TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as an engagement tool for the Jordanian cultural heritage community
AU - Mubaideen, Shatha
AU - Flohr, Pascal
AU - Smithies, James
AU - Bala’awi, Fadi
AU - Palmer, Carol
AU - Idwan, Sahar
AU - Esposito, Alessandra
N1 - Funding Information:
The MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan project was funded by the Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development in Jordan AHRC Newton/Khalidi call. Ref. AH/S011722/1.
Publisher Copyright:
© Council for British Research in the Levant 2022.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - MaDiH (Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan) was a two-year UK-Jordanian project that aimed to identify essential systems, datasets and standards to contribute to the long-term sustainable development of Jordan’s digital cultural heritage. The project launched an online catalogue and prototype repository using the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) platform to present the collected data that was produced by the local and international research community on Jordan’s cultural heritage. This paper assesses the usability of the MaDiH CKAN catalogue using qualitative and quantitative methods. A thorough analysis of the project’s user engagement activities and online presence was undertaken to identify current and potential future uses of the CKAN catalogue by its research community. The preliminary analysis indicated that the largest user group were mid-senior to senior academics/professionals from the cultural heritage sector. Therefore, representatives of this group were selected for further usability analysis through semi-structured online interviews, in order to validate the research outcomes and get deeper insights into the research domain. The findings offer significant insights for similar digital cultural heritage initiatives in Jordan, as well as recommendations for the future development of the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as a National Heritage Portal repository.
AB - MaDiH (Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan) was a two-year UK-Jordanian project that aimed to identify essential systems, datasets and standards to contribute to the long-term sustainable development of Jordan’s digital cultural heritage. The project launched an online catalogue and prototype repository using the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) platform to present the collected data that was produced by the local and international research community on Jordan’s cultural heritage. This paper assesses the usability of the MaDiH CKAN catalogue using qualitative and quantitative methods. A thorough analysis of the project’s user engagement activities and online presence was undertaken to identify current and potential future uses of the CKAN catalogue by its research community. The preliminary analysis indicated that the largest user group were mid-senior to senior academics/professionals from the cultural heritage sector. Therefore, representatives of this group were selected for further usability analysis through semi-structured online interviews, in order to validate the research outcomes and get deeper insights into the research domain. The findings offer significant insights for similar digital cultural heritage initiatives in Jordan, as well as recommendations for the future development of the MaDiH CKAN catalogue as a National Heritage Portal repository.
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U2 - 10.1080/00758914.2022.2070233
DO - 10.1080/00758914.2022.2070233
M3 - Article
VL - 54
SP - 277
EP - 284
JO - Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant
JF - Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant
IS - 2
ER -