[Sigia-l] Re: Sigia-l Digest, Vol 7, Issue 15 (Out of office)

R.J.Hartley

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NISO Ballot Announcement: Z39.19-200X - Revised and Out-for-Ballot
NISO Standard Z39.19, now titled Guidelines for the Construction, Format,
and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies, has been revised and
is available for ballot and review by all NISO Members. Balloting Period:
April 11, 2005 to May 25, 2005
The revised draft standard and balloting instructions are at:
http://www.niso.org/standards/balloting.html
The standard has been expanded considerably and grown to 172 pages. In this
revision of the Z39.19 standard:
. More user-friendly language is incorporated and explanations of important
concepts and principles are provided.
. The standard takes into account changes in information technology, the
various ways that users search or browse, and the many types of content they
find.
. The scope of the revised standard addresses the needs presented by a
variety of information producing organizations and different types of
content; examples throughout the document are relevant to business and
industry.
This revised standard is a collaboration among a number of NISO members and
leading experts in the information field. The process used demonstrates a
shift in NISO's standards development approach. The parameters of the
revision were first defined at a pre-standards workshop NISO held in 1999.
With the support of The H.W. Wilson Foundation, The Getty Grant Program, and
the National Library of Medicine resources were provided to undertake the
revision. 
The following persons were members of the development team that revised
Z39.19:
. Emily Fayen (MuseGlobal), Project Lead
. Vivian Bliss (Microsoft Corporation)
. Carol Brent (ProQuest Information and Learning)
. David Clarke (Synapse Corporation)
. John Dickert (U.S. Department of Defense, DTIC)
. Lynn El-Hoshy (Library of Congress)
. Patricia Harpring (The Getty Foundation)
. Stephen Hearn (representing the American Library Association)
. Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations, Inc.)
. Sabine Kuhn (Chemical Abstracts Service)
. Pat Kuhr (The H.W. Wilson Company)
. Paula McCoy (ProQuest Information and Learning)
. Diane McKerlie (DMA Consulting)
. Peter Morville (Semantic Studios)
. Stuart Nelson (National Library of Medicine)
. Allan Savage (National Library of Medicine)
. Diane Vizine-Goetz (OCLC, Inc.)
. Trish Yancey (Synapse Corporation)
. Marcia Lei Zeng (representing the Special Libraries Association)
Cynthia Hodgson, on NISO's editorial staff, worked closely with the revision
group to see this project through to completion. 
NISO's thanks goes to this outstanding group for their time, talent,
expertise, and dedication.
Now, Voting Members, you are invited to review this standard. Please return
your ballot by May 25. Thank You!
Pat Harris
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:47:40 +0100
From: "Jonathan Baker-Bates" <Jonathan.Baker-Bates_at_oyster.com>
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Interface for Content Management Systems?
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> I've been asked to look at re-designing an interface for a internally 
> developed content management. As part of my personal process, 
> I always like to do a competitive analysis or comparison of similar 
> products to get an understanding of potential approaches.  Has anyone 
> addressed a similar problem? Any suggestions on CMS interfaces that 
> work well (or not)? Any advice? 
>
>	
>	Thanks 
>	
>	Dave

Tough one. A lot of the time it's going to depend on the capabilities of
that particular CMS. For example, whether it strictly separates out
content from presentation, allows some form of markup, manages images
from the local file system or via an online library of some kind, etc.
etc.. Then there's the users - how do they work? How would they like to
work if a CMS wasn't telling them how? 

Once or twice, I've wondered whether identifying a "bad interface" in a
CMS is in fact missing the point, and that it's the overall *use* for
the CMS (whatever the interface) in the business that's the problem. For
that reason, I'd put a lot of my time into some contextual enquiry -
then test some mock-ups of candidate interfaces, etc. But you might
uncover some problems that aren't to do with the UI.

Overall though, I don't think you can get very far in this area fishing
about for good examples or best practice.

Jonathan 	
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:06:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Kathryn La Barre <klabarre_at_indiana.edu>
Subject: [Sigia-l] Facets on the web study: seeking participants
To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
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I am a doctoral candidate at Indiana University currently conducting a
study of the use of facets in website design and construction. During May
and June - I plan to interview 20 individuals who use facets, facet
analysis, or faceted classification as site components. Earlier work
relating to this study is posted here:
http://mypage.iu.edu/~klabarre/facetstudy.html
Interviews will not last more than one hour, will be conducted
individually, and will be conducted at your office or other convenient
place. A transcript of the interview will be made. Each participant will
receive a copy and can edit the interview transcript. The names of
participants will be kept confidential.
The result of these interviews and a preceding study of a random sample
of websites, will be the creation of a checklist or set of guidelines for
faceted website design and construction. Each participant in the study
will receive a copy. Once completed, the results of this study will be
posted on my website.
If you are interested in participating, or would like to know more about
this study, please contact me / klabarre_at_indiana.edu
	Kathryn La Barre	http://mypage.iu.edu/~klabarre
	doctoral candidate, 
	School of Library and Information Science
	Indiana University
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