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User Requirements

Christopher Pollin edited this page Sep 22, 2020 · 2 revisions

User Requirements

Description of user requirements for an information system using data in historical accounts

Discovery of Data

  • browsing through entities inside the documents (like browsing through all commodities
  • indicies (person, place)
  • Search by name to find their financial relationship with HH -- donor, resident, employee, vendor. Be able to trace that over time.
  • discover the "small narratives" inside the records

InfoVis

  • interactive maps
  • interactive timelines
  • visualize changes in income and expenditures as a whole or by departments
  • see the "big pictures"
  • visualize over time

Views

  • facsimile

Text

  • transcription
  • digital Edition

Indices

  • sorting of indices

Datafication (Data-View)

  • dual display of text and data

Export of Data

  • download of indices (e.g. person, taxonomy)
  • CSV-Export
  • Spreadsheet
  • TEI-Export

Retrieval / Search

  • search by person/name search
  • "drill down" search; facted search

Reuse of Data

  • reuse in other systems
  • Linked Open Data

Longterm Preservation

Analyses

  • ability to calculate parts of data
  • statistical analyses

Contextualization of Data

  • information about the source
  • information about the single record

Research

Local and Family History