Yes, it is all about You: User Needs, Archaeology and Digital Data Eric Kansa UC Berkeley School of Information Unless otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> Sarah Whitcher Kansa The Alexandria Archive Institute
User Needs, Archaeology and Digital Data
Dec 15, 2014
Presentation given at the 2009 Society for American Archaeology meeting in Atlanta. Online publication with a very similar discussion to accompany these slides can be found here: http://csanet.org/newsletter/spring09/nls0902.html
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Yes, it is all about You: User Needs, Archaeology and Digital Data
Eric KansaUC Berkeley School of Information
Unless otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>
Sarah Whitcher KansaThe Alexandria Archive Institute
Orientation of Web ResourcesOrientation of Web Resources
Difficult
General / shallow
Specific / depth
Easy
Easy Difficult
General / shallow
Specific / depth
Orientation of Web ResourcesOrientation of Web Resources
Easy Difficult
General / shallow
Specific / depth
Most archaeological databases
Most archaeological databases
Orientation of Web ResourcesOrientation of Web Resources
Easy Difficult
General / shallow
Specific / depth
Most archaeological databases
Most archaeological databases
??
Orientation of Web ResourcesOrientation of Web Resources
A “good” user experience: – Appealing– Credible– Easy to use– Relevant
Studying User NeedsStudying User Needs
Image by Jeff Kubina via Flickr (CC-by license) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/kubina/296367267/>
- Free, open access
- Open source- Citable- Stable URLs- All media &
data linked- CC licenses- Export / reuse
Open Context DevelopmentOpen Context Development
2006
2007
2008
2009+
Validation of Data Model, initial content
(10 project / collections)
Open Context DevelopmentOpen Context Development
2006
2007
2008
2009+
Enhance performance,
interoperability (RESTful services), additional content
(2007 NEH award)
Open Context DevelopmentOpen Context Development
2006
2007
2008
2009+
Expand content, demonstrate
distributed services, iterative design with
researchers
(2008 NEH/IMLS award)
What Users WantWhat Users Want
A typical user community…A typical user community…
(1) People, places, things
(2) >50% “other”
What are people looking for? Are they finding it?
Is there something we can do about this?
What do Users Want?What do Users Want?
• Whole project approach• Literature, esp. gray• Regional exploration• Field system
What do Users Want?What do Users Want?
• Whole project approach• Literature, esp. gray• Regional exploration• Field system
ComprehensiveComprehensive
EfficientEfficient
Faceted Browse Faceted Browse
• Search results summarized as facets to guide exploration
• Stable URI for every item to citable human-readable version and also machine-readable version (Atom + ArchaeoML)
Mashups for CooperationMashups for Cooperation
• Atom web services for data portability, distributed search, aggregation
Special ThanksSpecial Thanks
University of Chicago: OCHRE Project
Doris and Donald Fisher
Internet Archive (media repository services)
The United States National Endowment The United States National Endowment for the Humanitiesfor the Humanities
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