Anyone offering content in a digital library is naturally interested in assessing its
performance: how well does my system meet the users' information needs? Standard …

Abstract Evaluation of digital libraries assesses their effectiveness, quality and overall
impact. To facilitate the comparison of different evaluations and to support the re-use of …

In this article, we present a set of approaches in analysing data gathered during
experimentation with exploratory search systems and users' acts of judging the relevance of …

Evaluation is needed in order to benchmark and improve systems. In information retrieval
(IR), evaluation is centered around the test collection, ie the set of documents that systems …

The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance
on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate …

This study presents findings with a particular digital library system, the Belgian‐American
Research Collection at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC). It …

Digital libraries (DLs) have been evaluated implicitly by analyzing the query behavior
extracted from the log files (LFs), and explicitly by conducting user studies and usability …

In recent years, the importance of log analysis has grown, log data constitute a relevant
aspect in the evaluation process of the quality of a digital library system. In this paper, we …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to apply traditional information
retrieval (IR) evaluation methods based on standards from the Text REtrieval Conference …

Digital libraries aim to provide value to users by housing content that is accessible and
searchable. Often such access is afforded through external web search engines. In this …