Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:57:54 +0100
Reply-To: "MacLeod, Roderick A" <R.A.MacLeod@HW.AC.UK>
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From: "MacLeod, Roderick A" <R.A.MacLeod@HW.AC.UK>
Subject: User feedback results on subject-based cross-repository
resource discovery service from PerX
One of the PerX (Pilot Engineering Repository X-search) project aims
is to asses the potential usefulness of a subject-based
cross-repository resource discovery service for engineering. To do
this, PerX developed a Pilot search tool and then used it as a
testbed to ascertain from a selection of academic end-users their
opinions on the appropriateness of the subject-based approach and
the effectiveness of the search tool.
Some initial feedback results from the first batch of testing are
now available from:
<http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/userfeedback.htm>http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/userfeedback.htm
This includes a report analysing Web Questionnaire Results, and a
report from a Focus Group.
Both reports should be of interest to anyone interested in resource
discovery services, digital repositories, etc., and not just those
in engineering.
The PerX home page is:
<http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/>http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/
The Pilot is available from:
<http://www.engineering.ac.uk/>http://www.engineering.ac.uk/
A news feed is available:
<http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/news/perx.rss>http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/news/perx.rss
Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP
Senior Subject Librarian
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164
<mailto:R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk>R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk
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