ECP-2007-DILI-517009 Europeana Local Deliverable 3.5: Report on user and usability testing (1) Deliverable number D 3.5 PP; Restricted to other programme Dissemination level participants (incl. Commission services and project reviewers) Delivery date 13 November 2011 Status Final Author(s) Olga McHenry eContentplus This project is funded under the eContentplus programme, a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable. Contents EuropeanaLocal Advanced User Test Group ...................................................................................................... 3 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 4 2 Search and results ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Search APIs ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Query context ............................................................................................................................................... 5 The query mechanism ................................................................................................................................... 5 Result specification ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Advanced search ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Word autocompletion ................................................................................................................................... 7 Alternative spellings ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Query expression specification for advanced search ...................................................................................... 7 Tips and suggestions ..................................................................................................................................... 7 3 Browse ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Spatial, person, index browsing ..................................................................................................................... 7 SubJect cloud ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Related items ................................................................................................................................................ 8 People are currently thinking about .............................................................................................................. 8 Visibility of individual data providers ............................................................................................................ 8 4 Distribution – APIs .................................................................................................................................... 9 Extended search ........................................................................................................................................... 9 Query expansion ........................................................................................................................................... 9 OpenSearch API ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Zoom (present image or a part of it with a specified scale) ............................................................................. 9 5 Facilitation: Europeana Labs ................................................................................................................... 10 Technical requirements .............................................................................................................................. 10 6 Content Ingestion .................................................................................................................................... 10 Content checker .......................................................................................................................................... 11 OAI-PMH .................................................................................................................................................... 11 Continuity of ingestion process and information about it ............................................................................. 12 Editorial Virtual Exhibitions ........................................................................................................................ 12 7 Editorial Virtual Exhibitions .................................................................................................................... 12 8 Future developments .............................................................................................................................. 12 Tagging/annotation .................................................................................................................................... 13 Infrastructure for automatic upload mechanism .......................................................................................... 13 Quality of content ....................................................................................................................................... 13 Reports for content providers on attracted traffic and sources of this traffic ................................................ 13 Annex 1 Questions and issues raised by the content providers ....................................................................... 14 Ontologies .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Query expansion ......................................................................................................................................... 14 Clustering on the fly .................................................................................................................................... 14 Target group of Rhine/Danube Specifications ............................................................................................. 14 Collection, normalization and data enrichment ............................................................................................ 14 Query mechanism ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Annex 2 EuropeanaLocal Advance User Testing Specifications ........................................................................ 15 Page 2 of 31 EuropeanaLocal Advanced User Test Group The following 8 EuropeanaLocal content providers took part in the advanced user testing: v ABM-Utvikling, NO v Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT v Ministry of Culture, Spain, ES v Narodna in univerzitetna knJižnica, SI v PAN - Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe, PL v Provincie Limburg, BE v Public Library 'Pencho Slaveykov' (Public Library of Varna), BG v Sogn og FJordane County Municipality, NO Page 3 of 31 1 Introduction This report is a part of EuropeanaLocal D3.5 ‘Report on user and usability testing’ reflecting the results of Advanced User Testing (Test Phase 1). EuropeanaLocal user testing is a part of work conducted under the EuropeanaLocal Evaluation Work Group (EWG). The EuropeanaLocal user testing consists of 2 phases: TP1 – Advanced User Testing, and TP2 – End-User Testing. This report covers solemnly TP1 – Advanced User Testing. Thus, EuropeanaLocal D3.5 consists of 2 individual reports corresponding to described above test phases. EuropeanaLocal user testing work plan was initially introduces to all EuropeanaLocal partners at the proJect mid-term meetings in Poznan in December 2009. In March 2010 it was presented at Europeana meeting in Paris and was successfully validated by Europeana V1.0 WG ‘Users’. Following this, the Advanced User Testing Specifications were prepared by EuropeanaLocal to assist the test group. Those were validated at EWG meeting in Lisbon in July 2010 (Annex 2). The testing took place between July and October 2010. As additional task EuropeanaLocal also provided feedback to the first draft of Danube specifications released in September 2010. The feedbacK was included in the report produced under Europeana V 1.0 ‘Validation’ WG. Test Phase 1 (TP1) was focusing on assessment of the functionalities that were coming up in the new Europeana portal (Rhine release). The objective of TP1 was to identify which functionalities were missing and could be added to Europeana portal in order to maKe it more attractive specifically to the local and regional content providers. Thus, the report consists of feedbacKs and remarKs Jointly produced by the test group in relation to main functionalities of Europeana portal (after Rhine). The test group for the TP1 was a small focused group where the test users were selected from the advanced EuropeanaLocal