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Designing a search user interface for a digital library

✍ Scribed by Lynne Davis

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 83 KB
Volume: 57
Category: Article
ISSN: 1532-2882
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20293

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The author describes some of the challenges, decisions, and processes that affected the design and development of the search user interface for Version 2 of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE; www.dlese.org), released July 29, 2003. The DLESE is a community‐led effort funded by the National Science Foundation and is part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).

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