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User Centric Design and Implementation of Digital Historic Costume Collections

User Centric Design and Implementation of Digital Historic Costume Collections. Kathi Martin Xia Lin Lois Lunin Drexel University. Design for Users. It’s an evolutionary prototype driven by Analysis of user's needs Expert’s heuristics evaluation

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User Centric Design and Implementation of Digital Historic Costume Collections

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  1. User Centric Design and Implementationof Digital Historic Costume Collections Kathi Martin Xia Lin Lois Lunin Drexel University

  2. Design for Users • It’s an evolutionary prototype driven by • Analysis of user's needs • Expert’s heuristics evaluation • Increasing functionality for better user experience • Feedback from real users • Curator • Scholars and teachers (who use the site for class instructions) • Students

  3. Design for Good User Experience • Consistent navigational structures • multiple entries for searching • Easy-to-use runway for picture browsing • QTVR movies for 3-D viewing • QTVR zoom-in to view details • Panoramic movies for Digital Gallery

  4. Design to Add Values • Started as a digital archival project • Expanded to enrich user experience with archival collections • Expanded to improve good practice of archiving • use a thesaurus • implement a workflow process • open the archive to OAI protocols

  5. Design with Quality • Quality is the #1 factor for attracting users to digital archives • The nature of the collection requires high-quality graphics • High-resolution 360° photos • Zoom-in detail photos • Follow standards • for image resolutions • Image dimensions • file Formats and sizes • Keep an uncompressed TIFF format.

  6. Design with Standards • ICOM guidelines for photographing Historic Costume • ICOM -- The International Council of Museums • MOAC archival image standards • MOAC -- Museum Online Archive California • Digital Library Federation guidelines on images and image quality. • OAI-PMH -- The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

  7. Design with Portability • Use open-source software/platform • Linux server • RESIN application server • MySQL database • Java/JavaScript coding • Port to Windows without any major changes • QTVR movies require a plug-in.

  8. Design for Extendibility • Flexible database structures • Browser-based Management system • Managing the collection • Data entry • Add/delete pictures/photos • Creating indexing • Managing the thesaurus • OAI compatible

  9. Design with Collaboration • Collaboration between domain specialists, IT specialists, and information scientists. • Collaboration to outside experts in the field • Collaboration of students majored in Information systems, Library and Information Science, and Fashion Design.

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