MaNIS Interface Project Mayjane Co Denise Green Jane Lee Rebecca Shapley
The MaNIS Project ► ► NSF funded project to develop network of distributed databases of mammal specimen data ► ► Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley is one of 17 North American institutions involved.
Demo
Last Prototype Version What we aren’t doing: ► Have two conditions within one facet, related by OR. ► Ideas for the AND/OR display. ► Hundreds of other details we were able to imagine as good features of our design….
Last Prototype Version What we are doing: ► Display preview numbers on hyperlinks that add search conditions ► Location search in multiple fields ► Bold text within results where it matches search text
Last Prototype Version …or is it? The Research Information Manager at California Academy of Sciences considering implementing this design for some CAS online databases. BNHM /MVZ Summer internship involving implementation of design ideas into the actual MaNIS project.