[Taxacom] BHL new look revealed

Thu Mar 21 14:48:19 CDT 2013

The problem I have is with the search function. I am happy with the new
online viewer which is faster, but the search page is not useful. In my
browser I can practically not use the search function. Everything seems
very much distorted. There are screens where the search box is hidden
behind some colour bars. Also the list with the results looks much worse
than before. In the old system the results set was shown in a very clear
form and very useful.
I had used the search function of BHL very frequently, but now with the
new system I will certainly have to look for another method for finding
literature.

The BHL-Europe site is still worse, there I cannot even insert the search
items in the initial search page because moving pictures of books appear
directly in front of the search box and do not allow me to type a word in.
The BHL-US site does not have this extreme problem.

So in summary, the BHL search page and the results set is much worse (and
it had been very good before!), but the viewer is much better and has
improved considerably. It is very good that the URL deep links to the
pages inside books have remained the same, so that links from AnimalBase
did not become outdated.

Francisco

> Thanks everyone for your comments and feedback. We'll look into the UI
> issue that's raised.
>
> The UI problem seems that we are highlighting the first result type
> (Books/Journals) even when it is a null set.
>
> Perhaps that first results returned should highlight: a) none of the types
> of results b) the one with the most results c) just the result numbers
> (i.e. the number returned).
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Martin R. Kalfatovic
> Associate Director, Digital Services Division || Program Director,
> Biodiversity Heritage Library
> Smithsonian Institution Libraries
> email: kalfatovicm at si.edu
> tel: 202.633.1705
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Barkworth
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:16 AM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] BHL new look revealed
>
> Perhaps the emphasis should be on a new <b>look</b> revealed - and, from
> what someone said, searching is faster.  Work on creating many of the
> links must be in progress. I tried looking for a some names and decided
> that, at present, it will not be valuable for me. A search for each of
> Stipa arida  and Achnatherum aridum yielded no results; a seach for Stipa
> yielded 3, one of which was for an animal that includes the string stipa
> in its name.  So, nice idea - keep working on it.
> Mary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Donat Agosti
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:01 AM
> To: 'Paul Kirk'; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] BHL new look revealed
>
> Where are they?
> donat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Kirk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:12 PM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] BHL new look revealed
>
> ... and to IF I might add ... which already has links to the protologue
> for > 80,000 names for the benefit of mycologist (you know, those people
> who study the 'Forgotten Kingdom') world wide.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Donat Agosti
> Sent: 19 March 2013 08:20
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] BHL new look revealed
>
> On Monday, the biodiversity heritage library
> <http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/>  has revealed its new look.
> Congratulations
>
>
>
> As Rod in his blog
> <http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/new-look-biodiversity-heritage-library.html>
>  explains, one new feature is access to parts of the journals (the unit
> they serve), that is articles. A big step ahead. I hope
> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/115599971535973973155/posts/Ddxk49k4BwC>
> this is only the first step towards even more direct access to the
> treatments themselves, which would allow to link from IPNI or Zoobank
> directly to the protologs, and in general to first or redescriptions, as
> well as more efficient extraction of them and thus deal with the content
> many of us want. But this will need quiet some input from our side, but
> why not contribute for something that most of us just consume for free?
>
>
>
> Donat
>
>
>
>
>
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