Usability Testing Notes – May 2021
Building Translation and Transcription Functionality (for CLIR grant)
Summary of findings for adding Translation/Transcription Functionality to Digital Collections:
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Note: this issue has been resolved, and is related . Related to a parallel issue of our user’s understanding of the child work hierarchy system within the Digital Collections.
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All users searched for “newton manuscript” and clicked on first hit, which was this one: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8tcwf69
User 1:
Prompt:
-You open this Newton manuscript. You are looking for a transcription or translation. Where do you look?
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Ability to do a full-text search and then cut and paste translations. Would rely on transcriptions and translations during research, but would be nice to double-check against the original digitized manuscript before publishing.
User 2:
Prompt:
-You open this Newton manuscript. You are looking for a transcription or translation. Where do you look?
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Doesn’t like how ECHO makes you page through 10 pages of thumbnails at a time. Prefers this page: https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/auction-catalog/MAPS_ATLASES_NATURAL_HISTORY_COLOR_PLATE_BOOKS?saleno=2571&orderby=1 ,
User sees first 60 lots and then clicks "Load More" to append the next 60, etc. This allows the user to look back over what has already loaded without having to re-load those from the server.
User 3:
Prompt:
-You open this Newton manuscript. You are looking for a transcription or translation. Where do you look?
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