INLS 740: Digital Library Evaluation The IMLS/NISO Framework of
Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections states:
Collections Principle 6: A good collection has mechanisms to
supply usage data and other data that allows standardized
measures of usefulness to be recorded. Many such mechanisms
exist. For this exercise we will look at two of them:
automatically-collected weblog statistics and user comments. The
digital library that you will be building for this course will
not be fully enough developed, nor used heavily enough, for
evaluation data to be meaningful. We will therefore be looking
at data from a well-established DL: Documenting the American
South. DocSouth is the flagship project of the Carolina Digital
Library and Archives, and contains several collections, with a
wide range of types of materials, file formats, and presentation
styles. Imagine that you are the Head of DocSouth, or the Head
of the CDLA, or the University Librarian. What would you want or
need to know about DocSouth, in order fo