Sustainable design for multiple audiences: The usability study and iterative redesign of the Documenting the American South digital library

OCLC Systems and Services

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 285-299

  Norberg, Lisa R ^a   Vassiliadis, Kim ^a   Ferguson, Jean ^b   Smith, Natasha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Digital libraries; Heritage; United States of America

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; HERITAGE; ITERATIVE PROCESS; SUSTAINABLE DESIGN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

CELL CULTURE; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 31044438215     PISSN: 1065075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650750510629625     Document Type: Article

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