TY - JOUR
T1 - From Crud to Cream
T2 - Imagining a Rich Scholarly Repository Interface
AU - Brown, Susan
AU - Arazy, Ofer
AU - Rockwell, Geoffrey
AU - Moroz, Ashley
AU - Sellmer, Megan
AU - Ruecker, Stan
AU - Radzikowska, Milena
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This article addresses the design of a dynamic repository interface to support numerous scholarly activities. Starting with the four fundamental functions associated with persistent storage — create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) — we tested, as an organizing rubric for the interface, the acronym CREAM: Create (represent, illustrate); Read (sample, read); Enhance (refer, annotate, process); Analyze (search, select, visualize, mine, cluster); and Manage (track, label, transform). Based on a card-sorting exercise conducted with researchers, we conclude that a slightly modified rubric of CREAMS offers a useful starting point that emphasizes the enriched functionality a scholarly repository or similarly complex digital environment requires, as well as the immense challenge of designing conceptually clear interfaces, even for a relatively homogenous community of researchers.
AB - This article addresses the design of a dynamic repository interface to support numerous scholarly activities. Starting with the four fundamental functions associated with persistent storage — create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) — we tested, as an organizing rubric for the interface, the acronym CREAM: Create (represent, illustrate); Read (sample, read); Enhance (refer, annotate, process); Analyze (search, select, visualize, mine, cluster); and Manage (track, label, transform). Based on a card-sorting exercise conducted with researchers, we conclude that a slightly modified rubric of CREAMS offers a useful starting point that emphasizes the enriched functionality a scholarly repository or similarly complex digital environment requires, as well as the immense challenge of designing conceptually clear interfaces, even for a relatively homogenous community of researchers.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2012v3n4a62
DO - https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2012v3n4a62
M3 - مقالة
SN - 1923-0702
VL - 3
JO - Scholarly and Research Communication
JF - Scholarly and Research Communication
IS - 4
ER -