DELIVERABLE Project Acronym: Europeana Cloud Grant Agreement number: Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.3 User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report. Content Strategy Report. Project Title: Europeana Cloud: Unlocking Europe’s Research via The Cloud Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.3 User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report. Content Strategy Report. [Joint Deliverables 1.3 and 1.6: User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report (1.3) and Content Strategy Report (1.6)] Revision: Authors: Stavros Angelis (Athena RC) Agiatis Benardou (Athena RC) – Work Package Leader Nephelie Chatzidiakou (Athena RC) Panos Constantopoulos (Athena RC) Costis Dallas (Athena RC) Alastair Dunning (Europeana Foundation) Jennifer Edmond (TCD) Stefan Ekman (UGOT/SND) Vicky Garnett (TCD) Dimitris Gavrilis (Athena RC) Caspar Jordan (UGOT/SND) Kika Kalogeropoulou (Athena RC) Konstantinos Karozos (Athena RC) Ilze Lace (UGOT/SND) Rufus Latham (UGOT/SND) Marian Lefferts (CERL) Dimitra-Nefeli Makri (Athena RC) Athanassios Mantes (Athena RC) Eliza Papaki (Athena RC) Dimitar Popovski (UGOT/SND) Owain Roberts (NLW) Norman Roger (University of Edinburgh) Martin Schaller (ONB) Björn Sjögren (UGOT/SND) Ingeborg Versprille (CERL) Kees Waterman (KNAW) Project co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme Dissemination Level P Public P C Confidential, only for members of the consortium and the Commission Services Revision History Revision Date Author Organisation Description 1. September Agiatis Athena RC Table of Contents, initial content of the 2015 Benardou report. 2. October WP1 Revision of ToC and structure 08, 2015 members 3. November WP1 Amendments to the text, revisions and 2015 members changes. 4. November RCAB Review and approval of the text. 2015 5. November WP1 Final editing. 2015 members Statement of originality: This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. D1.3 User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report. Content Strategy Report. Executive summary1 The present Deliverable (1.3) comprises of two joint reports: former Deliverable 1.3 (User Requirements and Case Studies report) and Deliverable 1.6 (Content Strategy Report). As a product of a multi-scale, interdisciplinary effort, Deliverable 1.3 (User Requirements and Case Studies report / Content Strategy Report) employs a multi-faceted approach to make sense of the information needs and behaviour of Humanities and Social Sciences researchers both within and outside the Europeana ecosystem, while achieving profound understanding of the ways these communities interact with existing Europeana content and metadata. Through extensive and widely-levelled empirical research (Case Studies, Web Survey, Interviews, Focus Groups) complimented by thorough desk research (Literature review, study of particular thematic areas), and building on work previously conducted in the context of other Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures (DARIAH, EHRI, ARIADNE, NeDiMAH) Work Package 1 managed to reach a long list of non-prioritized User Requirements as well as a set of flexible Content Recommendations for the upcoming development of Europeana Research. 1 The members of Work Package 1 would like to thank the Research Communities Advisory Board (Prof. Lorna Hughes, Dr. Leif Isaksen, Prof. Karina Van Dalen-Oskam) for their insightful comments and supportive ideas throughout this endeavour. Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.3 User Requirements Analysis & Case Studies Report. Content Strategy ReportPage 3 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................ 7 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND RELATED WORK ................................................................................................... 9 2.1. AN OVERVIEW OF USER INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR STUDIES ............................................................................................... 2.2. CONTENT-WISE DESK RESEARCH ................................................................................................................................... 2.3. OTHER RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES INITIATIVES ............................................................................................................ 2.4. WHAT ABOUT TOOLS? ............................................................................................................................................... 3. RESEARCH COMMUNITIES WEB SURVEY ..................................................................................................... 16 3.1 METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 3.2 SAMPLE ................................................................................................................................................................ 17 3.3 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ...................................................................................................................................... 21 3.4 CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................................................................................... 36 4. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CASE STUDIES .................................................................................... 38 4.1 ABOUT THE TASK: PURPOSE AND METHOD ................................................................................................................... 38 4.2 CASE STUDY 1: EDUCATION AND TRANSANA ............................................................................................................... 46 4.3 CASE STUDY 2: ART HISTORY AND HYPERIMAGE .......................................................................................................... 55 4.4 CASE STUDY 3: SOCIOLOGY AND NODEXL ................................................................................................................... 69 5. APIS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH ............................................................................. 87 5.1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................... 87 5.2 SECTION 1: CURRENT TRENDS AND BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLES IN API CREATION AND USAGE ................................................. 88 5.3 SECTION 2: RESEARCHER BEHAVIOURS WITH REGARDS TO APIS AND DATA GENERALLY .................................................... 106 5.4 SECTION 3: RECOMMENDATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES EUROPEANA MIGHT APPLY ........................................................... 123 6. RESEARCH THEMES FOR AGGREGATING DIGITAL CONTENT ...................................................................... 129 6.1 PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS IN EUROPE ........................................................................................................................ 130 6.2 POPULATION DISPLACEMENT AS A RESULT OF CONFLICT IN THE 20TH CENTURY ................................................................ 139 6.3 POLITICAL PROPAGANDA ....................................................................................................................................... 152 6.4 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ........................................................................................................................................ 162 6.5 EUROPEAN SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY .................................................................................................. 180 6.6 THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN .............................................................................................................................. 203 7. USER REQUIREMENTS AND CONTENT STRATEGY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EUROPEANA RESEARCH ..... 217 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................................... 226 APPENDICES....................................................................................................................................................... 236 APPENDIX 1: EUROPEANA CLOUD RESEARCH COMMUNITY WEB SURVEY ............................................................................. 236 APPENDIX 2 EUROPEANA RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE – POLITICAL PROPAGANDA .................................................................. 247 APPENDIX 3 PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS IN EUROPE ............................................................................................................ 250 APPENDIX 4: EUROPEAN SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY ..................................................................................... 251 Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.3 User Requirements Analysis & Case Studies Report. Content Strategy ReportPage 4 List of figures Figure 1. Respondents’ field of study ........................................................................................18 Figure 2. Disciplinary belonging. ...............................................................................................19 Figure 3. Participants’ professional affiliation and status ...........................................................20 Figure 4. Total number of researchers in the sample. ...............................................................20