Archivists
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Anne When scrolling through inventories would like a horizontal ribbon that carries the relevant hierarchy information (for example series, sub-series). Need more information about this. Examples? What does this look like?
NYPL's site provides a good example of this, since the series title information is pinned to the top via one of those javascript scrollspy features. Note also that they can preview the scope and contents notes of the series-level notes. http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#detailed (it's better to see in action, rather than taking a screenshot... just scroll down a while, and note the "i" icon pop up next to the right of the series title.
Doing their job researcher
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Academic researcher - professor
Sally Wants to access digital images in the same place as the description, without having to click forward and back. She wants to see the finding aid, have the digital object open in a new window, and easily be able to close it to click on the next item from the finding aid. What about an overlay rather than a new window, since other personas indicate that new windows are a huge negative?
Wants to be able to find them directly by their call number which he knows already and request to use them in the archives classroom via AEON, the archive’s request system. Does ASpace already integrate this? Or is this done through a separate system? Use USC’s work to integrate Aeon (http://www.atlas-sys.com/aeon/ and https://github.com/smoil/aeon_requests)?
Academic researcher - graduate student
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Alex Will be frustrated if it isn't immediately obvious whether or not materials have been digitized. If materials have been digitized, this user wants to be able to access them instantly. (make this part of the same test above) What already exists in ASpace for this? What do users typically expect to see?
Alex Would like to be able to save and share links to finding aids that are of interest. What already exists in ASpace for this? What do users typically expect to see?
Madison Has great difficulty reading anything that isn’t transcribed. Should transcriptions be available on records (or are they already)? More information on what exists or should exist would be great.
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