Hiding our Collections in Plain Site: Interface Strategies for "Findability" 
Nate Solas, Walker Art Center, USA
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A recent redesign of the collection search interface for an on-line art education tool (ArtsConnectEd.org) has provided an opportunity to compare usage patterns between the two versions. In this paper I first survey current search interface design patterns, then discuss the new interface, the log cleanup and analysis, and finally present evidence-based recommendations that may be applied to the general problem of presenting large collections on-line.
Session: Collections: Tag / Search / Deploy - Part 1 [access]
Keywords: faceted search, browse, findability, log analysis, interface, art collection
MW2010: Nate Solas, Hiding our Collections in Plain Site: Interface Strategies for "Findability"
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