id: 05610024
dt: a
an: 05610024
au: Caccialupi, Roberta; Calvi, Licia; Cassella, Maria; Conte, Georgia
ti: Usability evaluation of a multimedia archive: B\@bele.
so: Agosti, Maristella (ed.) et al., Research and advanced technology for
    digital libraries. 13th European conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece,
    September 27‒October 2, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN
    978-3-642-04345-1/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5714, 370-376
    (2009).
py: 2009
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
cc: 
ut: User interfaces; institutional repositories; DSpace; usability evaluation
ci: 
li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_36
ab: Summary: In institutional repositories, simple discovery and submission
    interfaces help increase documents deposit as scholars have very little
    time to self-archive. So far, however, usability evaluation of such
    interfaces has been limited. In this paper, we present the usability
    evaluation of a repository interface, i.e., the interface of B\@bele,
    the DSpace installation of the Multimedia Production Centre (CPM) of
    the University Milano-Bicocca. The results of this evaluation point out
    the most important shortcomings of the present DSpace interface:
    difficulties with browsing within communities and collections; problems
    with the submission interface due to scarcely familiar terminology
    (metadata) or terms that are not relevant in the specific academic
    context (community); problems in the submission process due to some
    ambiguous buttons, to the lack of authority files, and to the lack of
    clearly marked compulsory fields. In this way, this study will help
    improve not only B\@bele, but also all other installations of DSpace
    currently available.
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