INLS 180 Day 10 Notes

9/25/02

 

  1. one-min papers
    1. Point

            Start with user needs in doing design

            There are many techniques used in needs assessments

            Importance of crawlers in today’s web

    1. Questions

Which will win, crawl-based indexing or metadata harvesting ?

Were the LC & BLS projects research or requested by agencies?

How to get from needs assessment to design and implementation (several) [today’s examples]

Why aren’t we digitizing all those boxes at LC? NARA? Etc.?  [sheer volume]

How do we know that user analysis improves design? [Shneiderman vs Negroponte]

User need specifies gaps in user’s understanding vs gaps in what system can offer?

Crawlers in the future?

Examples of topic-specific collections? [NSDL]

 

  1. Reading discussion : Dervin & Nilan [Phillips]

 

  1. Demos of interfaces based on needs assessments
    1. LC  many diverse collections, get an overview, distinguish collections http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ndl/ndl_secure/draft11/home9.html
    2. BLS:  user type/task matrix; partition the types of resources http://ils.unc.edu/~march/blsreport98/final_report.html (prototypes in appendices)
    3. FedStats alternative site map http://squash.ils.unc.edu/bls4/bls.html

 

4. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?