Timeline and work packages

Timeline Work package 1: project management Ensure the timely delivery of all work packages to the required standard, and inform stakeholders about the project. Outputs Project plan   Project blog     Input for the support project    ...

New datasets for London history

Recently added to British History Online is the first in a series of datasets for early modern London. Generated by the People in Place project, each dataset is focussed on family and household in a group of London parishes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....

Aims and objectives: BHO usability case study

Goal Identify mitigating strategies for the problem of information overload across three generic types of site facility: category listings, product listings, and search (form and results). This will enable the project to show an improved return on investment to all of...

Reflections on practice following first interview

Just finished my first user interview yesterday and a few things came up that I thought other practitioners might benefit from. Reviewing the current state of the site went well – lengthy and detailed discussion, focussed on page outcomes with only a skeletal...

Programme Meeting for usability

Last Wednesday, we had a JISC programme meeting which all of the projects attended. There were some really high-profile projects there but I was suprised that so few ‘researchers’ attended – it was dominated by software professionals (I should...

Web usability and learnability

Web usability can loosely be defined as the ease with which someone can achieve a particular goal using a website. This might be buying a book, paying for a TV licence, registering for an event, or commenting on a historical source. Whatever the activity, the system...