Development of a Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Trustworthiness for Digitized Archival Documents.

Digital Curation;Trustworthiness;Digitized documents;Genealogy;Digital repositories;Information and Library Science;Social Sciences;Information

Donaldson, Devan RayJacoby, William G. ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Digital Curation;    Trustworthiness;    Digitized documents;    Genealogy;    Digital repositories;    Information and Library Science;    Social Sciences;    Information;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

Trustworthiness is the most fundamental but least well understood propertyof digital repositories that hold and preserve archival documents. As these digital repositories scale in size and complexity, they are becoming essential sources for increasingly diverse populations of users. Scholarship across multiple disciplines has demonstrated that the trustworthiness of a digital repository tends to originate with organizational branding, surrounds and envelops the ;;control zone” of the managed digital space, and so resides primarily at the collective level of the repository. In spite of its conceptual centrality, little research has investigated trustworthiness of the documentary contents of repositories as conceived by the designated communities of users that the repository is intended to serve. This dissertation investigates users’ perceptions of trustworthiness for archival documents housed in a large, heterogeneous, government‐run digital repository. This dissertation utilizes the methodology of scale development, which involves four steps: 1) Construct Definition, 2) Generating an Item Pool, 3)Designing the Scale, and 4) Full Administration and Item Analysis. To address Steps 1 and 2 of scale development, I conducted a focus group study to elicit perspectiveson trustworthiness and identify items for measurement of trustworthiness basedupon actual users’ articulation of the concept; twenty‐two genealogists whoregularly utilize documents preserved by the Washington State Digital Archives participated. To address Steps 3 and 4 of scale development, I conductedquantitative survey research and evaluated the responses of 233 genealogists,including constructing and testing an original Digitized Archival DocumentTrustworthiness Scale (DADTS). I also validated DADTS with a sample of usersbeyond the participants who were used to develop it. DADTS specifies thecomponents of trustworthiness and also demonstrates the measurability of theconcept within a digital repository context at the document level.This dissertation advances scholarship on trustworthiness in three ways.First, it revises an existing conceptual model for trustworthiness perception.Second, it creates an original measurement model for digitized archival documenttrustworthiness perception—the Digitized Archival Document TrustworthinessScale (DADTS). Third, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the concept oftrustworthiness by providing measurement of the concept in a way that is sensitive to its nuances.