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User-Centered Design
"Could Voyager be transformed into a flexible] system?" This
question was asked on VMUG-L in September 2005. Endeavor's OPAC Special
Interest Group plans to develop a new "user-focused interface"
beginning in 2006. "This new interface will be based on a new architecture
and will NOT be a replacement for WebVoyàge."
Below is some documentation to help pique VMUG's collective imagination
and inform VMUG's dialog about future design.
- NSCU catalog: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/browse.html
Offers new functionalities that make sense for users. Version 2 will
add FRBRized displays via "record-rollup." As usual, music-specific
issues will need attention. How will VMUG respond as these technologies
become possible in Endeavor products? How will the music library profession
respond in general? See original posting in MLA-L archive (forwarded
1/13/6 by Pamela Bristah).
- OCLC Scholar's Weblog: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000919.html
Lorcan Dempsey's blog on how catalogs should be built, presented,
and managed. See also
his other interesting postings, such as "the user interface that
isn't."
- University of California's December recommendations for that library's
catalog:
Summary: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/ExecSum.pdf
Full report: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf.
It includes some examples (including NCSU).
- FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)
"FRBRized" catalogs "group" works together
for easier browsing by work, format, language, etc. To learn more,
see the PowerPoint presentation, "Showboating FRBR: What Can
FRBR Do for You? FRBR Applied to a Musical Work," at http://www.cla-net.org/included/docs/frbr.pdf.
For further information, see http://www.lib.uconn.edu/music/VMUG/FRBR.html.
- Web site usability and user-centered design principles (selected
readings): http://www.lib.uconn.edu/~sbrown/usability.html.
- Automation Requirements for Music Materials (February 2000): http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/committee/co_adm_autoreq.htm Link
dead 3/7/7. File not found at MLA site or clearinghouse.
An updated version is in the works. (It was supposed to be unveiled
at MLA this year, but has been held for further development.) Given
new technologies, are we asking for the right features? In today's
environment of "user-centered interfaces," can the music
automation requirements distinguish between clumsy (perhaps even
useless) implementation and outstanding, user-friendly implementation?
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