ui design for open data
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Good design can increase the value of open data to the public and industry professionals. But what is open data and how can it be used? The focus of this talk is using design to aid the release of knowledge from within cultural institutions. But it isn’t just about museums: I’ll be discussing the challenges of designing for complex UIs in general and how we can use narrative to inform and guide the user through abstract interactions. Designer @bureau_va RSC projects and Researchspace © Bureau for Visual Affairs V&A © OthermediaTRANSCRIPT
Hollie Lubbock
UI design for open data
@hollielubbock www.hollielubbock.co.uk
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— User experience / designer— Many cultural institutions— Museums, galleries some commercial
Back ground for some projects
— data as inspiration— designing the data— helping users see the possibilities of data
What is open data?
— free to use— ideally easy to reuse & remix — available in an accessible format— part of the larger semantic web— Tim Berners Lee 5 star system
http://opendefinition.org/od/http://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data
Use in the semantic web
The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
How can it be used?
£200m possible saving to nhs by switching to a generic drug
http://theodi.org/blog/a-new-era-of-data-innovation
£200m possible savings
— nhs is the National Health Service— On one single type of medication— Found by analyzing open data— in 8 weeks— many more savings possible
Mastodon C (ODI start up)
http://theodi.org/blog/a-new-era-of-data-innovation
How can it be used?
Invisible Airs, YoHa (ODI data as culture)
http://vimeo.com/32030340
Why visualization is important
Data skills will become more important as data plays a larger part in our lives
— raw data isn’t easy to interpret— maps, graphs etc. easier to digest
Visualization in history
Florence Nightingale: Causes of Mortality infographic from 1858
So how is this working in the cultural sector?
— common thesauri being developed (cidoc crm)— sharing collections data — Tate (art gallery) — Victoria & Albert museum (uk design museum)— developing Api’s
http://www.cidoc-crm.orghttp://www.vam.ac.uk/api/qb/https://github.com/tategallery/collection
The Future
— maybe a requirement for government funding— GDShavestartedthisoffinUK
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
What happens when museums get together and share?
Researchspace
— prototype— tool for academics to collaborate — cross collections searching— common thesauri / taxonomy — RDF triple store at the heart
http://www.researchspace.org/
How would we ideally like to search?
— search based on sentence structure
Visualization challenges
— definingthesearchterm(freebase)
Visualization challenges
— helping the user learn the interface
Visualization challenges
— representing a complex SPARQL query
Demo...
http://vimeo.com/94547832
Data as a pulse of relevance / trends
Royal Shakespeare Company
— showing how Shakespeare is relevant — datafromebay,flickrandtwitter— Twitter API change (not working now)
http://myshakespeare.rsc.org.uk/banquo/
Using open data as an enhancement
Victoria & Albert Museum
— world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, — collection of over 4.5 million objects— founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/http://www.othermedia.com/data/files/othermedia-vawebsite-qa-5.pdf
Navigation
—reflectedorganisationalstructure— not helpful for users— is there a better way?
Using open data as an enhancement
— based on search— templatingonthefly— uses semantic web to draw in relevant topics from external sites— exposed thesauri
http://www.vam.ac.uk/http://www.othermedia.com/data/files/othermedia-vawebsite-qa-5.pdf
The internal fight over the homepage
On the fly templating
— system cached for popular topics
Topic or Theme hubs
Enhancing the topic
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