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- 2011 recommendation: N/A
- Current recommendation: This is a term that can mean a variety of different things. From my perspective, for example, it means "library". Not sure if we should change it.
- Different institutions probably use the functionality differently. Maybe some configurable hover
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- Different institutions probably use the functionality differently. Maybe some configurable hover
Collections
- 2011 recommendation: Resources
- Current recommendation: Keep
- "Collections" seemed to be well understood by users in the usability testing.
Digital Objects
- 2011 recommendation: Digital Objects
- Current recommendation: Digital Items
- If this is kept as a top-level item it would make sense to make it clear on the browse page that digital items are a very small subset of what can be found in the physical archives.
- Also, digital items will need to be given higher visibility within the context of their collections.
Accessions
- 2011 recommendation: Accessions
- Current recommendation: (not sure users understand or care about accession records; does anyone have evidence one way or the other?) Agreed. Most archives will spawn resource records if they want accessions made discoverable.
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- 2011 recommendation: Subjects
- Current recommendation:
- (it is unclear whether users find subject browsing useful from the usability testing; more review and discussion may be required)
Names
- 2011 recommendation: Names
- Current recommendation: Keep
- (it is unclear whether users find agent browsing useful from the usability testing; more review and discussion may be required)
- (it is unclear whether users find agent browsing useful from the usability testing; more review and discussion may be required)
Classifications
- 2011 recommendation: N/A
- Current recommendation: I'm still not sure what this even means, so not sure what to do with this. Repository site map?
- This seems to be functionality that different institutions can use in very different ways, similar to Repositories above.
Object-Level
Summary
- Recommendation: Administrative Info
- Summary of what? I dont think the Admin info (e.g., Descriptive Rules) is helpful for patrons. Keeping collection identifier is a good idea.
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