NIMS/Feedback on R4 GUI

Here is feedbacks on new R4 GUI from NIMS. The feedbacks include UI-specific issues and bugs/feature requests.

• Date: 2009-01-20
• Place: Scientific Information Office at NIMS (Sengen, Tsukuba, Japan)
• Participants: Core members at our office ( User:Masao, Shingo, and Mikiko )

Feedbacks

ViewItemFull

• Wording "Visibility" is a little bit ambiguous. ("show/hide" label is enough to understand. Maybe we can omit this header.)

Submission

• The links "Easy/Full Submission" and "Import" in "Submission Start" page and the collection name links seem to be just a label. So, there is a concern that novice users are confused with a next action they need to go to.
• The "(more)" foldings in the descriptions at SubmissionStart and ChooseCollection pages are not necessarily needed. If a description is not too long, we can browse it at a time without scrolling.
  • A "(more)" link appeared, even if the description was short and all of it was displayed.
• The selection on "Review type" is desirable in the order of "Peer", "None", and "Internal". ("internal review" will be the most infrequent choice, i guess.)
• The label "* mandatory field" at the bottom of the pages are desirable to be located at the top of the page. And the label should be the same style as at the form fields (i.e. in red color).

Easy Submission

STEP1: Generally, this is not as good as R3. (impressions from participants)

• The action links "Upload file" and "Save" for files and locators seems to be not a action link, just a normal text.
• "File property" form is desirable to be displayed in default.
  • Due to these two problems, it seems that a depositor will be confused when the depositor upload a file and then click "Next" button. In that case, an error message of "An attached file is missing a content type (e.g. Abstract, Pre-print, etc.)." will be shown at the top of the page. That behavior is confused because (s)he seems not to be able to find such additional forms beforehand.
    • The error message above should be "A content type for an attached is missing..."???

STEP2

• The order of creator type selection is preferable as "Author", "Editor", "Contributor", and others. (These three roles will be more frequent ones than others.)
• It is not clear how to use the "Add multiple" feature
  • What is the separator among multiple authors? (A comma, semicolon, or others?)
  • Is it possible to add affiliations at one time? if ok, how to add it?
• (general question) Is this support a middle name?

STEP3

• It is desirable to add explanation for the date specification. (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD)

Graphical User Interface

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