Following his talk on Thursday 24 November, Professor Eric Meyer will also lead a workshop while he is at UC:
Metrics and Measurement: The Impacts of Digital Resources and Collections
Friday 25 November, 9am-12pm, Macmillan Brown PS 208
This workshop will present a framework and best practices for measuring usage and impact of digitised scholarly resources. The workshop will cover quantitative and qualitative methods outlined in the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources and how organisations can apply these to their own collections and projects. Participants will learn from case studies and work through participant-provided examples to gain a better understanding of:
- Web presence, what it means, and how it can be measured with analytics;
- Social media data, and how one can get it and use it for understanding impacts both quantitatively and qualitatively;
- Scientometric data, and how one can interpret it;
- Interviewing and surveying users.
Morning tea will be provided. Please RSVP by Monday 21 October to christopher.thomson@canterbury.ac.nz for catering purposes
To get the most out of the workshop, participants will need to bring a laptop that can connect to the Internet.
Eric Meyer is Professor of Social Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, a multidisciplinary department at the University of Oxford which undertakes teaching and research focused on understanding life online. Eric’s work focuses on shifts in work, knowledge creation, and human interactions when digital technologies replace previously non-digital counterparts. His research in this area has included studies of the impacts of digital collections in libraries and museums, digital practices in the arts, the use of digital images in biology, and digital information practices in the sciences and humanities.