Lee Library Information Systems Task List

Description: Define and complete the search interface usability testing on i/f design.
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 771
Long Description: The Family Histories Archive search interface needs to be tested for usability using the designed interface before implementation. If the testing identifies problems, they need to be resolved before design is complete.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors: Hunter, Mike
Jenson, Jacob
Lesue, David
Due: TBD Opened: 6/16/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
7/15/2004 I've asked Randy whether it is appropriate to ask CID for help with this.
7/26/2004 Larry Seawright has been added to the project.
Description: Define and complete the submission interface usability testing on i/f design.
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 772
Long Description: The Family Histories Archive submission interface needs to be tested for usability using the designed interface before implementation. If the testing identifies problems, they need to be resolved before design is complete.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors: Hunter, Mike
Jenson, Jacob
Lesue, David
Due: TBD Opened: 6/16/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
7/15/2004 I've asked Randy whether it is appropriate to ask CID for help with this.
7/26/2004 Larry Seawright from CID has been added to the project.
10/6/2004 Mike Hunter will provide 10 names and contact information for the usability test. The first test will be unscripted for five people. The goal will be to generally hear from them about the system. The second test will be scripted.
Description: Define support paths for Family Histories Archive
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 773
Long Description: We need to define the supports paths for all classes of users of the Family Histories Archive.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 6/16/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
6/16/2004 Currently the users are defined as: administrative, submission, searching.
8/17/2004 The project team will begin this on 8/31/04.
Description: Define required web-browser plug-ins
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 774
Long Description: We will not require "unusal" browser plug-ins. We will document here the required plug-ins, if any.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 6/16/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
9/27/2004 At this point the only required plug-in is Adobe Acrobat. We need to determine the lowest version number that will be supported.
Description: Define usability goals for the search and submission interfaces
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 775
Long Description: The usability goals for the Family Histories Archive need to be defined before testing. The goals need to include the expected users of the system, expected technical competence, and expected tools available to the end user. Note that it may be possible to define different goals for the search and submission interfaces.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 6/16/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
7/15/2004 I've asked Randy whether it is appropriate to ask CID for help with this.
7/26/2004 Larry Seawright has been added to the project.
Description: What versions of Adobe Acrobat will be accepted?
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 778
Long Description: The project team needs to define the versions of Adobe Acrobat documents that will be accepted into the Family Histories Archive. This may affect support, documentation, training, and coding.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 6/16/2004
Changed: 6/16/2004  
6/16/2004 We know that there are some backward compatibility issues with Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 trying to read an Adobe Acrobat version 6 file which has not been properly prepared. Should we define a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader that searcher must have in order to view the contents?
Description: Owner for Family and Church History Library tasks
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 781
Long Description: There currently is no owner for deliverable 10.1, putting a link on the Church's FamilySearch.org website, and for deliverable 10.8 publicity originating at FCH.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 6/18/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
Description: Set-up Initial Usability Testing
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 796
Long Description: Perform usability testing at the front-end of the Family Histories Archive Submission System project. This is to guide us during the development of the user interface. To complete this task the user interface mock-up needs to be completed, the target audiences defined, and up to 15 test participants identified.
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors: Seawright, Larry
Due: TBD Opened: 8/17/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
8/17/2004 We met with Larry Seawright today and determined that we will do two phases of usability testing at this stage. There will be no more than 5 tests during which there will be interactive dialog with the test subjects regarding the interface. Then there will be no more than 10 tests which are scripted.
Description: Will the Family History project be ADA compliant?
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 99 Task ID: 845
Long Description: Will we add ADA accessibility to this project?
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 10/8/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
Description: Googlisibility of the Digital Collections
Projects: Digital Library
Priority: 99 Task ID: 866
Long Description: Randy is concerned about Google not finding our digital collections.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors: Eldredge, Scott
Finlay, John
Jenson, Jacob
Price, Ryan
Due: TBD Opened: 12/16/2004
Changed: 1/29/2005  
12/16/2004 Things to consider:
  • What type of metadata will Google use to index our site?
  • Google Hacks says that if you get into DMOZ that you have a better chance of being indexed. Should we be getting individual collections into DMOZ?
  • How much and how deep is Google searching in our web space?
  • We should call the U to see what they are doing.
  • Are there ways to direct Google to what we want them to see?
1/6/2005 Actions from the meeting and from discussions with Randy and Julene:
  • Julene and Bill will talk to Dick Hacken about getting library links on his pages.
  • Scott Eldredge will add metadata to the collection pages and in the alt tags for images to describe the collections.
  • Scott Eldredge will submit our collection webpages to DMOZ for indexing.

Another thing that we can do is make sure that the titles of our collection pages match the content. Many search engines use this as a major factor in indexing the site.

1/29/2005 Instructions to enable a full-text collection to be searched by Google can be found at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/googlecrawling.htm.
Description: Family Histories Archive Project Meetings
Projects: Family Histories Archive
Priority: 9999 Task ID: 735
Long Description:
Status: Open
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 5/28/2004
Changed: 11/18/2004  
6/15/2004 Bill Lund (LIS), Jacob Jenson (LIS), Dennis Meldrum (Church Family History Library), Joe Everett (Church Family History Library), Scott Eldredge (HBLL), Betty Walling (OIT), Mike Hunter (HBLL), Kayla Willey (HBLL), David Lesue (HBLL)
6/30/2004 Scott Eldredge (HBLL), Mike Hunter (HBLL), Jacob Jenson (LIS), Bill Lund (LIS), Kayla Willey (HBLL) - Establish workflow
8/17/2004 Jacob Jenson, David Lesue, Bill Lund, Larry Seawright (CID) - User interface.
8/31/2004 Kayla Willey, Joe Everrett, Scott Eldredge, Jacob Jenson, Mike Hunter, Betty Walling, Bill Lund
11/18/2004 Project management turned over to Scott Eldredge.
Description: ETD Project Meetings
Projects: ETD
Priority: 9999 Task ID: 717
Long Description: Attendance and topics for ETD project meetings.
Status: Hold
Owner: Eldredge, Scott Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 4/26/2004
Changed: 3/9/2005  
8/18/2004 Scott Eldredge, Selby Herrin, Carla Kupitz, Jacob Jenson, Bill Lund
8/30/2004 Sarah Warburton, Jacob Jenson, Scott Eldredge, Wendy Duran, Selby Herrin, Carla Kupitz, Bill Lund, Kayla Willey - Began project definition.
9/1/2004 Selby Herrin, Sarah Warburton, Jacob Jenson, Scott Eldredge, Bill Lund, Wendy Duran, Carla Kupitz, Mindy Swanson - Continued project definition. Next meeting 9/7.
9/27/2004 Jacob Jenson, Carla Kupitz, Wendy Duran, Selby Herrin, Scott Eldredge, Bill Lund
11/18/2004 Project management turned over to Scott Eldredge.

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