| Gary Marchionini | |
| INLS 357 |
Goal: Improve BLS Web-based Dissemination: 1996-2003
| 1996-7 Needs assessment (w/Carol Hert, Anita Komlodi) | ||
| Interviews (in house, external) | ||
| Email content analysis | ||
| Transactions and query log analysis | ||
| User-task taxonomy | ||
| 1997-8 UI mockups based on taxonomy, continued needs assessment (Anita Komlodi) | ||
| 1998-9 Relation Browser prototype and usability study (Ben Brunk, Anita Komlodi) | ||
| 1999-2000 Relation Browser field test; RAVE extension (Ben Brunk) | ||
| 2000-01 Replication of needs assessments and extensions to RAVE (Ben Brunk) | ||
| 2001-03 Evolution of RB database (Ben Brunk, Junliang Zhang) | ||
| Minimize clicks to target | |
| Treasures to the surface | |
| User centered vocabulary | |
| 25K pages and content management | |
| Academic-Agency partnership model | |
| See Interactions (2003) paper: Digital Government Information Services: The Bureau of Labor Statistics Case. http://ils.unc.edu/~march/interactions_paper03.pdf | |
| See JASIST (2002) paper: Co-evolution of user and organizational interfaces: A longitudinal case study of WWW dissemination of national statistics. http://ils.unc.edu/~march/jasist_BLS_submit.pdf | |
Information Life Cycle with Feedback Channels
| See http://squash.ils.unc.edu/rave/ | |
| See Towards a General Relation Browser: A GUI for Information Architects http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Marchionini/ | |
Relation Browser (RAVE) after clicking on Office/Business
Relation Browser (Rave) with results after clicking on Perl
EIA renewables and usage results
EIA renewables and usage with ‘wind’ text search
| Continue to generalize RB | ||
| Integrate browse and search | ||
| Database mappings | ||
| Develop automatic techniques for acquiring data | ||
| Develop automatic techniques for new ways to slice and dice and provide alternative views | ||