A 24x7 presentation I gave at Open Repositories 2011

1. Don't bold the field name!
Simeon Warner (Cornell University)
8th
June 2011, OR11, Austin, TX

3. Title:
Authors:
Affiliation:
Date:
Venue:
Don't bold the field
name!
Simeon Warner
Cornell University
2011-06-08
OR11, Austin, TX

4. Title:
Authors:
Affiliation:
Date:
Venue:
Don't bold the field
name!
Simeon Warner
Cornell University
2011-06-08
OR11, Austin, TX

5. Title:
Authors:
Affiliation:
Date:
Venue:
Don't bold the field
name!
Simeon Warner
Cornell University
2011-06-08
OR11, Austin, TX

6. Don't bold the field name!
Simeon Warner (Cornell University)
8th
June 2011, OR11, Austin, TX

7. Matthew Hoelscher http://flic.kr/p/GzZzY

12. ...but Amazon does do field: value metadata!

13. but what about scholarly repositories?
are they different?

20. Prescription
● Think first... (it is usually a good start anyway)

21. Prescription
● Think first... what you can present without a
label, and what is most important

22. Prescription
● Think first... what you can present without a
label, and what is most important
● Think of what accepted cues you can leverage
to make meaning clear

23. Prescription
● Think first... what you can present without a
label, and what is most important
● Think of what accepted cues you can leverage
to make content clear
● And then where fielded display might be best:
– Entry/edit interface
– Similar/confusing data needing explicit label
– Search dominates over comprehension?

24. That's all folks...
Watch out for sequels, coming to a cafe or bar near here:
● Why it is unhelpful to have downloads counters that
increment repeatedly for a single user's click, click, click...
● How sad it is that so much of web layout reverted from
scalable to fixed pixel ;-)