1994-01-16
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ANOTHER EFFORT TO MAKE GOPHER SYSTEMS EASIER TO USE
"The William H. Welch Medical Library has released a new biomedical
gopher, the Welch Medical Library Gopher.  The team that has
developed this gopher is taking a somewhat non-traditional approach
to organizing its menus selecting a task organization.  We would be
very interested in hearing other developers thoughts about this
design scheme.  The idea is that users connecting to the gopher
commonly have a task in mind.  For instance they want to find
research supporting resources, or they want to check up on the
news, or they are looking for information on patient care.
To accommodate this desire on the part of users we have created the
following top level menu design.

     1.  Using this gopher server/
     2.  Welch Medical Library resources and services/
     3.  Basic science research resources/
     4.  Caring for patients/
     5.  Exploring the Internet/
     6.  Finding people on the Internet/
     7.  Funding resources/
     8.  Health policy resources/
     9.  Hopkins resources and services/
     10. Keeping up with the news/
     11. Scientific writing and publishing resources/
     12. Teaching, education, and course resources/

One consequence of this design is that many resources are useful
for  several tasks and thus there is a lot of redundancy in the
resources  listed.  We have also had to point to resources
relatively deeply embedded in other gopher servers.  Merely
pointing to the NIH gopher is not sufficient, with the funding menu
we have to pinpoint the NIH funding information while we point to
NIH patient care resources under our third menu option."  We have
undertaken this level of maintence complexity in the belief that we
are adding a lot of value to these resources by adopting the
task-based organizational scheme."

It can be accessed by gophering to
welchlink.welch.jhu.edu.  Specific comments can be sent to
Karla Hahn <[email protected]>


~ via [NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY : January 17, 1994]
 http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/NETCOMMUNITY/net_com.009


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