Though not a direct answer to your query, you may find the following
articles helpful:
Tim Hutchinson, "Strategies for Searching Online Finding Aids: A
Retrieval Experiment," Archivaria 44 (Fall 1997): 72-101.
A report of an early study based on web-mounted finding aids
from the San Diego and Berkeley campuses of the University of California.
Kathleen Feeney, "Retrieval of Archival Finding Aids Using
World-Wide-Web Search Engines," The American Archivist 62 (Fall 1999):
206-228.
A report of a study using the Alta Vista and Hot Bot search
engines to access finding aids mounted by the Southern Historical Collection
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
--Monica
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Monica Manny Ralston
Archival Collections Cataloger
Minnesota Historical Society
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> From: Joanne Evans[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:41 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: EAD User Studies
>
> Dear EADers
>
> I was wondering whether any EAD implementors have undertaken any user
> studies as to the effectiveness of EAD finding aids in satisfying
> researchers needs? Has anybody any plans to do this and what sort of
> methods are being considered?
>
> Cheers
> Joanne
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