Transcript May 12, 1999

Names Access Project
Names Access Project
Suzanne Ginsburg
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Motivation
• Contribute to Holocaust Survivor community
• Develop system that people need
• Create “real world” project
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Holocaust Museum Internship
• Became familiar with organizational structure
• Gathered task analysis information
– Interviewed Registry staff
– Observed visitors search Survivors Registry
– Collected relevant documents
– Researched other search services
– Listened and asked lots of questions...
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Problems
• No central resource
• Each resource organized differently
• Spelling variations, errors, and multiple names
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Goals
• Provide central point of access
• Alleviate problems associated with spelling and name variations
• Support alternative search strategies
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Target users
• Survivors
• Friends and relatives of survivors and victims
• Survivors Registry staff
• Genealogists
• General public
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Proposed backend solutions
• Inquiry
• SQL Server, Cold Fusion, and Inquiry
• SQL Server and Cold Fusion
– Link back to original databases
• SQL Server and Cold Fusion
?
– Create master database, “UniList”
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French Deportation
Lists
Surname
Maiden name
Forename
DOB
POB
Survivors
Registry
Auschwitz Prisoner
Records
Name
Previous name
Other name
DOB
POB
First name
Last name
DOB
POB
Lodz Ghetto
First name
Last name
DOB
POB
Merged database
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Places
Family
Names
Person
Source
Dates
Media
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UI Iterative design process
Design
[ Task Analysis
First interactive
December
Testing
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March
Lo-fi
Second interactive
April
Heuristic evaluation
Final interactive
May
Pilot user study
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Key interface features
• Search
– Soundex
– Thesaurus
– Date range
• Browse names by surname and birthplace
• Cross-links
– More records about this person
– Family members’ records
• Sample traces, search support, related resources
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Pilot user study
• Goals
• Participants
• Procedure
• Results
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Next steps
• Annotation tools
• Researcher tools and views
• Online submissions and corrections
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Special thanks to..
Bob Twitty and Michael Haley-Goldman
Professors Hearst, Besser, Cooper, Braunstein
Usability test participants
SIMS classmates
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“How rare that someone actually does something
useful with the Web...”
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