Archivists
- Pam Gets an email from a researcher with a specific question (let’s detail that question here based on where we will run the tests). Runs the searches (let’s detail those searches) and consolidates the results into a response to email the researcher (turn this into a test). What does she want that list of results to look like? Is she going to provide the researcher with instructions to run their own searches, as well?
- Maynard Wants to quickly search by the specific record series number for the President George Stoddard Records to locate the correspondence series within that specific record group which he vaguely remembers as being 2/10/1. (turn this into a test) Can we get more information about what this information should look like on the records?
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Aimee This is someone who occasionally looks for something they need to support something else they are doing (e.g. a cool photo to post to social media, or a quote to support a speech. These uses are not in ASpace often and need to be fast when they are). How does Aimee want to see search results returned to her when looking for something to post to social media? If her search returns 100 results, how many of those will she actually look at? How will she quickly get the item she needs?
Nick Needs to be able to "save" or favorite archival objects, collections, and digital objects in a shopping cart or bookmarks for later viewing. Does he have some kind of account?
ASpace does not have user account functionality, so no. This would be a great feature to add. (Sue)Ryan Wants to be able to pay fees online. Is this something that can already be done through ASpace? This brings up a LOT of considerations. What already exists? What do institutions do now?
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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)? ASpace does not integrate this. We used the ASpace API to construct a call request that pulls the info into Aeon. (Sue)
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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