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Session Spotlight: Unconference
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Presenter:
Jill MacNeice; Information Architect, Library of Congress; USA
Title:
Design for Findability: metadata, metrics and collaboration on LOC.gov
Day/Date:
Friday, July 12, 2013
Time:
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Columbia 3
Session Type:
60 Minute Presentation
Description:
The Library of Congress has 2.2 million digitized searchable items online, including 89,000 web pages, and catalog records, books, musical scores, films, newspapers and 1 million plus images.
How does anyone ever find anything?
In Design for Findability, I’ll talk about what the Library of Congress is doing on the interface, in the back end, and at the institutional level, to make content and objects on LOC.gov more findable. And I invite you to share your own efforts to enhance findability on your sites. The goal is to create a framework for findability that be used for many different types of sites.
Audience:
Advanced Practitioners
Track:
Design, Government
Biography:
Jill MacNeice is a user experience professional and information architect at the Library of Congress, with a focus on findability and user research and testing. She has been on the Web since the early 1990s and has worked for government, a Fortune 100 company, a startup, and, at the height of the dotcom boom, an interactive agency. She is passionate about understanding users, anticipating their needs and minimizing their frustrations, collaborating across the organization, and going deep or broad – whatever is necessary to get the job done.
