Domain categories Clause Samples

Domain categories. Based upon partner knowledge and experience, and reviewing the research literature and state-of-the-art monitoring in those areas of digital cultural heritage relevant to PATHS, we have identified four primary user domains:  Heritage Users  Education Users  General Users  Professional Users (non-heritage sectors) These have much in common with the domains selected for the Europeana and Multimatch projects (see Section 3.2.2). For instance, Europeana defines five types of users comprising General user, School student, Academic user, Expert researcher and Professional user, whilst Multimatch defines target groups as educational (including educator and learner roles), cultural tourism (consumers), and cultural heritage (creators, composers, managers and brokers). For PATHS we have included both expert and non-expert roles in each of the four domains, with the defining characteristic of each domain being the goals of the main actors within it. Following internal discussion of the exact nature of these domains and their users, we envisage that the greatest level of usage of PATHS in terms of path-creation activities will come from users in the Heritage and Education domains; in fact there is potentially a significant degree of overlap between these domains in the area of informal learning activities. Professional users are also an important category, and again there is some degree of overlap with Heritage in sectors such as tourism, but we feel that these would less frequent users in the main, focussed more on one-off projects rather than regular use. General Users are identified mainly by the activities they are engaged in being non-work related, for example, they may have more of a leisure or entertainment focus, and in fact, it may be that many so-called General users may be employed in the other three domains. These expectations are confirmed by the results of our primary data collection in Sections 4- 7, where it is clear that there are relevant expert path creation tasks that have similarities across the domains and the main roles within them.