ui design for open data v02 nov 2014
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How can design help us communicate data easily to users? Where does this stem from? What methods of design are easy for users to engage with? What should we be trying to achieve with these designs? The cultural sector is a big adopter of open data and semantic web technologies. They have embraced the ideas and are weaving them into everything they do. So, who is doing what? What data sets are there available? And how have these been presented to the public. Using case studies from the cultural sector, we will explore the practical challenges associated with complex UI designs. Looking at work-in-progress through to finished products we will discuss best practice, finding innovation, and the challenges of working with data sets.TRANSCRIPT
Hollie LubbockUX / Visual designer at Bureau for Visual Affairs in London @hollielubbock !
Overview1. How design can help communicate data 2. Who in the cultural sector is using open data 3. Case studies: using UI to help users
Section 1: Why I think design is awesome when it comes to data
Can infographics change lives?
Invisible Airs, YoHaODI data as culture
What should we be trying to achieve with design?
What should we be trying to achieve with design?• Clear simple presentations
What should we be trying to achieve with design?• Clear simple presentations • Allow users to make up their own mind
What should we be trying to achieve with design?• Clear simple presentations • Allow users to make up their own mind • Inspire users to create something with the data
Section 2 The cultural sector
The cultural sector is a big adopter of open data and semantic web technologies.
So, who is doing what?
Tate Modern collections data https://github.com/tategallery/collection
Great collection of resources here: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
How have these been presented to the public?
How have these been presented to the public?
!• They drive the collections searches on their
own sites.
How have these been presented to the public?
!• They drive the collections searches on their
own sites. • They are moving towards 5* open data
How have these been presented to the public?
!• They drive the collections searches on their
own sites. • They are moving towards 5* open data • Using schema.org style systems to add value to
their data.
Dimensions of art:@jradavenport
What’s next?
Common thesauri being developed
Developing APIs
Hackdays
Requirement of government funding?
In the pipeline at the Barbican
Why are museums doing this?
Section 3Stuff I’ve made
A ramble through old work, new work & work in progress
Data as a pulse of relevance or trends !
Royal Shakespeare Company http://tinyurl.com/m2yz5hp
Bureau for Visual Affairs
Using open data as an enhancement
V&A museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/
the other media
A collection of collections
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische
Yale Centre for British Art
British Museum
Visualisation challenges
How would you like to search?
Open as a core value
Southbank Centre http://digital.southbankcentre.co.uk/
Bureau for Visual Affairs
Open platform Open community Open content Open vocabulary Open data Open process
robgethers/status/496573818841083904/
http://digital.southbankcentre.co.uk/wire-framing-the-new-sc-website/
Follow our progress here: http://digital.southbankcentre.co.uk/
I think we should be helping people engage with open data and data in general as much as possible.
It just being available isn’t enough, it needs to be engaging and accessible to people. !
I think we can go along way towards this by using design.
