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Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library

Blandford, A; Gow, J; Buchanan, G; Warwick, C; Rimmer, J; (2007) Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library. In: UNSPECIFIED (pp. 239-242). Green open access

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Abstract

Many systems form 'chains' whereby developers use one system (or 'tool') to create another system, for use by other people. Little work within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has considered how usability considerations propagate through such chains and yet in many situations the usability of systems is determined by design decisions made at one or more steps removed from the immediate developers of the system in question. In this paper, we relate our experiences of developing digital library components and collections to this notion of "design chains". This case study illustrates the necessity of looking beyond the immediate users to try to anticipate the needs of stakeholders elsewhere in the design chain. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2007.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library
ISBN-13: 9783540747949
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74796-3_23
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/5126
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