Creating compelling user interfaces Tristan Roddis, Cogapp DPLAfest 2106, Washington D.C.
The External Problem
Competition for attention Numbers are not enough!
The Internal Problem
Wine = content Glass = infrastructure Drinking = access
Wine = content => 32% Glass = infrastructure => 22% Drinking = access => 46%
It’s all about impact!
The Good News This is easy to do, given some prerequisites: 1)Put your text content into a modern search system (Solr, Elastic Search…) 2)Put you image content into a dynamic server (IIPImage, Loris, Djatoka...)* * ideally IIIF-compatible!
Aggregation
Video records from Youtube
Audio records from Internet Archive
Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive Digitised book records from Internet Archive
Video records from Youtube Audio records from Internet Archive Digitised book records from Internet Archive Page from Drupal CMS
Autocomplete
Faceted search
Date histogram
Geo-search
Subject-specific search
Text layout
Images
Interoperable images
IIIF viewers Different viewers allow different audiences to experience the same content in different ways Universal Viewer Mirador Internet Archive Book Reader Compare viewers at
New interfaces for interpretation Boschproject.org Visible Infrared Infrared reflectography
Gaming interface? labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator
3D virtual world? labs.cogapp.com/tc labs.cogapp.com/tc
Conclusion It’s not enough to put your data online You must engage your users to create lasting impact Searchable content and flexible images are a springboard for compelling interfaces I’d love to hear from you:
Questions? Tristan