mc schraefel
mc schraefel is a Senior Lecturer in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton. Her focus is on research in Human Computer Interaction, particularly interaction design for improved access to information. She has applied her expertise to the the EPrints user experience, producing a series of recommendations for the next generation of EPrints releases. Her three-part report will be made available to EPrints Community members for comment and discussion:
Part 1: The EPrints Self-Archiving Experience examines the process of depositing items in terms of the user's primary goals: simplicity and flexibility. Part 2: The EPrints Access Experience examines the process of getting access to items in the repository via searching and browsing, and explores the potential of information visualisation interfaces for EPrints. Part 3: EPrints Integration With EPrints considers the role of EPrints as a facilitator of dynamic collections - collections which span physical repositories and which can be pulled together on demand.
Mike Jewell
Mike Jewell is a Research Assistant at the University of Southampton, whose interests include automatic media annotation, computer-controlled music composition, and ontologies for multimedia. He is currently working on the EPrints submission workflow. By overhauling the way in which the EPrints configuration files describe the submission process, his work will allow IR administrators to easily specify the steps users will need to take to deposit different types of documents and media files, and in what order. For example, allowing users to upload their article in the very first step opens up all sorts of possibilities for semi-automatically extracting metadata, saving the user lots of typing in later steps!
As well as the technical side of the submission workflow, Mike will also be considering how the end user experience of depositing an item can be improved in response to mc schraefel's evaluation of The EPrints Self-Archiving Experience (see above).
This is not Mike's first valuable contribution to the ongoing development of EPrints - in the past he has worked on internationalisation and installation as well as connected projects relating to automatic reference extraction and RAE CV generation.
Tim Brody
Tim Brody is a Research Assistant at the University of Southampton whose research has focused on harvesting, bibliometric analysis and data mining of the Open Access published research literature. He has produced several online services, including Citebase Search, a citation service for the arXiv.org physics and maths research repository which ranks articles by citation and web impact, and the Institutional Archives Registry which lists active Open Access repositories worldwide. He also worked on the TARDis project, which fed several inferface improvements into the EPrints codebase, including help notes and citation styles.
Tim is currently contributing to the EPrints submission workflow effort.