Gallery
Screenshots of some examples of websites and web applications that I created or was involved in developing over my career.
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MacEwan University Library website redesign project. Managed and facilitated the MacEwan Library website redesign project, drafting a project charter document which provided the overview, scope, project plan, staffing, and issues associated with the planned website redesign project. Secured a contract with a website design company, Paper Leaf, and coordinated Paper Leaf development activities with our own website development efforts. Designed a website usability testing exercise, recruited student and faculty testers, conducted website usability testing sessions, coordinated focused website feedback sessions with Library staff, and communicated the testers' and staff feedback to the new website development team. (2017–2018).
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Canada's Libraries and Archives: RSC Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada's Libraries and Archives. Developed the CWRC-hosted Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada's Libraries and Archives mapping and timeline application, which used the SIMILE Exhibit data publishing framework to display the location of, and the year of establishment for, many of the libraries and archives of Canada; the visualization application was included as part of the RSC Expert Panel's report The Future Now: Canada's Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory (Royal Society of Canada; 2014). CWRC (the Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture, formerly the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) is a national digital content platform with allied research tools to support the study and preservation of Canadian literary and cultural history. (A short video about the project can be accessed here.) (2014).
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Answers to Alzheimer's Questions: An Experimental Online Vertical File. Designed and created an RDF/XML metadata web application featuring web resources related to Alzheimer's disease that was an experimental online version of the traditional library vertical file, part of a larger research project at the University of Western Ontario comparing traditional library information systems with the emerging standards and protocols of the Semantic Web. (2007).
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CAM in UME Digital Resource Respository. Designed and developed a digital resource repository application using a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack for the Canada-wide CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) in UME (Undergraduate Medical Education) Project out of the University of Calgary. Repository features included searching via Boolean operators, field qualification, field limits, wildcard operators, and nested searching; browsing via hypertext linked peer-reviewed summaries on CAM topics; browsing via hypertext linked controlled MeSH subject terms (descriptors) applied to describe the content of each resource; and a submission process so users could submit CAM-related resources for inclusion into the repository. (2005–2010).
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Alvin M. Schrader faculty website. Designed and developed Alvin Schrader's (Professor [Faculty 1982–2009], School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta) faculty website. (2004–2006).
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TAL Online. Developed extended services for, and resources integration within, the Java-based bibliographic search tool TAL Online (using OCLC's SiteSearch set of tools), a virtual union catalog maintained by The Alberta Library (a province-wide library consortium) providing unified access to the catalogs of hundreds of libraries across Alberta (academic, public, and special libraries). In 2002, the TAL Online team was awarded the LibraryNet Best Practices Award by Industry Canada and LibraryNet for innovation in a library communication and technology project—features that I had developed in TAL Online were mentioned in the announcement of the award. (2000–2002).
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Robert E. Brundin faculty website. Designed and developed Robert Brundin's (Professor [Faculty 1975–1995], School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta) faculty website. (1998–2000).
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Experimental library catalog. Developed an experimental web-based library catalog for a reference book collection using Perl CGI scripts and SSI directives at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. Reference collection catalog features included field-specific searching (title, author, subject), Boolean operator applied searching (AND, OR), and string phrase searching (exact query phrase); an experimental search interface to facilitate subject searching of the catalog by using a thesaurus of hyperlinked LCSH subject terms; and logging of both catalog web page visits as well as catalog search queries, thus making possible user activity analyses and transaction log analyses. (1997–1998).
