Metadata elements preferred in searching and assessing relevance of archived television broadcast by scholars and students in media studies Towards the design of surrogate records Kirkegaard, Brian Publication date: 2008 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Kirkegaard, B. (2008). Metadata elements preferred in searching and assessing relevance of archived television broadcast by scholars and students in media studies: Towards the design of surrogate records. [Danmarks Biblioteksskole]. Download date: 25. Sep. 2021 Metadata elements preferred in searching and assessing relevance of archived television broadcast by scholars and students in media studies: Towards the design of surrogate records Brian Kirkegaard PhD thesis from Research Programme Information Interaction and Information Architecture Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Metadata elements preferred in searching and assessing relevance of archived television broadcast by scholars and students in media studies: Towards the design of surrogate records Brian Kirkegaard PhD thesis from Research Programme Information Interaction and Information Architecture Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark CIP – Cataloguing in Publication Kirkegaard, Brian Metadata elements preferred in searching and assessing relevance of archived television broadcast by scholars and students in media studies: Towards the design of surrogate records / Brian Kirkegaard. – Aalborg, Denmark: Royal School of Library and Information Science, 2008. – XVII, 311, plus Appendix volume. Available: http://biblis.db.dk/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/db.brikir07 ISBN 978-87-7415-305-4 ISBN 978-87-7415-305-4 © Copyright Brian Kirkegaard, 2008 All rights reserved Medievidenskabelige forskere og studerendes foretrukne metadataelementer ved søgning og relevansvurdering af tv- udsendelser i relation til design af surrogatposter Brian Kirkegaard Ph.d.-afhandling fra Forskningsprogrammet Informationsinteraktion og Informationsarkitektur Danmarks Biblioteksskole Acknowledgement I wish to express my acknowledgement of, and indebtedness to, all of my colleagues, friends, and family who have supported me in my doctoral work. The encouragement, inspiration, moral support, advice, and constructive criticism have been priceless. The list of persons to whom I own my gratitude is extensive, and with the risk of neglecting to mention persons that genuinely deserve the expression of my indebtedness, I will put a name to a few of these supportive people. First of all, I want to thank my principal supervisor Associate Professor and Head of Research Programme Pia Borlund. Pia, you have taking me under your wing in every way, you have been a wonderful supervisor, and I owe everything to you. I am gratefully indebted to you for the immense work you have put into it, and during the last three years you have truly made me appreciate red ink, owed to the fact that your comments have been pearls of wisdom. Your eternal confidence in me and my work have provided an invaluable encouragement in good times as well as when my own faith experienced lapses. Your teaching and dedication to LIS inspired me to apply for the doctoral scholarship in the first place, and you have been a first-class guide on the, at times, bumpy PhD journey. In addition to my principal supervisor, I am indebted to numerous colleagues and friends. Especially Associate Professors Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Jesper W. Schneider, and Birger Larsen, PhD student Mette Skov, and Professor Peter Ingwersen. Thank you Marianne and Jesper for always being there for me and for providing encouragement whenever it was needed. Mette, despite the distance you have been a dear colleague, and knowing you have really made me appreciate Graham Bells 130 year old “electrical speech machine”. Peter I am very grateful for your kindness and your willingness to chair my assessment committee. While we are at it, I want to thank Professor Eero Sormunen and Associate Professor Morten Hertzum for joining the review committee. I know it has been hard work reviewing the thesis, and I really appreciate your evaluation and constructive criticism. I would also take the opportunity to thank the many kind and helpful people I have meet outside the research community of the Royal School of Library and Information Science. In particular, I am thankful to the NorsLIS community for providing constructive and knowledge stimulating doctoral courses and workshops, and for allocating grants. Senior researchers as well as fellow PhD students have provided the constructive and thought stimulating environment found in the courses. In I Metadata elements preferred in searching and assessing relevance of archived television broadcast by scholars and students in media studies particular, I would take the opportunity to fellow doctoral students, now PhDs, and friends Kora Golub and David Elsweiler. I am also grateful for my research visits at Dublin and Aarhus University. Thank you Professor Alan Smeaton, Senior Lecturer Dr. Gareth Jones, and Lecturer Dr. Cathal Gurrin for making the research visit at the Centre of Digital Video Processing at Dublin University possible. I am also thankful to Associate Professor Jørgen Bang concerning the research visit at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University. This research visit was essential for my data collection and I am indebted to the test participants from the Media Studies departments at Aarhus University as well as at Copenhagen University, and in particular I am grateful to the nine test participants who participated in interviews. I want to thank the State and University Library for providing the topical frame for the thesis, as well as for the corporation during the project, and especially for ensuring a workplace for me at the library. Several persons from the library have contributed directly or indirectly to my work. I want to thank Director of Development, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard for being my project supervisor. The Research Forum at the library, have shown a keen interest in my work and in particular, I wish to express my gratitude to Head of Research and Special Collections Harald von Hielmcrone and Senior Research Fellow, now retired, Helge Clausen for taking a genuine interest in my work. The staff at the State Media Archive has been very open and helpful throughout the project, and I owe all of you my gratitude. I also owe gratitude to the administration and IT department at the Royal School of Library and Information Science. Thank you Bo, Lisbeth, Dorte, Mimi, Tove, Lisbeth, Jette, Lise Lotte, and Frank. In particular, I am thankful for Clerk Mimi Lindegaard Hansen’s support in formatting the troublesome word-file, and Librarians Jette Thise Pedersen and Hanne Guldhammer Møller for providing swift library support when needed. I would also like to thank Assistant Professor Jan Steffensen for programming the web-questionnaire in ASP. Lastly, I would take the opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to my friends and family for holding in throughout the long periods where socializing with me has been drudgery. Thank you for your patience despite the fact that no, no, and absolutely no have been my stock answer for any social activity, and consequently my attendance mainly have been of an imaginary kind. Your persistence is an assurance of your true friendship. Warmest of all is my gratitude to Tine, my wife in spe. Tine your unconditional love, support and encouragement in good as well as bad times have been tremendous and incomparable. Thank you for always being there and for always believing in me. II Abstract The present doctoral work concerns the investigation of three aspects of scholars’ and students’ information seeking behaviour in a television broadcast context, and the associated implications for design and construction of metadata elements in surrogate records in future broadcast retrieval systems. The three aspects of information seeking behaviour in focus are information need characteristics, preferred search entries, and application of relevance criteria. The thesis provides considerations regarding the construction of surrogate records for broadcasts in the Danish national collection of television broadcasts at the State and University Library in Aarhus. At present, no surrogate records exist for the collection, and hence no retrieval facilities are available for users. To gather knowledge about the construction of surrogate records for a future broadcasts retrieval system, the present work focuses on three interconnected research areas: 1) aspects of users’ information seeking behaviour in relation to television broadcasts; 2) appropriate access points for television broadcasts; and 3) construction of surrogate records for television broadcasts. Users’ information seeking behaviour is the behaviour connected to the purposive actions when seeking information in order to fulfil an underlying work task (Wilson, 2000, p. 49). The present work inquires into three aspects of academics’ information seeking behaviour in a television broadcast context, namely: 1) characteristics of the users’ information needs; 2) the users’ search entry preferences; and 3) the users’ application of relevance criteria. Investigation of these aspects of the academics’ information seeking behaviour reveals which television broadcast dimensions that are of importance for effective retrieval of television broadcasts. Knowledge about these dimensions