Creating compelling user interfaces to drive engagement and impact
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This document discusses creating compelling user interfaces for digital collections. It notes that competition for attention means numbers are not enough and that content, infrastructure, and access are important. The document recommends putting text into a search system like Solr and images into a server like IIIF. It provides examples of features like autocomplete, faceted search, timelines and geospatial search. Different viewers like Mirador are shown to allow customized experiences. New interfaces for interpretation and gaming are suggested. The conclusion emphasizes engaging users to create impact beyond just putting data online.
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Creating compelling user interfaces to drive engagement and impact
- 1. Creating compelling user interfaces Tristan Roddis, Cogapp DPLAfest 2106, Washington D.C.
- 3. Competition for attention Numbers are not enough!
- 5. Wine = content Glass = infrastructure Drinking = access
- 6. Wine = content => 32% Glass = infrastructure => 22% Drinking = access => 46%
- 7. It’s all about impact!
- 8. The Good News This is easy to do, given some prerequisites: 1) Put your text content into a modern search system (Solr, Elastic Search…) 2) Put you image content into a dynamic server (IIPImage, Loris, Djatoka...)* * ideally IIIF-compatible!
- 9. Aggregation
- 10. Aggregation
- 11. Aggregation
- 12. Aggregation
- 13. Aggregation
- 15. Video records from Youtube
- 16. Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive
- 17. Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive Digitised book records from Internet Archive
- 18. Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive Digitised book records from Internet Archive Page from Drupal CMS
- 20. Autocomplete
- 21. Faceted search
- 22. Faceted search
- 23. Date histogram
- 24. Geo-search
- 26. Text layout
- 27. Text layout
- 28. Images
- 32. IIIF viewers Different viewers allow different audiences to experience the same content in different ways Universal Viewer Mirador Internet Archive Book Reader Compare viewers at http://labs.cogapp.com/iiif/
- 33. New interfaces for interpretation Boschproject.org Visible Infrared Infrared reflectography
- 35. 3D virtual world? labs.cogapp.com/tc
- 36. Conclusion It’s not enough to put your data online You must engage your users to create lasting impact Searchable content and flexible images are a springboard for compelling interfaces I’d love to hear from you: tristanr@cogapp.com
Editor's Notes
- Graphic by 1000memories, referenced by http://petapixel.com/2011/09/16/the-relative-sizes-of-the-worlds-largest-photo-libraries/
- Second point controversial at an aggregator’s conference!
- Simon Tanner, Digital Humanities, Kings College London Presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/KDCS/mirror-signal-manoeuvre-how-understanding-context-indicators-and-strategic-direction-can-make-an-impact-not-a-car-crash
- Question asked by Simon Tanner.
- Results from an audience poll at DCDC conference 2015. Overwhelming majority (rightly) consider access the most important Sea change in way to view collections and archives. Not belittling the challenges of the first two, but it’s all too easy to focus on these two at the expense of the last one.
- Impact as in: what will happen as a result of your content. How can users extract information from data?
- Show you some examples for Cogapp and other organisations
- Example search from the Yiddish Book Center (created by Cogapp, 2015) http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
- Content lives in different repositories, but appears seamlessly to users
- Because autocomplete is based on the text corpus indexed by your search engine, so can happen for free: no extra classification necessary!
- This relies on extra classification. Numbers after categories give a user an indication of what to expect before they click
- Example from Qatar Digital Library (Created by Cogapp, 2013) http://www.qdl.qa/ Also surface the selected facets prominently so that a) users know what filters are applied and b) they can easily remove them if required.
- Demo online: http://www.qdl.qa/en/search/site/?f[0]=document_source:archive_source
- Great interface from OldMapsOnline. Demo: http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
- Part of Cantus Ultimus project. Demo at http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/melody
- OCR text is automatically extracted (example from ‘Transcription’ panel of items in Qatar Digital Library)
- OCR data (ALTO format) also contains positional information, so we can use client-side code to approximate text layout.
- Viewer on Qatar Digital Library website
- Mirador
- Universal Viewer
- Internet Archive Book Reader
- Demo online at http://boschproject.org Also press numeral keys to switch between views
- Example “game” created by Cogapp for the British Library’s crowd-sourcing arcade machine. Using ALTO and IIIF
- Trade Card Explorer. Experiment for Google Cardboard. Content sourced from Boston Public Library, delivered via IIIF