[CODE4LIB] Who is working on METS Viewer applications

2009-09-17 Thread Repke de Vries
Dear Code4Lib Community read the METS based OpenMIC - OpenWMS announcement (July 9th) with great interest. It points at a need beyond METS creation and that is METS Viewers for end users: who in the CODE4LIB community is working on METS Viewer applications ? Here is an example of what

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread susan teague rector
I second David's book choice - I've done 3 redesigns at my library (we're on the 3rd right now) and i have referred to the process in this book countless times. I typically follow an iterative approach to writing and executing my project plans; however, it's difficult to get away from

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread Beth Black
Hello! I agree with others who have recommended Jesse James Garrett's work. We are in the roll-out phase of our CMS implementation/redesign and I relied heavily on Garrett's book in the early phases. We took an iterative user-focused approach within a broad phased project plan, making sure we

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-17 Thread O.Stephens
You might find the WebCite service [1] to be of some use. Thanks - I'll have a look (although obviously Mike's experience is worrying) Of course it cannot work retroactively, so it is best if researchers use it in the first place. It seems the number of our authors/researchers using

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread Rosalyn Metz
Susan and Beth, I'd love to see a project plan and/or write up if you have one. I'm really curious how people handle the gathering information piece and balance staff v. user perspectives. And I'm sure as I begin actually writing a plan I'll be curious about many of the other things people did.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: ...staff v. user perspectives... Boy, if staff versus user perspectives is not an issue, then I don't know what is! -- Eric Morgan University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread Susan Teague Rector
Great - will email you separately as I'm not sure I can send attachments to the listserv(?) cheers, susan Rosalyn Metz wrote: Susan and Beth, I'd love to see a project plan and/or write up if you have one. I'm really curious how people handle the gathering information piece and balance

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread Susan Teague Rector
Oh, I forgot to mention (Eric's post just reminded me of this) that I've found user testing to be the best way to balance that staff v. user perspective issue. You probably already know this, but I thought I'd at least throw it out there. Even if you do guerilla user testing, at least you have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Who is working on METS Viewer applications

2009-09-17 Thread Bess Sadler
Hi, Repke, Many of the digital objects [1] visible through VirgoBeta [2], which is an installation of Blacklight [3], are stored as METS. For each METS file we index the relevant parts in solr, and we have a middleware application that can easily grab relevant bits of it for re-

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-17 Thread Max L. Wilson
Hey, I'd like to recommend this assessment tool (here's a 3 pager about it): http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17585/1/jcdl09_lightweighteval_mwilson.pdf It allows you to analyse re-designs from a series of different user perspectives. The paper is from a lightweight eval workshop at the

[CODE4LIB] JOB POSTING: Information Designer/E-Content Manager (Greater DC Metro)

2009-09-17 Thread Patty De Anda
Library Associates Companies (LAC) seeks for *immediate consideration* candidates for the position of Information Designer/E-Content Manager for a position in the greater DC metro area. The Information Designer/E-Content Manager will assist with implementing usability and access to digital