Thought about search interface discussion on SIMILE PI phone conference, 05-Sep-03 1200 EDT/1700 BST

Hi

I had a really bad headache during the PI meeting last week - So I couldn't 
assimilate what was being said fast enough to participate...

A late thought on the search interface disucssion... I'm not aware of 
publicly available reviews or more usefully independant meta-reviews, of 
image collection search interfaces, especially based on user studies data. 
If anyone does, I would be really interested. There must be some, since it 
is a very big commercial area. Although of course, semantic views/linking 
side of things will be rare - I will check with the TASI 
(http://www.tasi.ac.uk/) staff here at ILRT, if they know of any.

If not, it would probably be valuable to talk to the organisations behind 
good examples of the various types of serach engine, identified by Mark, to 
try and get data on how people *actually* use them. And so how effective 
they really are, ideally understanding something about the communities that 
use them.

Or(and?) perhaps to do a really quick and dirty user study ourselves, with 
the target user groups. My experience is that 'normal users' esp. in the 
education domain, judge a demo primarily by its interface and how it meets 
their perceived needs and expectations, irrespective of how great or ground 
breaking the functionality is - that is, unless they are very carefully 
guided or primed. So early work on interface is generally well rewarded.

Coincidently I just got a message from Pete Johnson at UKOLN pointing to 
work by the people doing the RDF/LOM binding work (see mail last week - 
http://kmr.nada.kth.se/el/ims/metadata.html), one of the papers - a Masters 
Thesis, I looked at talks about query and interface issues for edutella 
(http://kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/index.html#el)/semantic web content.

Paul





--On 05 September 2003 07:06 -0700 "Bass, Mick" <mick.bass@hp.com> wrote:

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> Added Eric's suggested discussion topic
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> SIMILE PI phone conference, 05-Sep-03 1200 EDT/1700 BST
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> irc://irc.w3.org:6665/simile
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> Theme: Share progress towards demo corpus and storyboard.
> 	 Stimulate discussion around storyboard.
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> 1/ Comments, Rob's D-Lib submission
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> 2/ Logistics
>    History System Review, Handoff, Q&A
>    Thursday 11 September
>    2-5pm at CRL
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> 3/ Present / Review
>    Comparison and mapping of VRA-Core and IMS Metadata
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> http://web.mit.edu/simile/www/documents/demoBackground/simile_relevant_st
> andards.pdf    John Gilbert
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> 4/ Present / Review
>    Search Interfaces
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> http://web.mit.edu/simile/www/documents/demoBackground/simile_relevant_st
> andards.pdf    Mark Butler
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> 5/ Review / Discuss
>    notes on the  LOM/RDF binding activity
>    http://kmr.nada.kth.se/el/ims/
>    Eric Miller
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> 6/ Review, Discuss, and Tune
>    Draft Storyboard
>    Mick Bass
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