups

Friday, 7 June

9-10:45 Metrics and Testbeds (Chair: Javed Mostafa)
9-9:20 LONG:   Carol Peters. "Creating a Multilingual Test-Bed for Cross-Language  System Evaluation
9:20-9:50 LONG. Norbert Fuhr. Evaluating efficiency vs. effectiveness for vague queries and similarity search in digital libraries.
9:50-10 SHORT: Robert Sandusky. Digital Library attributes: Framing research and results.
10-10:10 SHORT: Christian Mönch. On the assessment of scalability of digital libraries.
10:10-10:45 discussion
10:45-11:15 coffee
11:15-12:30 Evaluation of DL services and scalability (Chair: Christine Borgman)
11:15-11:35 LONG: Fabio Abbattista et.al. Virtual agents for a bookstore: an empirical evaluation.
11:35-11:55 LONG: Griffiths, Fisher. A quality management approach to the evaluation of digital library services.
11:55-12:05 SHORT: Linda Banwell. TEL: The European Library.
12:05-12:30 discussion
12:30-1:45 lunch
1:45-3:30 breakout groups
3:30-4 coffee
4-5:30 Reports from breakout groups, conference wrap-up, next steps

 
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