Bold for titles; no italicsNot-bold for slide textKRS:We’d like to thank you for the opportunity to talk about our project to design a content-rich academic library web site.We will be presenting information about our web site redesign project for the next several minutes, and will happily take questions at the end.
Designing For Content Rich Sites - Presentation Transcript
Designing for Content-Rich Sites Mike Creech Karen Reiman-Sendi Ken Varnum University of Michigan Library Internet Librarian 2009
Introduction Background Usability Process & Design Process Technologies Used Observations & Lessons
Where We Started
Re-Architecting the Site Web Team charge: allow the Dean to find stuff more easily “Information, not location” Harness work with VuFind, LibGuides
Seeking/Setting a Direction Information Gathering Surveys Focus Groups Advisory Groups Drafting Blueprints Taxonomy User Interface Technologies
Typical Development Process Analysis Maintenance & Updating Spec Building Design & Development Promotion Coding Testing
Our Development Process Data Collection & Analysis UI Design Milestone Release User Testing & Feedback Content Migration SystemDevelopment
The Foundation We open source software Preference for building over buying Trend toward customization of generic tool We have in-house capability to customize Drupal, VuFind, Solr But use more than open source Still live in a vendor-driven environment Metalib, EZProxy, SFX, Aleph ILS
Our Tool Box
Today’s Gateway
Search
Articles Search
Catalog Search
Browse
Get Help Contact a librarian Find documentation and guides Workshops & tutorials
Observations Ejournals list, not just search QuickLinks My Account Being ‘green’: reusing & recycling code and taxonomy
Lessons Top-down process can work Legacy content is a two-edged sword Service providers can be helpful
What’s Next? Respond to outcomes from usability testing and patron feedback Future tools and functionality -- i.e., article discovery Building increasingly personalized services on top of new foundation
Q&A Mike Creech Web Content Manager mscreech@umich.edu Karen Reiman-Sendi Digital Information Services Librarian karsendi@umich.edu Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager varnum@umich.edu Slides http://bit.ly/1btBWR
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Webpages, research guides from Springshare’s LibGuides, licensed content, full-text journals, subject experts, digital collections ... and books online and offline. How is a library patron to figure out what’s what in this complex environment? Using independently developed tools from various systems to build a seamless whole, the UM library rebuilt its website, bringing the information patrons want into the forefront and the byzantine path to get it in the background. Speakers share results of extensive user studies, how they iteratively designed the site, and discuss the opensource technologies (Solr, Lucene, Drupal, XML, VuFind) that make it work. Mike Creech, Karen Reiman-Sendi, and Ken Varnum of the University of Michigan Library. less
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