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Resources Discussion

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Which mailing lists to subscribe to?

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Decapod Working Sites

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Resources

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Community Contacts

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Clayton Lewis- may have other resources / contacts
Gabe @ Internet Archive
Accessibility Services UofT
JSTOR (Ann Arbor, John Burns)
Developers in the Ocropus community -> learn more about their projects, and who they're developing for

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To Explore at a Later Time

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Communities to Become Involved In

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Benchmarking

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Learn more about the current state of digital documents archiving and OCR (gain an understanding of the de facto standards, state of the art)
What's the user experience like on currently available digital documents archiving solution\n\t
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What's the workflow like in these solutions?\n\t
- Since we don't have access to most of these solutions, even a read through the literature on their websites, or better yet, their user manuals, might be a way to get at this
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Explore OCRopus

Map out features and functionality, discover what's possible and what's not\n\t
- i.e., freedom and constraints. These will translate into boundaries in the design and also allow us to identify where we might need OCRopus or our own backend to implement things.
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Install at least one copy at ATRC office

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Communicate

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Research

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Contextual Inquiries (Future work)

Create some user profiles (talk to potential archivers, or those knowledgeable about the ones doing archiving, etc.) --> possibly build some personas
Understand and analyze the trunk of the archiving work process, and the task branches (e.g., cleaning up, re-scanning, etc.)
Observe scanners in their environment (CI), interview the scanners, etc.
Extract goals (e.g., page quotas), locate pain points, etc.
Build use case scenarios (process, context, user environment, user goals)

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Possible CIs sites: ITS Internet Archives project, Accessibility Services / Students, JSTOR

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