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Interface design aims, in part, to make the interface as usable as possible by providing as much support as possible for users to complete their tasks. Asking We ask end users how they currently perform their tasks is meant to clarify not just how they do their work but what they are trying to accomplish and how certain design decisions in their current systems help or hinder them in their goals.
Discussions with and feedback from our expert and seasoned cataloger user base show how their work goes beyond data entry to a thorough understanding of how concepts , and bibliographic materials can be classified, and how people can be classified and identified, and how they all relate to each other; where to find this information both on through a review of the item in hand and and through the use of vocabularies, authorities, and external vetted or trusted sources of information; and how to connect or integrate that this information back into their ILS systems. In our cataloging experiments, we were providing not just a new interface to catalogers but basing that interface on a changed model that redistributed redistributes and modified modifies how and where information needed needs to be captured. Precisely what and how and what to be able to clearly explain about this changed model in an updated interface, without relying on training as a means of taking away the need for usable interfaces, is a balance the library community, technologists, and catalogers will need to explore in any linked data cataloging editor they design and implement.
The outcomes of this project are thus necessary context for understanding what and why catalogers approach their tasks in addition to catalogers' tasks and how they accomplish these tasks. Project outcomes also include evaluations of certain designs through more informal feedback, formal usability evaluations, and hands-on experiments with VitroLib. Much that has been researched and understood can be carried over to the design and evaluation of any future linked data editing tools.
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