User-Centered Evaluation of Metadata Schema for Nonmovable Cultural Heritage: Murals and Stone Cave Temples

User-Centered Evaluation of Metadata Schema for Nonmovable Cultural Heritage: Murals and Stone Cave Temples

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User-Centered Evaluation of Metadata Schema for Nonmovable Cultural Heritage: Murals and Stone Cave Temples

Xiao Hu, Jeremy Ng and Shengping Xia

Digitization provides a solution for documentation and preservation of nonmovable cultural heritages. Despite efforts for the preservation of cultural heritages around the world, no well-accepted metadata schema has been developed for murals and stone cave temples, which are often high-value heritages built in ancient times. In addition, the literature is scarce on the user-centered evaluation of metadata schemas of this kind. This study therefore aims to offer insights on developing and evaluating a metadata schema for organizing information of these historic and complex cultural heritages. In-depth interviews were conducted with a total of 30 users, including 18 professional and 12 public users, and interview transcripts were coded through a qualitative content analysis approach. Findings reveal the importance of specific metadata elements as perceived by the two groups of end users, which correlated with their cultural heritage information-seeking behaviors. In addition, the issues of standardization of cataloging of cultural heritage information and interoperability among metadata schemas have been raised by users for enhancing the user experience with digital platforms of cultural heritage information. The coding schema developed in this study can serve as a framework for follow-up evaluations of metadata schemas, contributing to the ongoing development of cultural heritage metadata.

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More journal articles and conference papers related to the course CCCH9051 ‘Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China’ and written by the course teaching team:

 

Journal articles:

  1.  Hu, X., Ng, J. T. D., & Xia, S. (2018). User-centered evaluation of metadata schema for non-movable cultural heritage: Murals and stone cave temples. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69(12), 1476-1487. (IF: 2.738, 21/89, h5 index: 60, No.1)
  2. Hu, X. (2018). Usability evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries: A case of e-dunhuang. Data and Information Management. 2(2), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.2478/dim-2018-0008
  3.  Hu, X., Ho, E. M. Y., & Qiao, C. (2017). Digitizing Dunhuang cultural heritage: A user evaluation of Mogao cave panorama digital library. Journal of Data and Information Science, 2(3), 49–67.  https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2017-0014

Conference papers:

  1. Hu, X., Ng, J. T. D., Lee, C. N. H. & Tsang, H. Y. H. (2022). Towards automated analysis of undergraduate academic writing using metadiscourse, cognitive level and word network. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).
  2. Ng, J. T. D., Sun, Y. & Hu, X. (2022). An exploratory study on students’ digital curation competency and experience in a general education course. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).
  3. Ng, J. T. D., Wang, Z. & Hu, X. (2022). Needs analysis and prototype evaluation of student-facing LA dashboard for virtual reality content creation. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK), Online.
  4. Ng, J. T. D., Hu, X. & Que, Y. (2022). Towards multi-modal evaluation of eye-tracked virtual heritage environment. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK), Online.
  5. Hu, X., Ng, J. T. D. & Liu, R. (2021). Development and evaluation of a digital museum of a national intangible cultural heritage from China. In Proceedings of the iConference (Best short paper award nomination).
  6. Ng, J., Liu, W., Hu, X., and Jung, T. (2020). Evaluation of low-end virtual reality content of cultural heritage: A preliminary study with eye movement, In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
  7. Hu, X., Ng, J. & Lee, J. H. (2019). VR creation experience in cultural heritage education: A preliminary exploration, In Proceedings of the 82th Annual Meeting of Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). (h5 index: 14)
  8. Hu, X., Yu, B., Alman, S., Renear, A. H., & Carbo, T. (2017). Teaching information science and technology to the world? Practices, challenges and visions. In Proceedings of the 80th Annual Meeting of Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 54(1), 566-569.