Functional Requirements for Online Tools to Support Community-Led Collections Building
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Interface design for metadata creation
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Iterative design of metadata creation tools for resource authors
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
What would 'google' do? users' mental models of a digital library search engine
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
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Digital libraries are supported by good quality metadata, and thus by the use of good quality metadata tools. The design of metadata tools can be supported by following user-centered design processes. In this paper we discuss the application and evaluation of several cognitively-based rules, derived from the work of Donald Norman, to the design of a metadata tool for administering Dublin Core metadata. One overall finding was that while the use of the rules supported users in their immediate interactions with the tool interface, they provided less support for the more cognitively intensive tasks associated with developing a wider conceptual understanding of the purpose of metadata. The findings have implications for the wider development of tools to support metadata work in digital libraries and allied contexts.