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This chapter focuses on the interaction between researchers and the data they create and work with, that is, the user interface (UI). This chapter starts with a short history of UIs as a means of understanding attitudes towards technology. It describes different types of users of research resources, and how their background in the discipline and/or digital methods affects the way they interact with the data. The chapter goes on to outline different scenarios and solutions appropriate to each; and gives a specific example of a complex web application with a UI designed for different users and devices. Finally, it outlines some well-established principles for designing UIs.
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The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) released its first official standard in 1994, http://www.tei-c.org/About/history.xml.
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Manuscript 1009 fol. in the Old Royal Collection (GKS), Royal Library in Copenhagen, fol. 2v/22.
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E. F. Codd, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks,” Communications of the ACM 13, no. 6 (1970): 377–387.
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James Knirk, Helle Degnbol, Bent Chr. Jacobsen, Eva Rode, Christopher Sanders, and þorbjörg Helgadóttir, eds., A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose/ Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog (Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Kommission, 1989).
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Note that you may require ethics approval before conducting any research that involves gathering any kind of personal information from the public.
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Tarrin Wills, “Relational Data Modelling of Textual Corpora: The Skaldic Project and Its Extensions,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 30, no. 2 (2015): 294–313.
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Mitchell Whitelaw, “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2015), accessed May 5, 2018, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/1/000205/000205.html; Iwe Muiser, Mariet Theune, Ruud de Jong, Nigel Smink, Rudolf Berend Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, and Theo Meder, “Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections: The Case of the Dutch Folktale Database,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11, no. 4 (2017), accessed May 5, 2018, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/4/000327/000327.html.
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Codd, E. F. “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.” Communications of the ACM 13, no. 6 (1970): 377–387.
Knirk, James, Helle Degnbol, Bent Chr. Jacobsen, Eva Rode, Christopher Sanders, and þorbjörg Helgadóttir, eds. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose/ Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Kommission, 1989.
Muiser, I., M. Theune, R. de Jong, N. Smink, R. B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra, and T. Meder. “Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections: The Case of the Dutch Folktale Database.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11, no. 4 (2017). Accessed May 5, 2018. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/4/000327/000327.html.
Whitelaw, Mitchell. “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2015). Accessed May 5, 2018. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/1/000205/000205.html.
Wills, Tarrin. “Relational Data Modelling of Textual Corpora: The Skaldic Project and Its Extensions.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 30, no. 2 (2015): 294–313.
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Wills, T. (2018). User Interfaces for Creating Digital Research. In: levenberg, l., Neilson, T., Rheams, D. (eds) Research Methods for the Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96713-4_15
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