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<\/a>Software design<\/p><\/div>\n
Oh dear, when I logged in to WP, I got a message saying it was being updated. \u00a0What, I thought, can they do to make it less user-friendly than it is now? It’s a powerful tool, but I really find it clumsy to use, like driving a car with the steering wheel in the back, and the windows on the top and bottom. Might be fast, \u00a0but…<\/p>\n
Speaking of software, here is my assessment of what we are using so far:<\/p>\n
WordPress: very complete, good for our limited use, but still more complicated<\/strong> than it should be.<\/p>\n Scanning software: great, intuitive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Libguides: easy enough to do what we are doing, but a cognitive torture when I view it. Just too much of a jumble<\/strong> on the screen.<\/p>\n Photoshop: The industry standard is NOT a software you can just step in and use. And how is it possible that they haven’t enabled batch processing<\/strong> that is as robust as the freeware Jenn (our class heroine of the day)\u00a0showed us?<\/p>\n Omeka: Good, straightforward functionality, but needs to incorporate a batch upload function for the Dropbox. It also ought to \u00a0provide at least a thumbnail<\/strong> of the item you are working on as you insert the metadata, and create a temporary title<\/strong> taken from the file name, instead of that stupid “untitled”.<\/p>\n I am glad we are doing the metadata discussion this week, because than we can move on with more confidence to the actual cataloging of our collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh dear, when I logged in to WP, I got a message saying it was being updated. \u00a0What, I thought, can they do to make it less user-friendly than it is now? It’s a powerful tool, but I really … Continue reading