Scientific study presents a characterization of the information needs of Web Archive users

Last updated on December 20th, 2019 at 03:58 pm

This research focuses on what the users intents are and which topics are most interesting to them. Three instruments were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data: search logs, an online questionnaire and a laboratory study.

The paper Understanding the Information Needs of Web Archive Users, by Miguel Costa and Mário J. Silva, was presented at the 10th International Web Archiving Workshop, in Vienna, Austria.