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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. (Sue)
- Sue: I'm still at a loss about this one. Synonyms for repository (according to Roget's) are:
- archive
- depository
- storehouse
- depot
- magazine
- safe
- stockroom
- vault
- storage place
- store room
- Different institutions probably use the functionality differently. Maybe some configurable hover
<abbr>text would be useful for institutions to define Repositories in the way they are using it. —TK- I agree with TK here. I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel; "repository" is a common word which covers all of those more specific terms and doesn't bear any additional meanings likely to confuse a researcher.—CS
- Sue: I'm still at a loss about this one. Synonyms for repository (according to Roget's) are:
Collections
- 2011 recommendation: Resources
- Current recommendation: Keep
- "Collections" seemed to be well understood by users in the usability testing.
- Lets change this to "Collections" (Sue)
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- 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.
- I think this should be completely rethought. What these digital objects actually are, are reproductions. So perhaps using a term like "Images"? (Sue)
- I would encourage us to retain the word "Digital" here, or something else which clearly signals that this is a facet for materials which are readily accessible online. If I'm a student looking for visual material to augment a paper, I would likely expect that searching for "images" would show me any place where visual, non-textual material can be found, whether they're available online or not. And if I were looking for a letter in a collection, I would likely find the stand-alone term "image" misleading (even though it's technically correct).—CS
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.
- If an institution wants to make accession records publicly available, using something like Unprocessed Material might make it more clear to users what they might find under it. Also it should be noted on the browse listing and record detail page exactly what a user is seeing. —TK
- Agreed (Sue)
- If an institution wants to make accession records publicly available, using something like Unprocessed Material might make it more clear to users what they might find under it. Also it should be noted on the browse listing and record detail page exactly what a user is seeing. —TK
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