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INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING AND INTERPRETING RECORDS
CONTAINING GEO-SPATIAL DATA, in collaboration with The National
Archives
The key objective of this project is to enhance the experience of
potential users, both novice and professional, of The National
Archive’s (TNA) archive collections. This will be done through the
design and prototyping of interfaces for interacting with data
relating to the history of specific time periods, places or subjects.
This proposal is consistent with ongoing investment by TNA in
digitization and information retrieval, and complements it by adding
dynamic ways of interacting with the content of those digitized
records, specifically for retrieval and organisation of data by
individual users. The aim is to help users make sense of the data
presented and aid in the interpretation and understanding of what is
contained within the archive collections.
The project will start with in-depth scenario-based design, exploring
the user requirements of different potential users of the archives.
This phase of the project will build on logs of data use already in
existence for TNA and extend this by researching the methods used
among focus groups of amateur and professional users researching
specific sites. This design process will be used to design appropriate
software solutions and also to select key record series which best
support the initial development of a system within TNA.
The project will be supervised at TNA by Amy Warner, Head of Systems
Development and Search at The National Archives and at the University
of York by Professor Helen Petrie and Dr Chris Power.
For informal enquiries and information about the project, please contact:
Helen Petrie
email: [log in to unmask]
phone: 01904 325603
or
Chris Power
email: [log in to unmask]
phone: 01904 325673
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