Catriona Cannon
Deputy Librarian & Keeper of Collections
University of Oxford
Christine Madsen
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Athenaeum21
Good resource discovery tools are not simply about making research easier and faster, but about facilitating the creation, preservation and discovery of knowledge by enabling new modes of research, especially across disciplines. In 2014 the University of Oxford began a robust and unique program of activities to improve discovery of and access to its intellectual assets: garden, museum and library collections, open educational resources and research outputs and data. With over 100 libraries, five museums, botanic gardens and an arboretum at the University, Oxford has been working to find world-leading solutions for connecting students and researchers at Oxford (and abroad) with the collections that are available to them. The University also aimed to make its resources more findable by the wider community, to increase engagement with its world-class collections and research. A year-long research study revealed the nuances of why incoming researchers and students struggle to find relevant collections and found that simply providing better search tools across existing metadata will not improve the situation. Therefore, the University has set out to scope entirely new approaches discovery, exploring new tools and approaches to enable students and researchers at Oxford and abroad to understand the scope of collections held by the University and to find them quickly and efficiently. A current project seeks to create an innovative working prototype that balances users’ needs for cognitive maps against wide-ranging types, and robustness, of data.
The session will present the key findings of a joint
Loughborough University and Taylor & Francis project
looking at postgraduate user experience in the digital
library. Using the findings from ten research students’
diaries collected over an eight-month period, we will focus
on the findings as they relate to the academic journal and
article including: evaluating different publishers’ platforms
and their UX; identifying the approaches and skills needed
in identifying papers relevant for their research; and
approaches to storing papers.
The University of Hertfordshire (UH) implemented a new
commercial Resource Discovery Service at the same time as it
changed to the Koha Open Source Library Management System. In doing so it moved away from using Google Scholar, as its main platform, at a time when many universities are deciding to only use Google Scholar. Hear about the debate between commercial and non-commercial services and why UH made the decisions it did. After 18 months was it the right decision? What has been the impact on library services and library users?
Plenary sessions: the power of digital for change - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
With Dr Paul Feldman, chief executive, Jisc, Professor David Maguire, chair, Jisc, Professor Andrew Harrison, professor of practice at University of Wales Trinity St David and director, Spaces That Work Ltd, Professor Donna Lanclos, associate professor for anthropological research, UNC Charlotte
This presentation was provided by Jack Maness of the University of Denver during the NISO Virtual Conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Providing accessible content can be a costly and timeconsuming
activity for individual libraries who have a legal and
ethical duty to support their students who have disabilities. As
access to online content has grown and funding for support
diminished, libraries are increasingly looking to the benefits
of using their collective effort to assess accessibility of thirdparty
content and then work with publishers and other suppliers
to find solutions. The session will set the scene and provide
some case studies from UK universities that show how we
are supporting students with disabilities in their use of library
content. Libraries have been working individually and collectively
to raise the topic of accessibility with publishers and vendors,
many of whom have engaged with their
customers. In some cases quite simple changes to
publisher platforms can produce effective changes. In others
a much greater investment is needed. The speakers will use
their own experience to outline this topic which we hope will be
relevant to librarians, publishers, system vendors and others.
Janette Burke, Monash University, explores the shift to e, and it doesn't just stand for electronic but engaging, exciting, embracing change, enabling learning.
This workshop will explore the skill sets for scholarly
communication including questions about future
requirements, the language we are using in this space and,
beyond skills, what type of people are suited to different
aspects of librarianship. Scholarly communication requires
people who are able to be flexible in their approach, rather
than ‘rule followers’, which may mean a fundamental shift
in the library workforce into the future. Working collectively,
the session will consider the implications for upskilling our
‘legacy’ workforce.
Open access, universities as publishers - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session focussed on areas where universities are (re)discovering roles, especially in the area of book publishing. Participants will be provided with evidence to help them consider this role for universities as publishers and its implications for them.
Introduction to the Oxford Collections Visualization ProjectChristine Madsen
The overall goals of this project are 1) to provide an overall visualization of all the collections at Oxford that are available to students, faculty, and staff without having to create item-level metadata for everything; 2) to provide a new and innovative type of resource discovery for Oxford’s collections that is not dependent upon search. The aim of this pilot stage of the the project is to provide a working prototype that will demonstrate the feasibility of both.
What do you want to discover today? / Janet Aucock, University of St AndrewsCIGScotland
Overview of resource discovery in libraries today. Presented at the CIG Scotland seminar 'Resource Discovery : from catalogues to discovery services' at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 21st March 2018
The session will present the key findings of a joint
Loughborough University and Taylor & Francis project
looking at postgraduate user experience in the digital
library. Using the findings from ten research students’
diaries collected over an eight-month period, we will focus
on the findings as they relate to the academic journal and
article including: evaluating different publishers’ platforms
and their UX; identifying the approaches and skills needed
in identifying papers relevant for their research; and
approaches to storing papers.
The University of Hertfordshire (UH) implemented a new
commercial Resource Discovery Service at the same time as it
changed to the Koha Open Source Library Management System. In doing so it moved away from using Google Scholar, as its main platform, at a time when many universities are deciding to only use Google Scholar. Hear about the debate between commercial and non-commercial services and why UH made the decisions it did. After 18 months was it the right decision? What has been the impact on library services and library users?
Plenary sessions: the power of digital for change - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
With Dr Paul Feldman, chief executive, Jisc, Professor David Maguire, chair, Jisc, Professor Andrew Harrison, professor of practice at University of Wales Trinity St David and director, Spaces That Work Ltd, Professor Donna Lanclos, associate professor for anthropological research, UNC Charlotte
This presentation was provided by Jack Maness of the University of Denver during the NISO Virtual Conference, That Cutting Edge: Technology's Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library, held on October 24, 2018.
Providing accessible content can be a costly and timeconsuming
activity for individual libraries who have a legal and
ethical duty to support their students who have disabilities. As
access to online content has grown and funding for support
diminished, libraries are increasingly looking to the benefits
of using their collective effort to assess accessibility of thirdparty
content and then work with publishers and other suppliers
to find solutions. The session will set the scene and provide
some case studies from UK universities that show how we
are supporting students with disabilities in their use of library
content. Libraries have been working individually and collectively
to raise the topic of accessibility with publishers and vendors,
many of whom have engaged with their
customers. In some cases quite simple changes to
publisher platforms can produce effective changes. In others
a much greater investment is needed. The speakers will use
their own experience to outline this topic which we hope will be
relevant to librarians, publishers, system vendors and others.
Janette Burke, Monash University, explores the shift to e, and it doesn't just stand for electronic but engaging, exciting, embracing change, enabling learning.
This workshop will explore the skill sets for scholarly
communication including questions about future
requirements, the language we are using in this space and,
beyond skills, what type of people are suited to different
aspects of librarianship. Scholarly communication requires
people who are able to be flexible in their approach, rather
than ‘rule followers’, which may mean a fundamental shift
in the library workforce into the future. Working collectively,
the session will consider the implications for upskilling our
‘legacy’ workforce.
Open access, universities as publishers - Jisc Digital Festival 2015Jisc
This session focussed on areas where universities are (re)discovering roles, especially in the area of book publishing. Participants will be provided with evidence to help them consider this role for universities as publishers and its implications for them.
Introduction to the Oxford Collections Visualization ProjectChristine Madsen
The overall goals of this project are 1) to provide an overall visualization of all the collections at Oxford that are available to students, faculty, and staff without having to create item-level metadata for everything; 2) to provide a new and innovative type of resource discovery for Oxford’s collections that is not dependent upon search. The aim of this pilot stage of the the project is to provide a working prototype that will demonstrate the feasibility of both.
What do you want to discover today? / Janet Aucock, University of St AndrewsCIGScotland
Overview of resource discovery in libraries today. Presented at the CIG Scotland seminar 'Resource Discovery : from catalogues to discovery services' at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 21st March 2018
Rebecca Grant DAH Research Presentationdri_ireland
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Research in the Digital Age symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 14 July, 2015. The presentation gives an overview of some of the key concepts and drivers in research data management for the arts and humanities, and introduces the Digital Repository of Ireland as potential place of deposit for such data.
The Evolving Collection and Shift to OpenLynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Cathy King. 2020. “The Evolving Collection and Shift to Open.” Presented at the Research Information Exchange, February 14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
This presentation was provided by Jane Burke of ProQuest and Serials Solutions, during the NISO/BISG 4th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape, held on June 25, 2010.
Jisc, the Wellcome Library, and non UK universities and professional societies, have been working on a three-year large-scale digitisation project of more than 15 million pages of 19th century published works, resulting in the UK Medical Heritage Library, a valuable resource for the exploration of medical humanities.
I hosted a live lab day on the 26th October, with researchers and developers, at the Wellcome Library, to look at how this resource can be developed. These are the results of the discussion.
Web-Scale Discovery: Post ImplementationRachel Vacek
Discovery services provide users a single
search box to access a library’s entire prei-ndexed collection. Representatives from
two academic libraries serving different
user populations will discuss marketing,
instructing users, evaluating the product,
and maintaining the resource after a
discovery service is implemented
Presentation given in May, 2017, at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Previous project presentations were given at the University of Oslo Law Library, Humanities and Social Science Library, Science Library and Medical Library, and in various other meetings. For some animated content, download the original Powerpoint presentation.
Data-Informed Decision Making for Digital ResourcesChristine Madsen
This session will provide three case studies of assessment and evaluation programs in libraries--one past, one current, and one future. The cases use three different modes of data gathering and analysis and show the power of understanding user needs and how well your organization is meeting them.
Data-Informed Decision Making for Libraries - Athenaeum21Megan Hurst
Athenaeum21 presents three case studies of assessment and evaluation programs in libraries--one past, one current, and one future. The cases use three different modes of data gathering and analysis to show the power of understanding user needs and how well your organization is meeting them.
Are Digital Humanities Projects Sustainable? A Proposed Service Model for a D...Christine Madsen
Many universities are facing difficult choices about how to sustain, preserve, and/or archive their (often) hundreds of digital humanities (DH) projects that have reached the conclusion of their funding or support. In 2018, Athenaeum21 carried out an in-depth analysis of the functional requirements of DH projects at the University of Oxford. This included extensive interviews with DH project leads, followed by technical and functional analysis for more than 30 DH projects.
Our research has uncovered a more robust and detailed picture of how both active and retired DH projects differ from the most common research data management and preservation models, and of their unique technical sustainability and preservation issues. In response to these diverse needs, we propose a layered service model for creating a sustainable digital humanities technology infrastructure. Breaking down the functional requirements into “layers” acknowledges the differing life cycles of different technologies and allows for the potential of a distributed, organization-wide solution.
Digital Strategy Environmental Scan for the Concordia University Digital Stra...Christine Madsen
Starting with a definition of “digital strategy” (“a plan of action for the adoption of institutional processes and practices to transform the organization and culture to effectively and competitively function in an increasingly digital world”), this report provides examples of successful practices undertaken by organizations actively managing digital transformation in Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as examples of so-called “failure.” The answers as to why digital strategies succeed or fail are complex, but all hinge on six key elements that A21 identified during the research phase: People, Culture, Leadership, Organizational Alignment, followed by Data, and Technology.
Athenaeum21 was engaged by Concordia University in April 2018 and has undertaken this work for their Digital Strategy Committee who have been charged “to determine what actions we need to take to become a next-generation university that embraces the digital reality of our students, faculty, researchers, staff and life in general.”
The Future of Finding, for the Digital Humanities Workshop at OxfordChristine Madsen
Good resource discovery tools are not simply about making research easier and faster, but about facilitating the creation, preservation and discovery of knowledge by enabling new modes of research, especially across disciplines. In 2014 the University of Oxford began a robust and unique program of activities to improve discovery of and access to its intellectual assets: garden, museum and library collections, open educational resources and research outputs and data. With over 100 libraries, five museums, botanic gardens and an arboretum at the University, Oxford has been working to find world-leading solutions for connecting students and researchers at Oxford (and abroad) with the collections that are available to them. The University also aimed to make its resources more findable by the wider community, to increase engagement with its world-class collections and research. A year-long research study revealed the nuances of why incoming researchers and students struggle to find relevant collections and found that simply providing better search tools across existing metadata will not improve the situation. Therefore, the University has set out to scope entirely new approaches discovery, exploring new tools and approaches to enable students and researchers at Oxford and abroad to understand the scope of collections held by the University and to find them quickly and efficiently. A current project seeks to create an innovative working prototype that balances users’ needs for cognitive maps against wide-ranging types, and robustness, of data.
Linking the Strategic with the Micro: A Survey of the Assessment Landscape in...Christine Madsen
Between 2015 and 2017, the presenters have interviewed more than 75 library directors and leaders, library assessment practitioners, and academic experts on four continents about library assessment and its current state in their institutions. The results reveal a varied landscape, with libraries in widely varying stages of assessment performance and readiness. This paper will draw a picture of the current landscape of library assessment based on the data gathered in these interviews. The authors will focus specifically on the continuum between micro and strategic assessment and share the lessons learned from diverse institutions and geographies about how to build a culture of assessment.
Assessing the Impact of the Library in the Research EcosystemChristine Madsen
Libraries play an increasingly comprehensive role in the research lifecycle, yet metrics and measures (both qualitative and quantitative) that illustrate the fundamental role and impact of the library in research still need to be developed. Research libraries need first to define the values by which they want to be measured, rather than trying to manifest those values from the data that they have traditionally collected. To this end, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) underwent a visioning process for its assessment program between February and October 2017. The goal of this project was to develop a forward-looking program that advances the organizational outcomes of the 21st century research library. One result of the visioning process was a clearly elaborated need for research libraries to demonstrate their function in advancing and collaborating in the research enterprise. Rather than trying to define “impact” and “value” independently, the new ARL assessment program will set the context for understanding and communicating the stories of the research library to external stakeholders and provide the tools for members to tell this story locally. At the heart of this work is a framework that aims to draw a map of the landscape of services and functions provided across all research libraries. The comprehensive framework, and proposed new data points, will help research libraries translate their values into measures. The presenters will demonstrate how this collaboratively developed (and evolving) framework paints a map of the research library assessment landscape and how it will be used to understand and measure the role of the library in supporting institutional missions.
Sue Baughman - ARL
Christine Madsen & Megan Hurst - Athenaeum21
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
Library Futures & the Importance of Understanding Communities of UsersChristine Madsen
In 2010 I finished a two year ethnographic study of that aimed at understanding how the digitization of rare texts is changing scholars’ work and in turn how it is changing their relationship with the library. I will present some highlights from the findings of that research and discuss more recent research to understand the future of libraries by understanding communities of users. In other words, what can we learn from Tibetan Buddhists, the Parakuyo Maasai, and the CTOs of our top technology companies about how to build the library of the future?
This presentation was the 2013 Breslauer Lecture at UCLA GSEIS.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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The Future of Finding at the University of Oxford: CNI Fall 2016
1. CNI Fall 2016 Membership Meeting
12-13 December 2016
Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries
Christine Madsen, Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Athenaeum21
The Future of Finding
at the University of Oxford
2. Outline:
1. Why are we doing this?
2. The Resource Discovery review
3. The Oxford Collections Visualization tool
3. Collection Size Digital metadata record Digitised resource
Ashmolean 1,000,000 330,000 36% 60,000 6%
Oxford Botanic Garden 30,000 7,500 25% 7,500 25%
Museum of the History of
Science
45,000 40,000 89% 8,000 18%
Museum of Natural History 6,250,000 152,000 2.4% 15,000 0.24%
Pitt Rivers Museum 650,000 430,000 65% 240,000 35%
Bodleian Library Published
(Print+Electronic)
12,000,000 12,000,000 100% 1.5M 12%
Bodleian Special
Collections
18 kilometres ? 48% ? ?
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21. Outline:
1. Why are we doing this?
2. The Resource Discovery review
3. The Oxford Collections Visualization tool
22. The Resource Discovery Review
1. What we did
2. What we found out
3. How we tried to solve 1 key issue
23. Resource Discovery: What We Did
106 interviews, 18 site visits, 3 literature reviews
38 Interviews with users of collections around Oxford
30 Interviews with collection ‘experts’ (representing all collections)
22 Interviews with external institutions (including 11 site visits)
16 Interviews with vendors/suppliers
7 Site visits to Oxford libraries and museums to observe researchers
3 Literature reviews
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Analysis across all data
24. Final Report Available Online
Bodleian.ox.ac.uk
>>About Us
>>Policies and Reports
Or
Athenaeum21.com
25. What We Found
Search behaviour & skills at Oxford are:
• about training people to become expert in their field, rather than finding things
in the collections
• very discipline-specific. This is not a matter of Google vs the Catalogue
• while there is evidence that students need to learn how to search, discovery is
not as simple as ‘novice’ vs ‘expert’. Experts in their fields use some of the the
same discovery tools and techniques as young students when they switch to a
new discipline or are looking for something specific
• as much about knowing who to ask as it is about looking for something specific
• still a very ‘analogue’ process for many collections and disciplines
26. What We Found
Search behaviour & skills at Oxford are not:
• tied to a specific discovery tool – Google is heavily used, but by no means
universal
• correlated to a specific discipline – ‘digital natives’ are universally bad at
searching regardless of their field
Outside of Oxford
• Vendors are eager to partner with their customers because they don’t know
what to do next
• Academic and cultural institutions outside of Oxford are largely in the same place:
not satisfied with their current discovery tools and looking for what is next
27. 3 Recommended Areas for Investment
1. Map the landscape of things
2. Map the network of people
3. Save people time
28. Save People Time
• Getting existing metadata out to the places where
researchers work: Wikipedia/Wikidata, Google, Google
Scholar, subject-specific repositories like arXiv and
PubMed, publishers like JSTOR
• Facilitate citation chaining. Citation chaining is ubiquitous
in all areas of research across all disciplines and levels of
expertise. Users use cited references as authoritative
points of departure for finding more resources on a topic.
3. Save People Time
29. • Visualization of the network of experts and research. A
graph of the professional networks at Oxford would
facilitate discovery and navigation within and between
fields. (NB: a number of institutions have attempted this
with varying degrees of success. Care should be taken to
learn lessons from others’ successes and failures.)
2. Map the Network of People
30. Map the Landscape of ThingsOrienting the users to the corpora of collections (digital
and non-digital) by:
1. Visualizing the scope of collections at Oxford: providing
an interactive diagram that represents the range of
collections at Oxford (using collection-level metadata).
2. Cross-Collection Search: Overlaying this diagram with the
ability to search within or across collections. In such a
context, researchers will understand not only what they
are finding, but what they might be missing.
1. Map the Landscape of Things
31. Collection Size Digital metadata record Digitised resource
Ashmolean 1,000,000 330,000 36% 60,000 6%
Oxford Botanic Garden 30,000 7,500 25% 7,500 25%
Museum of the History of
Science
45,000 40,000 89% 8,000 18%
Museum of Natural History 6,250,000 152,000 2.4% 15,000 0.24%
Pitt Rivers Museum 650,000 430,000 65% 240,000 35%
Bodleian Library Published
(Print+Electronic)
12,000,000 12,000,000 100% 1.5M 12%
Bodleian Special
Collections
18 kilometres ? 48% ? ?
34. “It's clear that reasonably diligent students are
strikingly not sophisticated in their searching.
Students search in one place, and if they don't find
anything on the first try, they think it doesn’t exist.”
The Project: Why
35. Map the Landscape of Things• We know what can be done with lots of
metadata…
The Challenge
41. Map the Landscape of Things• We know what can be done with lots of
metadata…
• But what can you do without it?
The Challenge
42. Map the Landscape of ThingsCreate a map of all of the museum and library collections at
Oxford
• Interactive visual navigation of Oxford’s collections
• Regardless of whether they have metadata
Build something that is beautiful, easy to use and transports
the user into the world of Oxford’s collections
• Like a Google maps of Oxford collections
The Project: Mapping the Collections
43. • Dependent upon item-level metadata
• Will only ever include ’catalogued’ things
• “How is this thing I have found related to other
things in the collections”
How does
this project
relate to
other efforts
like linked
data?
• Assumes users have little or no prior knowledge of
collections
• Is NOT dependent upon item-level metadata
• Will display collections that have no metadata
• “What does Oxford have that is relevant to my
research?”
A Supplement – Not a Substitute
44. The Project: Target Audience
“what collections are at Oxford that might be
useful for my research?”
• Many incoming researchers are spending 1-2 years just
finding their primary resources
“I know these things exist, why aren’t I getting any
search results?”
• Most researchers have no idea the scale of what is
catalogued electronically or not
45. The Project: Deliverables
1. A working demonstrator, that is, an elegant, visualization design that
leverages real data (a subset of the available data) with minimum
intervention. The prototype will be user-tested and will help to
illustrate the feasibility and scalability of the approach.
2. A plan for gathering summary data to provide complete coverage of
Oxford’s collections
3. A detailed plan and budget to develop the project into a second
phase with a broader partnership
46. The Prototype: What Will it Do?
provide an immediate visual guide to:
• what exists at Oxford and where it is held;
• relative sizes of different types of collections;
• which collections are findable/searchable electronically;
• which collections are catalogued in print indices; and
• which are not yet catalogued.
47. The Prototype: How was it built?
Data from two sources:
• Existing electronic metadata from museums and libraries
through batch exports
• Data will be analysed and summarised to provide the highest level of navigation
• Collection summary data for collections that do not have
item-level electronic metadata through interviews and
spreadsheets
• Every collection curator or manager at the University has a good sense of what
is in their collection. Much of this summary level data already exists in
spreadsheets
48. The User Journey
• Users will not start from a search term
• Journey may end in a detailed metadata record, digital
object, or contact information for a collection manager
• The visual navigation should uncover the unexpected --
that the Bodleian has art or that the Pitt Rivers has
manuscripts
54. What Have we Accomplished
• First version of a demonstrator
• But it doesn’t quite do what we want it to do
• Much better understanding of the problem
• Scale of the metadata issue
• Problems with visualization
• New design ideas
• More data analysis
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64. The Issues
• Requires too much interaction before understanding
• Does not display enough information
• Relies too much on text
• Users get lost
Next Steps
• Analysis of data
• More design options
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75. “If I get dropped into the middle of the landscape, I
can deduce where I am and navigate my way out,
whereas my students will latch on to the first tree that
looks interesting.”
76. Lessons Learned
• There is a place for visualisation and a place for search
• No way around creating metadata
• Whatever you do is going to take a lot of work
• Off the shelf packages don’t seem so terrible
• Data visualization vs info visualization
• Tolerance for abstraction
• Data analysis versus simple visualisation
• If you want something to be design-led, hold off on data