Dates: November 3 - 4, 2010
Location: Brown University, Hillel, 80 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Goals
Day 1: Built a Project Website and developed PR materials
9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30: Website Discussion
(Rafael Alvarado joined us virtually for this part)
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Defined the needs for the project website
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Deadline for completing website: January
10:30 -10:45: Break
10:45 - 12:00: Established the Website and work plan
12:00 - 1:00: Lunch
1:00 - 2:30: PR Discussion
(Mara Degnan-Rojeski joined us virtually for this discussion)
Developed a plan for publicizing the TAPAS project
2:30 - 2:45: Break
2:45 - 4:30: Continued work on the website and PR
6:00: Dinner
Day 2: UX Workshop
9:30 - 9:45 (10 mins) Overview
The day's goals
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Our users
Who are our users? What are their needs, mindsets?
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Our service
Boil our ever-growing features list down, once again, until we are left with the absolute essential functions
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The Tapas model, structure, workflow
What is the simplest and most natural way to model Tapas, so that the given users (#1) can perform the functions (#2) in the most intuitive way possible?
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Drew some screen mockups demonstrating this model using pen & paper
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Planned “next steps”, including a user testing approach
9:45 - 10:05 (20 mins) User Profiles
Question: Who forms our user base?
Activity: Developed user profiles and posted one profile per poster-sized page
Questions to ask:
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What do they need TAPAS for?
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How will they use it?
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How familiar are they with XML, TEI, XPath, the web?
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What tools do they currently use? (what could they use?)
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What discipline(s) are they coming from?
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Map user profiles to actual people (“profile A fits Prof. Jones at my institution ...”) we could use for user testing -- this could be filled out during break
10:05 - 10:35 (30 mins) Defining our service
Reviewed our list of functions, and boiled it down to the “absolutely must haves”
10:30 - 10:45: Break
10:45 - 12:00: Modeled TAPAS structure, workflow
12:00 - 1:00: Lunch
1:00 - 3:30: Continued pre-lunch activity & started to make screenshots
Present models developed before lunch
Consolidate into a agreed-upon framework
3:30 - 4:00: Wrap up & next steps
Participants
Brown University
Andrew Ashton, Senior Research Programmer, Center for Digital Scholarship
Syd Bauman, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Scholarly Technology Group
Julia Flanders, Director, Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development, Scholarly Technology Group
Dickinson College
Mara Degnan-Rojeski, Social Sciences Librarian (virtually)
Hamilton College
Peter McDonald, Library Information Systems Specialist
Mount Holyoke College
Shaoping Moss, Information Technology Consultant
Ron Peterson, Network & Systems Manager
University of Chicago
Quinn Dombrowski, Coordinator, Emerging Technology Development, NSIT, Academic Technologies and Communications Specialist for Project Bamboo
University of Virginia
Rafael Alvarado, Associate Director, SHANTI (virtually)
Wheaton College
Scott Hamlin, Director of Technology for Research and Instruction
Rosalyn Metz, Systems Administrator for Curricular Support
Patrick Rashleigh, Faculty Technology Liaison for the Humanities
Willamette University
Michael Spalti, Associate University Librarian for Systems
