WP3 tackles end-user engagement: i.e. subject specialists who lack the technical coding expertise to use the data underlying what is seen on the screen. The visualization service has been exploring ways of allowing these users to get to grips with the data both in a single Pelagios interface but also as embedded widgets hosted on […]
The Pelagios widgets are small applications that you can put on your website to allow users of your site to see data from Pelagios partners.There are two widgets, one to display information about places you mention on your site, the other allows people to search for information related to places. Pelagios Place Widget The first […]
‘Ancient mashup‘ (thanks to flunitrazepam) We weren’t 100% sure so we asked a few (and some of them weren’t sure either, but that’s understandable and useful to know). The 23 people we asked were suggested by Elton and a other Pelagios partners, and 12 folk responded. This post describes: Who the respondents are in terms […]
I said in my last post that I’d report on technical and legal issues raised by repsondents to our questionnaire. I’m going to delay reporting on requirements for apps because I’ve still got a couple of things to clarify, but hope to be able to publish something about Pelagios apps next week. In the meantime, […]
This is the second in a series of posts about users’ requirements for Pelagios apps and widgets. The first post set the scene, and this one describes some of our initial findings from the “super user” group. The questions we asked were about Thanks to docpop for the pic. the target audience(s) for the apps and widgets […]
This is the first in a series of posts about users’ requirements for the Pelagios visualization service. The visualization service will be implemented as a set of web apps and widgets that will “enable providers, end-users and developers to find, visualize and build upon geospatial connections between openly available resources” (JISC Pelagios2 project summary). To […]