Visibility, Security, Usability and Reuse – User- oriented CRIS development using the example of “Portfolio/Showroom”

Abstract

The archiving of publications and (research) data from art and science poses major challenges for universities and non-university research institutes. It turns out that artists and scientists hardly use the infrastructures newly created by the universities (repositories, document servers, current research information systems) and rather rely on decentralized, mostly commercial platforms on the Internet. This paper introduces the two web applications “Portfolio” and “Showroom”, whose user-oriented development aims to provide low-threshold access to CRIS solutions. The functionalities of the two digital tools and the fundamentals of their development are presented as well as the just completed Graphical User Interface testing, its method and results. Finally, the article presents the environment in which the development (including interfaces to existing repository solutions) takes place.