Ja. Okay. So,
to the on talking about some of the third process is
we went through in a redesign of our digital collections.
Remote to talking about Arjects today and not top level pages for the sacred time.
And there we some level the code arguments some charts,
lots a screenshots and fotos from User Design Sessions.
We weren three sites. The get wait a ocle hammer history,
the Unity digital library and the part of the texas history.
The digital library is our institutional repository and also has system US-Garer in documents.
And the other two sites are mostly cultural heardigmenterials and our
sources for the national digital nations paper problem.
The underlying technology stack includes pipeline,
Jengo and Solar and few of their eference,
which I don't way have a time to talk about too
much tay
Editor is use a web inifaced create method ada and a
scame a based on double core. Und so for us
, DC Fields can be qualified. So for instance,
creator is come to be dos can have role,
like for target for our performer.
And they were in extent, the DC Fields with several
others are owned out device for toddle 201.
We got a great links in the Editor to normalize and
valuate inputs and score record completely.
But I will be show in you not of that day.
Because I'm talking about our people. As a result there
are two 55 million ideams, not pages in our systems.
And they're spread across about a fels and different collections.
And at a our addity by our 450 different partners from across,
the couple of different states.
As you can see we're bit top happy in newspapers
in fotographs
That there are about have no million of other resource types as well.
A word about our content organization. Each odject is represent
it buy an archive denifire. And cannow multiple file
type representations or manifestations. When then each of these,
there can be one or more file set, representing a single page
or sound recording or PDF-File. As you can see from
the chart at the left, most items had a single manifestation,
maybe to in the example on the right,
we see a presentation like the one I'm giving you now.
It has four manifestations, the first in Primary is person
10 file sets, at 10 different eRLs,
one for each slide or page,
a second manifest has a single file set,
a PDF-Version,
and then the 30 4th are parapoint and open-office-documents respectively
Falls er Range inside Arjects verries wibly,
with the short is being one fire long and the long ist,
a old scan that said with 18.000 Patriots.
The way did everage for Idams and Assistants is about 15,
but it very by resourced type.
Newspapers are that 10 Paters on everage, report 62.
And TCs in distrucations 100 in 62 on 126 on everage,
we do have one that like 1.000 Paters,
I hit to be that reader.
Fing we can said to the shape of our method at
it when we talk about the design.
The number of method out of fields on a regor can impact,
how we template that information. We need to be a
where what a zero about you an areacord can a should
look like we say, do we heide completely,
or do we confess ignorance and actually just print unknown.
At the same time nose to our eddditors are pretty sensible and how the
create mediate other records, but I've you are very ever those.
We are the loven items with 140, 7 Creators,
25 with 15 coverage fields, and one land some
records with 10,7 subjects. So,
bevor we redesigned we had some questions of our older inface,
can use use makes not judgments about to this content from
what they see on the screen right there.
That's our brief record, to tell the user,
the essentials, or get them to auternative manifestations if
we have them
We like most only show thannels of the friend of odjects.
But isn't that at the service the coins, foodows,
letters, and postcards? Cut we improve the enevigation of the side.
As you can see we are ministect for us on the
layers and and we had one on the right side,
which 20 of eye-Trucking-Studies, basically say, don't do,
because of answer.
We had the full matter that a record behind it help,
was not a good idea. Was looping through the
deblin core feels energiant, table the best weekend do.
This are only a few the issues we consettered.
So let's to how we think about our users
I'm make in confession, we don't do real usability steadies.
Getting the qualitative that that you do in that kind
of a steady is really difficult and quite frankly,
I don't want to do without institutional IRB,
just take to run to do.
But there is a welt of information out there that we can take it vanager of not glee,
there are are reports or news in Norman Group,
that are just excellent at like 150 bucks each,
that like everyone should have.
That talk about users and how the actually use systems.
And is we hadn't keynote, really today,
we may piece we with the effected Amazon,
set standards, years ago, and it just,
it's of liberated
us in a
lot of ways
So what we do, we build personals.
The group one up there is to see on screen, should
look for me to most everyone here. You have a
group of 18, 24 or olds and then I smaller
cadray and researchers and specials to real faculty.
And as that assources, we have a scaliably works library
and ALDAs on with the DCs and Disrotation up is to takes to these source people.
And represpect us. But because I respect our collections contains
so many primary source materials, we have to also consider children and learn teachers.
And especially a older fox, people world Adres,
who are really instanted and a lay history and genialty.
And so that has effects on,
how we think about the way the interface is protrade,
we cannot design for special as a long the language that
we use has to be simpler than I think most of us really want to do.
So how do we know about these people?
We take to them. We have a large step in
my office and a number of us,
speak to genial logical and storaculation seciations every year and large
fox come up to as interactor as attor as all time.
We also I feel bad forms,
we are about printing and seeming assues through that,
requests for high resolution capis.
And large stories about people's grant others. Prior to redesign,
we only had links in our future for vox to
get in contact with us
And then we integrated, I have doesn't big colorful buttons
with the content to the feedback form in our redesign with
a green line happens. And I think it's with considering,
how much more talking we get at that simple design decision.
We even Chris, we can said it social media user behavior.
We periodically serve Twitter, read it,
YouTube-Sitations and how the cars viral specs in our users enge.
So the picture you see is a guy putting meltings and in some water.
And he side it eye report in our repository,
and things to that sitation, there's been 16.000 users of that very our today.
The large spikes it you see advatom,
are are a lotly things to reddit, people,
finding random posts in our system,
but they think enshing
Based on Feedback Responses, we've also discerdent that a small
personally ardience once to reproduce or discuss licensing vidams,
but they really are sure where to start or who do talk to.
But we didn't talk about that in our all design,
just in a very sort of at rereviated it's simple form
that's or it made sense to us as a librarions.
We've course need a becargins and of our legal and every requirements to words of the blind,
the death and other users with accessibility needs.
So what responsibilities to we have have does it end at the templated in der Face,
or is it experience to the repartitory content itself?
It's the latter. And we know we are going to
fail here here and like really,
really hard and it's going to be an expensive fail,
if someone cases on it.
So hack we do so
with grace
Ähm, Place-Matters. Are users of spread across the globe,
as you can see from the tart map.
And we can to soon they know where things are.
The foto at right is Texas is fairly well,
now in a art installation catter like ranch.
Hands, there's anyone every seen that before.
If you, okay. So, if, like,
it's sort of empath of the ass someone to like,
look at that thing on a map.
So, why don't we just do that for the mass best we can?
And there's a whole bands of other percent that just don't have time for and slides,
but the steff it our contributing institutions,
there users two in a difference out of way,
they need to be all the report on the users ages in collections,
we have brandwriters and agencies,
we make a words,
based now what they seen are collections,
the others in a collections really have fleck
For a lack of a better world vanidy needs, this system, like
no how many times people or looking at their content.
In then there is the librarians and digital humanists and other
parties you just like play with a dotter.
So we need to consider all these sorts of fox.
To look at their behaviors like many, we use Google Analytics,
but institute just like caping in pasting the drive script code,
the day, view, we make excitents of use of eventuracting,
custom the mentions in campagn, your rells.
We have serve virtually every button click or link like in the system,
when I don't types or view, we know the inbound
pats from sharing links or from our other discovery layers,
because we take on next or your rell preameters.
And so over time,
wherey will the sea patterns of usage and findings the seem to be
messt or get and get a better sense of how the
system is used in the real world and a politics,
but the code there, but that's when in the deadlics like.
And Andalytics is in perfect the course, we know miss is information.
So we don't actually see users actually intent and how there
really matter at this for not being able find something.
We know it undercounts, based stuff of direct access of
PDFs and increasingly for the youngfolks use content blockers in their mobile devices,
we can't actually see them.
And of course, there's privacy concerns.
But we can see how things in the digital library,
the greenbar and it's academic focus content, drabbath over the ages.
Where as in the Texas History,
with it's more cultural hard it, and genial latschal related,
information growth with Age, and to you to us 65,
I don't know have a people actually 5. We note things like deviceizes,
and that wow mobles important large managers, and genet redney desktops,
are still a major access method for us.
In these that's help pain pictures in informed design decisions, for example.
We have a significant number of all the rise view en our streams.
And so we need we were found sizes. So like the
different size and finds and libraries like bootstrapped of foundation,
don't like cut it,
they came out like 14 pixels per interest that
And we are actually bunker up to about 2022.
Similarly in eurer initial redesign, we upted for a 100
% responsive ness of like all kind in the side.
And this work great for awile in the in Apple came out with its IMAC,
that had the redney display and of you other vendors came
out mahined that the same thing.
And boy that those images get really, really big,
really quickly and really paxawaited. So we astereliered that was wise
the hype the full metter that record and the result to work can sidering,
other 2,27 million views of Orjects and the one year before are are redesign,
90,5 % of page viewers, never saw the full metter that are record.
So indexing aside that seems like a lot of ways that
ever my our editors
Finally on this point. What just the user unboarding process
actually look like, what is a users homepage,
is it the top level of the side?
No. And that 80% of users land on an Architekt from Samuraels,
never single the homepage, never using our search,
or brownspage, 90% are new,
and they spend lesson fight minutes of time with us.
Most come from Google, and we get far more traffic from
Facebook and Wikipedia at then we do from Scarlier Recites,
like Google Scarlier. And this the Object is the thing
, people see the most and they're went out to the
rest of the side
So, we need to work with some stakeholders together, what we should do?
We did some low fidality work with hose users this teaser
out information about how we could design our susers.
We resined users with representations of ourjects, so basically pitchers of things,
and no matter that it or other context.
And they ask questions about them, writing on post its,
who was this picture. What is this about?
Where is this building? When was this thing published?
And how can I search inside this newspaper, whatever it is?
And so we sort of those things in the groups,
in whiteboard that information? We can sell it out consultate
to all those variations. So like, who is this
for target for and who
was this other
And we make those questions to are metter that affeels and
started to think up some potential innerfacesalmments that we can provide.
And then we did paper prototyping with users.
We simple groups, engave the paper cut outs,
elve example odjects, and we did variant emage sizes,
we gave them secondary filesets.
So like Pages two three 4. And we could out single
metter that affeels and the labels, severitly. We do even UI,
elements, like buttons and search praxis, label than unlabel,
we gave them pence, paper sizers.
And the exercise can sissed it a multiple rounds with
different problems, new metter that affeels,
you get pecture
Es gibt eine large Sheet-Paper,
repräsentiert den Stream und holt die Top-Thirds about the fold.
Und ich denke, die filmen Leute, die sagen,
wenn sie den Stefan des Screens haben, wir haben einen After-Scroll.
Und du kannst das sehen, wie ein Screen-Hotel in Small Navi ist,
aber Results and Pattern-Starting to a merge of with back in for it couple of times.
Fox like the IDF seeing,
but the rector in diversal side of objects and they like
to give a lot of prominence to the odject itself and I think that's a lation,
we should are learn that people don't come for a buildful
metter that at the come for the odject itself.
The assists into we really ensured to related informations well
And so come time for it tour of, äh,
some of the things we said down.
This is likely the first screen to be saying,
it's are our explain, maybe the only one they ever see.
For Machine Crawlers, Crawlers, also Users, we make sure down,
for and then with the codes nippet it the very,
very bodym, this is of the canonical,
you are off it our object.
Even it there are other pages associated with that.
All come back for your pitch of energy.
We provide a short record of the taper pages,
bounting between visual representation of the Orject and that the script of text.
There are bread crimes, market with screen it outwork micro at other.
This helps and wayfinding in Google searchersals, kind of.
And that are getting up to a period collection
If an Idem is part of a series,
we make sure the very top the the user knows at
there's other related items in there and links and to the facetted search for that I don't.
We show of the four sides of an odject and tell the user homily told pages
or files are in that thing. And this makes for these and balance,
doesn't replayer JavaScripts and keeps as a way from the accessibility,
newsability problems of a carsal,
amagine that 18.000 H. Object in a carsal in the performance had to that text on the browser in the server and you get the patreon.
And a few words,
we have a soul a contact section that we tried it to scribe,
what type of odject it is,
who contradiert it and who we are
Here which trying to signal,
we are trying to saw you something at there are no
adds here and it really is not that creepy that we
are the floater of your drain part on the web alliberal game to us.
For the down the page,
after the scroll is are medited at a broken up into,
I who what when where grouping pattern.
So a large who section talks about creators and contributors group by the role qualifier,
but you will never see us says,
this is a creator or a contributor, you are see a fatagraffer
or in author. Publishers and right, holders are also
naturally whose. So they guy a spider miss section.
We unicated a partnering intribution who provided the idem and since
the user muse night nuts to a round for a long,
we pull in the descriptions for a dead base of that
partner is well
And it's also halbsolid of that with search engine automisation.
If we've market something is a primary source,
we trying highlight that for teachers and students,
and it's cust earlier given pointers traffic, we diff pointers to a feedback forms.
We also preful some of the details from this object,
when the actual click on the whole this buttons,
and then also have a few actual available buttons,
if there's a problem with the regard,
they can tell us that the images roadtate or something like that.
If you further scroll, there's a what's action,
that has information about titles, the rescription, subjects,
I denifires, and it's with partners when coach this covery equlections,
in sort of the same way, for relationships,
and still of just showing the identifier,
we pull the titles,
them else and descriptions
from Solar
Ähm, hoffentlich ist es so, dass Sabic like and
gets person instimmen, den actual content and self.
In einer Win-Section has all the date related feels,
date in coverage, what not?
Date, date, date. But importantly,
we use eDTF for a format and doing daten time.
In some times, this codes can be difficult.
So, we will automately rewright those. If we can,
and if we can't will give it nice solid pop up this is,
hey, there's in we are codes here, this is what I mean.
And we're the where section and still just naming classes, we mattern.
So, we will do google maps API look ups for nendplaces,
pin points, place points, in Buckets und finally we overally a clickable
carry mark with KML, since it's one of the fastival fields in or system.
Recent edition is a crowdsourcing project. So using the map,
the user can draw on the map,
we don't know where the location is.
And they can submit to is already formated in DCMI-Bucks or place encodings game.
The corn is like, they think the odject is,
we have this implaced for about year and we had 400 interest added into 2011 a jobscript,
is like that all easier thing ever.
For a professionals entsteht the machine that,
we show some of those links that we're normally be hidden in the head.
So here we provide links to the ERC impressistent statements of our identifiers,
triply eye of manifestation stations of the odjects,
examillion in ardioth representations of our medidaten,
and if you other are links
When it comes time to getting inside objects we perfright clear download instructions,
for PDF and other secondary manifests,
had matter that is Rhythm in DC and Highwire Formats for Google Scollar.
We are model past to the Child Filesets and model links,
buttons and pagnation tools, you get
someone for line page to the next. We are in your
fundails of upcoming pages and instruct user agent to prefect at
coming images, which makes the page load about faster.
We highlight the coornits of maging as see are detect
over emerges, and when the default yellow
highlight in conflicts, with the images background,
we will other the user alternative colors as well
As a can vegans and maybe accessibility, we prolight in Browser,
image minipulation, you using caming to JS.
And this let's the User said, contrast,
sit cituation and of you other levels everything image,
it would give your video,
but it maybe the presentation to big this emitteer.
Holy making blood, emerges and fated text, little more readable.
Thanks to open layers, we provide a full, screen,
zoom, RFAs, to all image based files at this well.
For access, accessibility, we up for a larger finds,
we source order are HTML, we people the interface with out Area,
Attribuce and HTML rolls.
And someone these technologies agreed to Machines,
like Google Indexers
as well
We exposed OCR that it in a couple of ways as
but a path to the long description attribute and is a
machine transcript only images on the same page for users you need that.
One of the news editions is transcriptions in caction files,
but inline and as close cuptions.
And as rinderable as searchable and secret high-demolbal loaded video.
These originate as web VTT-Files and used javis cripte transform
and pretty print than with appliable times thems.
We can support multiple languages, captions,
sort titles and capters at the moment
Because catching is expensive,
and we've only beenable the foreign adding them to a small substant of our materials to far,
we that it simple request captioning links to all even materials,
with single day vendure turn round, it's a workable,
and hopefully reasonal middigation to an excessibility flight that virtually every digital library in the world seffice rum.
Similar, we try to use cypher a catelax peak.
So there is a video, it consumery one knows would be indubbumess.
Yes, 16 MM, yes, as sei.
Silent. So, if you're a screenreader,
it's an off a lot ask sound, like a screenreader,
sort of hearing all those letters outload,
to figure that sort of information out.
So we ring to that
for them
Funkly for Accessibility, we private a new universal link to accessibility page
and which of find, language, ritten for review europe people.
We don't talk about we can guy guy lines or specifications,
it was not ritten for loyers or policy wangs,
it was ritten for the blind and the death.
As shown earlier, we have to get to ask about content
and how can be used? So we provide perfered sitations for those,
who's delict or right to be ographys,
we provide information about capyright restrictions and licensing,
as far as we know it,
when Idem's fall and your something a special licensing,
we gib some guidance and examples, a proper use as well.
And we pride Utilities, a lown users to capy-pace-Code,
in the Wikipedia, message boards,
plats and other CMSs is
For Social Media sites, we haves in buttons, as most people will.
And we also have the matter elements in the head of our documents,
that conformed the Twitter and open graphs, specifications.
We also have into prettle tweets and shares with sims just
a hashtags and titles. Videos can be embedded,
and we will provide the iFrames for that,
and we can do links to times than as well.
We sport support mouth image reprepresentation, images and the presentation APIs,
introply F. And a final few words about Machine that,
we provide skimilar to or JSNLD for allseits organisational information and videos.
And that's about it, because Google doesn't sport I was
anything else other than gather saids in the last couple of minds I think.
And so well, the other types are really finding cool
and probably would had the entering to do. There's not real world epicability yet.
We do how every provide headlings point to are to a browser oneybar
to support organ search. And as lame is it seems,
we have all the goat in place for the very boss
favorite kinds that you have to have,
if you want a mobile device to be olded epennyur,
site in cunter the helm spring
Kind of reduculars, which you ever doing. Finally deep down
with the User Agent in our service are doing our handshaking,
we sport, sign posting, passing information through, H-TB,
link headers, bias, site ass, like to more.
Couple as slides, because privacy is increasingly important,
we try to go web seditions. So we do,
the level little, we use, cookies, dismessible,
it's so popular year. We respect do not track,
as prespication in the Browser, which you can user can said,
and we disable analytics, if it is, that, even if
they don't said it, we an anonymized their IP,
when we send information on the Google. And importantly,
we do not at third-party jobscript libraries from Facebook,
twitter or other share in Utilities,
sons they
all have histories
Ähm, one find a world on performance,
since it inserve effecting the user, we go the great
links to render fast pages, giving if you system constraints.
So we right are cSS ass, and most of our jobscript
is ridney in years 6. We compile and then
uggle fi and minimize and strip and your kinds of strip
to get those asset, file size is down.
For images and script, such as Google Maps,
we defer and lazy load all that stuff it,
if it fast load the fold,
so for users not going to see,
it doesn't nextually hitter device and chargers or that.
We use HTTPS everywhere and finally those they have some promises of speeding creases,
we found and number of seedeans for special this mauer librace,
really not is stable is they are evertised.
And so we just do for
the most part oliver jumpscript libraries lookly hold.
American equitess for time.
If you are questions