Overview of content related to 'usability'
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Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job function by designers, technical writers, marketing personnel, and others. It is widely used in consumer electronics, communication, and knowledge transfer objects (such as a cookbook, a document or online help) and mechanical objects such as a door handle or a hammer. Usability includes methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance. In human-computer interaction and computer science, usability studies the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site (web usability) is designed. Usability differs from user satisfaction insofar as the former also embraces usefulness. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Usability)
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Take a Peek Beneath the EPrints V3 Wrappers |
With v3 officially launched at the Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio last week, William Nixon and Peter Millington report on the EPrints 3 pre-launch briefing in London, 8 December 2006. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
Text Encoding for Interchange: A New Consortium |
Lou Burnard on the creation of the TEI Consortium which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world. |
June 2000, issue24, feature article |
The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The Filling in the PIE: HeadLine's Resource Data Model |
John Paschoud explains the concepts of representation and use of metadata in the Resource Data Model (RDM) that has been developed by the HeadLine project. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The Future Is Hybrid: London |
Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event |
Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 |
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase |
Helen Brady describes the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future |
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution |
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. |
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The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011 |
Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Towards a User-Centred Approach to Digital Libraries |
Ken Eason reports on the five themes in the Digilib Conference, Espoo, Finland. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia |
Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
UM.Sitemaker: Flexible Web Publishing for Academic Users |
Jonathan Maybaum explains how UM.SiteMaker was designed to fill an important gap in the array of tools to suit academic publishing. |
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Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data |
Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin discusses the outcomes and lessons learned from user tests performed on the Oxford Blue Pages, a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities at the University of Oxford. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Unix: What Is mod_perl? |
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. |
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Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries |
Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Video Streaming of Events |
Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath |
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals. |
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Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service |
Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies |
Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column. |
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Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9 |
Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000. |
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Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column. |
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Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 6 Conference |
Brian Kelly describes the sixth International World Wide Web conference which took place in California from 7 – 11 April 1997. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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Web Mirrors: Building the UK Mirror Service |
Report on the UK Mirror Service by Mark Russell. |
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WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites? |
Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
WebWatch: Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability |
Dey Alexander and Derek Brown demonstrate how the layout of a Web page has a direct influence upon users' capacity and willingness to engage with a Web site. |
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What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub |
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
What Is an Open Repository? |
Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey report on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas between 23-26 January 2007. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
What's Good and Bad about BUBL |
Traugott Koch reviews the Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL). |
January 1996, issue1, feature article |
Why Are Users So Useful? User Engagement and the Experience of the JISC Digitisation Programme |
Paola Marchionni discusses the importance of user engagement in the creation of digitised scholarly resources with case studies from the JISC Digitisation Programme. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Wikido: Exploiting the Potential of Wikis |
Marieke Guy reports on a one-day workshop, held in Birmingham in November 2006, which took a closer look at the potential of Wikis for educational institutions. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
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