I recently attended the Museums & the Web 2009 conference in Indianapolis, IN. Prof. Mike Twidale and I were there to do a live patchwork prototyping demo of the IMLS DCC Collection Dashboard concept. We had a great crowd of attendees in our booth who provided us with lots of great ideas for next steps [...]
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The State Library of Ohio recently added Opening History to the Ohio Digital and Special Collections section of the State Library website.
See their press release for more information about Ohio’s involvement in Opening History.
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The IMLS Digital Collections and Content Interface research group is kicking off a new line of inquiry this week that will explore how we might build a “Collections Dashboard” for the DCC.
The Problem
According to user studies that we’ve conducted, users rarely find the full-text collection descriptions that we provide very helpful. The long screens [...]
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