Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] An experimental user interface to MyExperiment

[Ross Gardler]

I should have made it clear. This work will be open source and if the
community here wants it we'd be happy for the MyExperiment widgets to
live here.

Ross

On 3 August 2011 17:27, Ross Gardler <address@hidden> wrote:
> As part of the Rave in Context project (funded by the JISC) we will be
> building an experimental user interface for MyExperiment and a couple
> of other useful research tools. With this mail I want to ask for your
> input on the project.
>
> This work is not designed to replace the existing UIs, it is intended
> to make MyExperiment usable in different ways. The premise is that
> whilst the web UI does a perfectly good job of providing feature rich
> interactions with the MyExperiment system it is not ideally suited to
> working with MyExperiment data in other ways and via mobile devices
> with small screens.
>
> The Rave in Context project is building an experimental widget based
> user interface to MyExperiment, OpenDOAR listed repositories and the
> Simal project registry. The goal is to demonstrate that it is possible
> to build a simple and accessible user interface to multiple systems
> that can adapt to the changing needs of a researcher accessing the
> system in different ways.
>
> Widgets are HTML+Javascript+CSS applications that are packaged using a
> W3C specification so that they can be deployed in different
> environments. The widgets we build will be deployable on many
> platforms such as Wordpress, Drupal, Elgg etc.
> A key focus of this project is to ensure that the widgets are usable,
> learnable and accessible.
>
> One way we will be enhancing the usability of the three systems
> together is by providing a single web based portal that will provide a
> unified user interface to each of the three systems (MyExperiment,
> OpenDOAR and Simal).
>
> Let me repeat, we are not seeking to replace the existing MyExperiment
>  interface. We are only building widgets for a few key features that
> might be useful if exposed in other systems. We intend to work through
> the published api and SPARQL endpoint.
>
> In many ways widgets are similar to Google Gadgets (indeed in the
> final application Google Gadgets will be deployable alongside
> widgets). Of course MyExperiement has already done some experiments
> with Google Gadgets [1].
>
> So, how can you help. We are looking for a handful of users willing
> and able to take part in some initial user testing of paper mockups of
> the initial feature set. This will give the MyExperiment community an
> opportunity to feedback on what and how we implement these features
> and hopefully help create an new way of exposing your workflows in
> MyExperiment.
>
> Naturally we'll be paying expenses.
>
> Any takers? (or any questions?)
>
> Ross
>
> [1] http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Developer:Google_Gadgets
>
> --
> Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
> Programme Leader (Open Development)
> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
>



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Ross Gardler (@rgardler)
Programme Leader (Open Development)
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com