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Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Names Access Project
Suzanne Ginsburg
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Motivation• Contribute to Holocaust Survivor community
• Develop system that people need
• Create “real world” project
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Holocaust Museum Internship• Became familiar with organizational structure
• Gathered task analysis information
– Interviewed Registry staff
– Observed visitors search Survivors Registry
– Collected relevant documents
– Researched other search services
– Listened and asked lots of questions...
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Problems• No central resource
• Each resource organized differently
• Spelling variations, errors, and multiple names
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Goals• Provide central point of access
• Alleviate problems associated with spelling and name variations
• Support alternative search strategies
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Target users• Survivors
• Friends and relatives of survivors and victims
• Survivors Registry staff
• Genealogists
• General public
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Proposed backend solutions• Inquiry
• SQL Server, Cold Fusion, and Inquiry
• SQL Server and Cold Fusion
– Link back to original databases
• SQL Server and Cold Fusion
– Create master database, “UniList”
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Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
French Deportation Lists
Auschwitz PrisonerRecords
Survivors Registry
SurnameMaiden nameForenameDOBPOB
NamePrevious nameOther nameDOBPOB
First nameLast nameDOBPOB
Merged database
Lodz Ghetto
First nameLast nameDOBPOB
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Person
Names
Places
Dates
Media
Family
Source
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
UI Iterative design process
Task Analysis
Lo-fi
First interactive
Heuristic evaluation Pilot user study
Second interactive Final interactive[
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Design
Testing December MayMarch April
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Key interface features
• Search
– Soundex
– Thesaurus
– Date range
• Browse names by surname and birthplace
• Cross-links
– More records about this person
– Family members’ records
• Sample traces, search support, related resources
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Pilot user study• Goals
• Participants
• Procedure
• Results
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Next steps• Annotation tools
• Researcher tools and views
• Online submissions and corrections
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
Special thanks to..
Bob Twitty and Michael Haley-Goldman
Professors Hearst, Besser, Cooper, Braunstein
Usability test participants
SIMS classmates
Names Access Project
May 12, 1999
“How rare that someone actually does something
useful with the Web...”
