This document gives feedback on the eLib Technical Issues Concertation day, held at the University of London Computing Centre on 8th November 1996. Note that 19 evaluation forms returned out of a possible 34.
| Question | Rating (1-5 with 5 excellent) | Comments |
| The Publicity was Adequate | 3 | "Didn't know soon enough" "We need to use a list other than the managers list - but I think we knew that. We need to get dates in diaries sooner" |
| Duration of the day was adequate | 3 | "Tried to cover too much in one day" "We need more days like this!" "Allowed for "attendee input" which was good" "A day focused on each of the breakout group topics would be useful" |
| Adequate time for group discussion | 4 | "Not enough time - but there never is!" Some useful, some not |
| Informal Demonstrations were useful | 3 | "There weren't any demonstrations!" |
| Day's programme was applicable to the work I do on the project | 4 | "[no] but that was my problem - I learned a lot" |
| Day made me aware of the wider Digital Library community | 4 | "[yes] and also about how little inter-project awareness there is" |
| As a result what will you do differently? | 4 | "Find out about all the things I didn't know about!" "Post more technical questions on the lis-elib list" " We now know people who can swap info - better than talking to faceless email addresses - now we know who's on the other end." "not a lot - I think we could do with a lottery process in Special Interest Groups before the concertation day" "check with the proposed tech-elib list that we'r not re-inventing the wheel" "communicate with other projects more - I'm aware everyone's got similar problems" "join lis-elib" "try to contact techies within eLib" "wider discussion - will join lis-elib" |
| The UK Web Focus could/should do the following to help me: | 4 | "control store of reference doc's/links would be useful" "time will tell" "find out about new devleopments and disseminate information in concise user-friendly chunks" "represent UK at W3C, promote standards, and non-proprietary soluations" |
| Topics for another day: | z39.50 Further developments of topics dicussed during the day Authentication/Security Server user analysis |
Last updated 13-Nov-96
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN, University of Bath