No metadata scheme can address all of the needs of a heterogeneous community of users and their specific information resources. For the SI-DIH repository, which is maintained by the Institute of Contemporary History, we have developed an application profile for digital critical editions, which are a common form of publishing scientific achievements in the field of digital humanities. In the empirical part of the thesis, we presented the process of creating an application profile according to Zeng and Chan (2008) and described the process of implementation in the SI-DIH repository, and its administration system. We successfully implemented the application profile into the SI-DIH repository, where we used a digital edition titled »Casting of Death« as a testing example. To check the quality and evaluate the performance of the application profile we designed three ad hoc user personas and created three evaluation scenarios, on which we tested the usefulness of the newly-implemented application profile. Results showed that the application profile could adress the information needs of the two main user groups of the SI-DIH repository. Although, without a formal user testing, we are not able to claim that with certainty.
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