This week we held our final consultation workshop for librarians. In attendance were delegates from various university library sites at Cardiff University and Cardiff Metropolitan University and from the Swansea Library Service and Cwmbran Library.
The workshop began an overview of the Lost Visions project and a presentation on the research applications that have arisen from the project to date. This was followed by a discussion of design implementation challenges, which included the improvement of existing metadata and designing search features.
The interactive session that followed provided an opportunity for delegates to trial the Illustration Archive in advance of the upcoming launch. Feedback from this session was wide-ranging. Among the suggestions raised were making the full page view feature more prominent (below), emphasising the geo-tagging element of the archive, revising some of the terminology in the tagging section, allowing users to review their tags and improving the zoom feature.
The workshop began an overview of the Lost Visions project and a presentation on the research applications that have arisen from the project to date. This was followed by a discussion of design implementation challenges, which included the improvement of existing metadata and designing search features.
The interactive session that followed provided an opportunity for delegates to trial the Illustration Archive in advance of the upcoming launch. Feedback from this session was wide-ranging. Among the suggestions raised were making the full page view feature more prominent (below), emphasising the geo-tagging element of the archive, revising some of the terminology in the tagging section, allowing users to review their tags and improving the zoom feature.
The roundtable discussion at the end of the afternoon emphasised the value of the Illustration Archive in breaking down generic hierarchies and exposing hitherto undiscovered connections between different types of text. Delegates also discussed the potential for the archive to be incorporated into teaching and training activities relating to the use of online resources. It was felt that encouraging students to engage in the tagging process would emphasise their understanding of the interaction between word and image and offer a deeper and more sophisticated knowledge of the challenges associated with designing and using search tools within online archives.
The day provided some extremely fruitful discussion and we would like to thank delegates for their valuable input in the crucial final stages before the archive is launched.
The day provided some extremely fruitful discussion and we would like to thank delegates for their valuable input in the crucial final stages before the archive is launched.
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