In these slides I provide a brief walkthrough of the current state of play in regards to the design. I also introduce our two personas.

1. Plenary meeting, BnF, Paris
10 February 2015
Year 1 WP4 Review
David Haskiya, Europeana
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2. 2
What I’ll present today
1. Channels development roadmap
2. Personas
3. Walkthrough of wireframes
4. Summary
5. Formalia (for you to read)
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3. 3
Channels Roadmap
- looking back, looking forward
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4. H2 2015:
Development of portal/channels leading up to January 16 release
Development of tools for batch upload to SoundCloud and/or Spotify
Q2-Q3 2014 Q4 2014 Q1 2015 Q2 2015
User research
Design principles
Wireframes
Personas
Prototype v1/MS19
External Channels
Brief/MS18
Personas
Wireframes
Technical
research and
design
Prototype v2/MS20
Technical research
and design
Visual design and
web design
Development
Release (April):
Alpha Portal/
Channel
Development
Usability testing
Release (July):
Beta Portal/
Channel

5. 5
Persona presentation
- meet Marcel and Marion
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6. Vulture
Professional/ semi-
professional interest
Has academic domain
expertise
Search oriented
Engage on-Channel
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7. 7
Personal or vocational
interest
Browse oriented
Engage off-Channel
Snacker

8. 8
Wireframes walkthrough
- the Music Channel visualised
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9. A note on the wireframes
● None of the wireframes are at step 3
● Some wireframes are between 1 and 2
● Some wireframes are between 2 and 3
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10. ● Context and overview
● Search w. autosuggest
● Browse entry points
● Exhibitions entry points
● Partner attribution/
branding
● Other channels/ sites/
apps
Channel landing page

11. ● List view available
(default)
● Channels as facets
● Channel specific facets
● Content facets
● Resource type facet
desired
Search result - grid view

12. ● Direct link assumed
● Download main call to
action
● Enlarge/zoom/paginate
● Wikipedia sourced
descriptions
● Channel suggestion
Item page - multi-page doc

13. ● Embeds from SoundCloud,
AudioBoo, Vimeo, YouTube
Item page - embedded player

14. ● Description and links
● Item highlights
● Exhibitions entry points
● Channels suggestion
● Exhibitions suggestion
● Will require your help!!!
Partner page

15. Creator page
● Description
● Biographical data
● Items by/about
● Links to other authorities
● Channels suggestion
● Exhibitions suggestion
● Dbpedia/Wikidata sourced

16. ● Genres, types, subjects,
topics
● Description
● Structured data
● Items of that concept
● Links to other authorities
● Channels suggestion
● Dbpedia/Wikidata sourced
Concept page

17. ● Description
● Structured data
● Items from that period
(or Creators?)
Period page

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SUMMARY
● The first channel featuring Sounds content
will be on the Music theme (classical,
traditional, popular)
● Design still ongoing, focus on visual design
and web design
● Development beginning this week
● First public version/beta in July 2015

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Project Formalia
- objectives, milestones, deliverables
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20. • WP lead: David Haskiya
• WP title: Channels Development
• WP objectives:
This WP will enhance the existing Europeana portal by implementing a
mechanism for providing channels that enable specific user
communities to discover, share and annotate digital audio content.
• Role of partners:
o For most, integration back-end and/or enrichment
components.
o For some, contribute to User Experience research and
design.
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Work package introduction

21. • Deliverables for year 1: None
• Milestones for year 1:
o MS18 External Distribution Channels Brief
o MS19 First Audio Channels Prototype
o MS20 Second Audio Channels Prototype
• KPIs for year 1: None
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Work package year 1 outputs

22. • Work description for year 1:
The first year of WP4 has been focused on preparing for the intensive
development of the second year. As such it has been dominated by
research and design activities: user experience research and design,
technical research and design, and research of non-Europeana platforms
(Spotify, SoundCloud) for distribution and increased audience reach.
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Work package year 1 review

23. • Lessons learned from year 1:
o UX research and design would be better done in a more intense
fashion over a shorter period of calendar time
o An early and more detailed inventory of planned content, its nature
(genres, resource types), copyright status and technical quality
would have been very useful in both Channels UX research and in
evaluating the feasibility of batch uploads to Spotify and
SoundCloud
o Spotify has very tough requirements on metadata, audio file
formats and copyright. Higher than what is required by
Sounds/Europeana.
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Work package year 1 review

24. • Looking ahead: Year 2 and beyond!
o Develop the Music Channel
o Develop tools to support data provision to SoundCloud
and/or Spotify
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Work package year 2