From CRUD to CREAM: Imagining a rich scholarly repository interface

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Moroz, Ashley
  • Sellmer, Megan
  • Radzikowska, Milena
  • Arazy, Ofer
  • Rockwell, Geoffrey
  • Ruecker, Stan
  • Brown, Susan

• This article addresses the design of a dynamic repository interface to support numerous scholarly activities. Starting with the four fundamental functions associated with persistent storage — create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) — we tested, as an organizing rubric for the interface, the acronym CREAM: Create (represent, illustrate); Read (sample, read); Enhance (refer, annotate, process); Analyze (search, select, visualize, mine, cluster); and Manage (track, label, transform). Based on a card-sorting exercise conducted with researchers, we conclude that a slightly modified rubric of CREAMS offers a useful starting point that emphasizes the enriched functionality a scholarly repository or similarly complex digital environment requires, as well as the immense challenge of designing conceptually clear interfaces, even for a relatively homogenous community of researchers.

• Date created

  2012

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Experimental Interface Design
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Digital Scholarly Editions

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R31V5BT0K

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International