Dear all,
HEIRNET is pleased to announce the publication of 'Users and their Use
of HEIRs' a report by the Cultural Heritage Consortium. This interesting
and informative report was commissioned by HEIRNET to provide an initial
evaluation of the uses of historic environment information resources.
In recent years many who are involved in managing HEIRs have identified
a requirement to develop understanding of users and their needs. This
has prompted the collection of quantitative and qualitative data about
the uses of individual HEIRs - through web-site user logs, via on-line
and off-line questionnaire surveys, through focus groups and direct
discussion with users. A number of important national initiatives have
also been explored the users of museums, archives and public oppinion
about the historic environment in general.
In 'Users and their Use of HEIRs', the Cultural Heritage Consortium
provides a review of based on existing research which identifies
common messages, key trends and issues that are of importance to
HEIRs. The report identifies examples of current good practices in the
collection of user statistics and goes on to make recommendations for
developing the sector's understanding of users, and non-users, in
future.
'Users and their Use of HEIRs' is available online at:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/HEIRNET/publications.html
with apologies for cross posting,
Kate Fernie
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Kate Fernie
Project Officer
Archaeology Data Service: The Dept of Archaeology,
University of York, The Kings' Manor, York, YO1 7EP, UK
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