How misspelling might save you money…

The conference features sixteen sessions with over fifty papers by speakers from thirteen countries, sixteen pre-conference workshops, a commercial exhibition, and an advanced technologies fair. Additional opportunities for interaction and learning include special technical briefing sessions, and “birds-of-a-feather” and special interest group continental breakfasts.

Bits, bytes and building blocks: the multimedia strategy at the National Gallery of Victoria and the role of documentation as a foundation for multimedia development

Mit Theorien, Visionen und Praxismodellen versuchte die Tagung “CultH - Zukunft des /digitalen/ kulturellen Erbes” eine Annäherung an Fragen der Kulturvermittlung im digitalen Zeitalter
Die Archivierung des kulturellen Erbes ist ein gravierendes Problem: während unsere Bibliotheken buchstäblich zu Staub zerfallen und auch andere Datenträger nicht vor dem Zerfall gefeit sind, wendet sich die Aufmerksamkeit der Archivare den neuen Technologien zu. Ist Digitalisierung die Lösung für das Problem der kulturellen Überlieferung? Mit dem komplexen Thema der Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes beschäftigte sich zum zweiten Mal die Tagung [1]”CultH - Cultural Heritage in the Global Village” im Museumsquartier Wien
aus: heise / Frank Hartmann 20.01.2002

Providing navigational aids to assist users in finding information in hypertext systems has been an ongoing research problem for well over a decade. Despite this, the incorporation of navigational aids into Web search tools has been slow. While search engines have become very efficient in producing high quality rankings, support for the navigational process is still far from satisfactory. To deal with this shortcoming of search tools, we have developed a site specific search and navigation engine that incorporates several recommended navigational aids into its novel user interface, based on the concept of a user trail. Herein, we report on a usability study whose aim was to ascertain whether adding semi-automated navigational aids to a search tool improves users’ experience when “surfing” the Web. The results we obtained from the study revealed that users of the navigation engine performed better in solving the question set posed than users of a conventional search engine. Moreover, users of the navigation engine provided more accurate answers in less time and with less clicks. Our results indicate that adding navigational aids to search tools will enhance Web usability and take us a step further towards resolving the problem of “getting lost in hyperspace”.

Abel Lenz Insists That Information Architecture Really Is A Creative Pursuit

“The medium is the message,” is Marshall McLuhan’s most frequently quoted and least understood mantra. It basically means: The fact that we watch television AT ALL affects us more profoundly than any single piece of “content” we watch on television. Each communications medium has its own inherent characteristics and ways of impacting people, regardless of the “content” sent via that medium. And the web is a communications medium.

The official definition of SCRAN is that it is a searchable online resource base of one million text and multimedia records.

Aufregende und detailgetreue Darstellung der Kathedrale. Realitätsnahe Eindrücke.