How knowledge workers use the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Primarily history: historians and the search for primary source materials
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web
Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web
On the recommending of citations for research papers
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Faceted metadata for image search and browsing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM SIGIR Forum
Understanding user goals in web search
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Enhancing digital libraries with TechLens+
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
User centred interactive search in the humanities
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
The impact of task on the usage of web browser navigation mechanisms
GI '06 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006
An exploration of web-based monitoring: implications for design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding target users of a digital reference library
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
/facet: a browser for heterogeneous semantic web repositories
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
MultimediaN e-culture demonstrator
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
The effects of source credibility ratings in a cultural heritage information aggregator
Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Information credibility on the web
Improving user confidence in cultural heritage aggregated results
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Fancy a Drink in Canary Wharf?: A User Study on Location-Based Mobile Search
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
Designing a thesaurus-based comparison search interface for linked cultural heritage sources
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Expert search for radio and television: a case study amongst Dutch broadcast professionals
Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video
A study of users' requirements in the development of palm leaf manuscripts metadata schema
ICADL'10 Proceedings of the role of digital libraries in a time of global change, and 12th international conference on Asia-Pacific digital libraries
Computing similarity between cultural heritage items using multimodal features
LaTeCH '12 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Computing similarity between items in a digital library of cultural heritage
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
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We report on our user study on the information seeking behavior of cultural heritage experts and the sources they use to carry out search tasks. Seventeen experts from nine cultural heritage institutes in the Netherlands were interviewed and asked to answer questionnaires about their daily search activities. The interviews helped us to better understand their search motivations, types, sources and tools. A key finding of our study is that the majority of search tasks involve relatively complex information gathering. This is in contrast to the relatively simple fact-finding oriented support provided by current tools. We describe a number of strategies that experts have developed to overcome the inadequacies of their tools. Finally, based on the analysis, we derive general trends of cultural heritage experts' information seeking needs and discuss our preliminary experiences with potential solutions.