From: "Crowley, Bianca" <CrowleyB@si.edu>
Date: September 27, 2011 6:12:15 PM EDT
To: Chris Freeland <chris.freeland@mobot.org>
Cc: Trish Rose-Sandler <trisha.rose-sandler@mobot.org>, Mike Lichtenberg <mike.lichtenberg@mobot.org>
Subject: Re: PDF Generator survey feedback

so when are the changes going live exactly? I'd like to have a blog post and Grace needs to update the Help instructions.

On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Chris Freeland wrote:

I go back to my original statement: Mike did 5+ days worth of coding &
the two of you have done a lot of legwork in communicating with users.
It all tested as improvements.  Let's get these improvements out to
users now.  

If you look at our approved development priorities, PDF articlizing
improvements are to happen Q3-4, then again next year.  I could easily
see us making another pass at improving PDF UI based on user feedback by
the end of the year.

The other tasks on Mike's plate (db syncing with Australia, DOIs) need
his time.  I don't see the payoff in putting further development effort
into the PDF UI *right now* when everything tested as an improvement.

Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: Crowley, Bianca [mailto:CrowleyB@si.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:09 PM
To: Trish Rose-Sandler
Cc: Chris Freeland; Mike Lichtenberg
Subject: Re: PDF Generator survey feedback

Obviously I'm in agreement with Trish. I think testing for the "next
round" would coincide nicely with the testing in October. The advantage
to rolling out the beta changes now would mean that we could test BHL US
& BHL AU Pdf generator interfaces that are more closely aligned.

Bianca

On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Trish Rose-Sandler wrote:

The comments I think are worth discussing as a group because I'd like to
know which ones  are easy fixes and which are hard.  Most of the
comments surround the page select feature and none of those were ones we
targeted for proposed changes.

Can we clarify when the "next round" will be ?   Will that be this fall
or much farther into the future?

Trish Rose-Sandler
Data Analyst, Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI) Missouri
Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO
(314) 577-9473 x6396
skype: trish.rose1

________________________________
From: Chris Freeland
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:00 PM
To: Trish Rose-Sandler; Mike Lichtenberg
Cc: 'Crowley, Bianca'
Subject: RE: PDF Generator survey feedback

Trish, Bianca - I'm not sure I see the payoff in delaying  the release
of the code in beta.  From my reading of the responses, the feedback is
overwhelmingly positive.  Some of the more interesting comments (click
to select first & last page) have been on the wish list for years, but
are technically difficult.  I would rather see us get the cut in beta
out and start getting better metadata tomorrow than holding off &
putting more into the development pipeline.  To say it another way, I'd
rather go with what's tested positively in beta & put the other
suggestions into a queue for the next round of development.
________________________________
From: Trish Rose-Sandler
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:14 AM
To: Chris Freeland; Mike Lichtenberg
Cc: 'Crowley, Bianca'
Subject: PDF Generator survey feedback
Chris and Mike

Bianca and I have reviewed the survey feedback about the PDF Generator.
60 of the 100 users we sent it to filled it out which was a surprisingly
high response rate.  The responses were largely in favor of the changes
we are proposing however, we did receive a considerable number of
additional comments that gave us pause in moving these changes forward
so quickly.  Based on the comments we feel there could be further
improvements made to the generator but we would like to do some
in-person usability testing that would allow users to compare the
generator in the US interface and the AUS interface.  We think we could
identify the most problematic issues by testing 2-3 users and are
proposing that Bianca and I take on this task in the next week.  It
turns out Bianca will be here next Tuesday in addition to Monday which
gives us the opportunity to test some users onsite at BHL with both of
us as observers.

We're wondering what you think?  We have attached a summary of the
survey responses if you'd like to review them yourselves.  Bianca has
highlighted some of the more interesting comments

Trish Rose-Sandler
Data Analyst, Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI) Missouri
Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO
(314) 577-9473 x6396
skype: trish.rose1

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