As a user

I want access to help pages

So that I resolve issues and make the most of the UV

Suggested items include:

• Closing panels to create more screen space to view items
• Search quality e.g. likelihood of OCR errors
• Search extent e.g. searches available text of item, not metadata
• Explaining (or linking out) cataloguing conventions like brackets on bibliographic information for derived information.

As a repository manager

I want to reference a specific manifest within a larger collection using a stable identifier rather than an offset

• This can be accomplished today with a url collection.json?#m=6
  • The offset url could become unstanble
• It would be awesome to provide an alternate format collection.json?m=aaaa-bbbb-123 which would look up the index of the manifest
• If this suggestion seems useful, it might be good to also support lookups for canvas identifiers

So that I can add and remove content from the collection without breaking contextual links to specific item manifests.

In the tab "share" of the UV, you see a box with the url to the current viewer, and below an icon that links to the manifest itself.

But unexperienced users click on that icon, and are surprised to see a popup for download, either because it is Internet Explorer, or the content-type "application/ld+json" is not recognised as json.

Wouldn't it be more clear to put a textbox with the manifest url, that you can copy? Not everyone has the reflex to do right-click-copy ..

we're trying to learn our librarians about IIIF. Things like "get the manifest url, and paste it in another iiif viewer"

As a reader clicking on the 'About' link in the UV

I want a user-friendly page

So that I can learn about the UV project

Currently 'more info' goes to a github page, which is ok but not brilliant.

As a user

I want to only see language options that are available on that site

So that I don't get confused

e.g. BL UV - you can set the language to Welsh but it doesn't change (as the translation files are missing?)

Does it work as expected in target environments? Is the link to the BL version easy to access? Intersection with responsive view?

As an institution

I want downloaded images not to be 'orphaned'

So that scholars can cite them and credit the institution appropriately, while others can find the source collection

Downloaded image file names (from the BL) currently contain part of the ARK but no other identifying information is available re institution or item.

As a viewer of archive footage

I want to be able to choose which audio track (or tracks) I hear while watching a moving image clip

So that I can choose the audio that's most relevant to my needs

As a curator with a large collection of glass negatives

I want the ability to 'flip' images from negative to positive

So that I can view them as intended

e.g. if rights statements says an item can't be printed or embedded, does the viewer respect that?

As a user

I want easily understood icons, logically and compactly grouped

So that I can take full advantage of all the functions available

Can controls be grouped more compactly so a) it's easier for the user to see all the functions available, b) more room is available for displaying item content

Current best example: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/R0000004_00001?beta=true#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-331.382%2C-766.4352%2C7684.764%2C6533.8704

As a website content editor or developer

I want to be able to override some aesthetic settings of the viewer embedded within my website

So that I don't have the overhead of keeping multiple themes updated

I want to view a translation (or multiple translations) of the transcription/commentary text

So that I can understand what is written in the material

As a sound archive with multiple recordings on the same carrier

I want to provide a simple user experience focused on individual recordings, one per page, not the set of recordings that happen to live together in a manifest

So that users can at least begin with a straightforward UX about the single recording, but get access get more context of its neighbouring recordings if they want it.

(Having trouble expressing this cleanly in “As a…” syntax, but anyway)

The UV loads a manifest that contains many distinct recordings, modelled as Ranges. There is a web page for each recording, so that the same manifest provides the content for multiple pages. Each page initialises the UV with a range to start on. One manifest provides the content for many web pages, because each web page is about the Range.

That part is fairly clear; the UV starts playing the Range provided by the initialisation parameter, and provides navigation over that range - the manifest might have hours of recordings, but the navigation offered to the user is just the initialisation range:

The use can pop put the UV to full mode, where they will see the rest of the manifest. This is the UX issue - what extent of time does the scrub bar now represent? In the full view, you have control over the clock for the whole Canvas/manifest, which means the time extent offered as the whole of the scrub bar in minimode is a small part of the scrub bar when popped out.

BL proposal is use of visual distinction (here green colour, but needs to be accessible) to make it clear that the mini scrub bar is the same time extent as the small part of the maxi scrub bar.

Does the UV need to support (via config) the difference between minimode “start at this range and only offer navigation within this range” and minimode “start at this range but allow the user to use next and previous to navigate the range structure (for example, when playing an album). Compare UIs that are track focussed like iTunes and Spotify.

As a

... developer of applications that use the UV to display dynamically generated manifests

I want

... to be able to pass a JSON blob for the manifest to the UV and have the UV render the manifest as if it had loaded it itself

So that

... I can build applications that don't rely on a static hosted manifest

As a researcher

I want 'download' to mean the same thing whether I'm on a single or double page view

So that I get consistent results without having to learn a mental model specific to the UV

Download options should be consistent across single, double page views
User should be able to: download entire item; download selection of pages; download current view (e.g. zoomed in view); download whole image.

As a

Builder of manifests that feature rotated images

I want

To be able to see my manifests in the UV

So that

Source: Jenna Schoen:

... I'm working on making a manifest from scratch, and having trouble rotating my images. I've tried rotating them directly through the URL (which worked on the URL but didn't load on Universal Viewer), with a selector (which didn't change the image on Universal Viewer), and via the CSS route (which didn't load on Universal Viewer). Do you have any suggestions? Thanks a bunch in advance!!

As a reader

I want to search PDFs for specific strings, and copy text into other documents

So that I can use downloaded PDFs for research

As a National Library of Wales Journals user

I can choose to download the article I am viewing as a pdf

So that I can limit my digital copy to the pages where the article I require appears

As a member of the public or researcher viewing content in the UV

I want to be able to embed this content

So that others can see it in the context of my blog/web page

I want to search the transcription text

So that I can find content that is of interest to me

As a National Library of Wales Journals user

I can find out what I can and can't do with the content I want to download

So that I know whether or not I can use this for the purpose intended

I want to see my search results highlighted on the transcription and the image

So that I can easily and quickly find my results

With many thanks to Stu Snydman and Jennifer Vine for sharing.

These are for discussion at UVCON, and in the UX channel on UV Slack, I will leave further elaboration of their content to Stu and Jennifer.

Universal Viewer UX framework draft 2.pdf

UV hybrid objects examples.pdf

As a museum that carries out scientific and conservation work on our items that generate images from different parts of the light spectrum

I want to be able to overlay those images onto the canvas

So that users can choose which parts of the spectrum to see

As a

Repository manager hosting PDF content in my repository

I want

To be able to create manifest files for PDF content that support 2 pages side by side in UV

So that

my patrons can have a book-view experience browsing the content of my PDF's

From Fluent tests, April 2019:
The viewer is not currently keyboard accessible.
Keyboard arrows can only be used as a way of navigating the item when the item has been clicked on. The visually impaired user in particular who defaulted to using the keyboard arrows was confused when this did not work due to the item needing to be clicked on first. Also, the thumbnails or the actual item cannot be selected. As a results, a keyboard-only user cannot navigate to different screenshots and cannot pan around the image with unless they select the image with the mouse.
Consider the keyboard accessibility of the viewer and make it keyboard accessible (e.g. by clearly showing where the focus is and by making the thumbnails and item accessible by tabbing)

As a keyboard user (for accessibility or efficiency reason)

I want to be able to navigate without the mouse

So that I can access content

As a library user printing from the 'print' button or via the browser

I want to print an image from the UV

The issue here is quality - print works, but doesn't behave as users might reasonably expect.

Printing from the browser currently prints the page, rather than the image, so the actual image size is much smaller than a user would expect.
Image controls (zoom, overview box) leave blank regions on the page.

So that I can annotate or refer to it offline

As a visitor to a Learning site

I want to know where to find out more / go next

So that my visit doesn't end with one collection item

In their implementation of IIIF for the Polonsky pre-1200 project, the BnF have grouped Links under one heading, which might be a neat way of grouping the IIIF manifest address, catalogue link and links to Learning pages (e.g. https://demogallica.bnf.fr/pl/ark:/12148/btv1b105395234/f8?lang=en)

As a National Library of Wales Journals user

I can choose to download the complete issue I am viewing as a pdf

So that I can view the whole issue of that Journal without accessing the website.

As a sound archive aimed at the interested public

I want to allow users to switch between a very simple user interface for audio (scrub, play, volume) that focuses on an individual Range (as per #6) and one that shows more metadata, but is NOT the full mode Universal Viewer with full access to the Manifest - it still focuses on the Range

So that we still focus attention on the Range (track, recording) rather than the Manifest that contains many Ranges.

This introduces a new display layout/mode for the UV, which is significant:

(source: BL)

Questions:

what UI toggles between the two, and how does that relate to full screen, and/or toggling to the regular UV mode, which may or may not be F11-style full screen?

As a user

I want easily understood icons, logically and compactly grouped

So that I can take full advantage of all the functions available

Previous usability work found that the settings cog is ignored by most people, the chevrons which indicate open/close panels aren't noticed by users, the meanings of the embed and share icons aren't recognised, the 'More information' panel is missed by some and might benefit from a standard icon ('i'?)

As a

Researcher viewing a digitized PDF document in the Universal Viewer

I want

to search the full text of the document (if available in the pdf)

So that

I can find a paragraph/article of interest.

Context

At Georgetown, we have implemented a PDF document viewer using a javascript based package called FlexPaper. See the "bookview" link at https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1047689 . It will take a minute for the PDF to download. Once it has downloaded, you will see that full text searching is enabled.

Eventually, we would like to replace our FlexPaper viewer with the Universal Viewer. In order to accomplish this, it would be particularly useful to have a within-document search available in a PDF.

I suspect that this solution would require us to convert the document full text into an annotation.

See issue:

UniversalViewer/universalviewer#529

As a developer

I want to disable scroll to zoom on OpenSeaDragon

So that users can more easily scroll past the contents of the UV and on to the rest of the page

Supporting info:

• as is suggested here, by adding a scrollToZoomEnabled parameter to SeadragonCenterPanel

As a reader of a handwritten or foreign language document

I want to view translation or transcription text

So that I can understand the document

Comment from a user: Will there be a plain text window? Like there is in the JISC databases like Historical Texts? These can be useful for people not used to reading early printed letter-press.

As a

Researcher viewing a digitized image of a record

I want

to be able to manipulate the colours of the image I am viewing

So that

it is easier to view handwriting and text

As a

User searching extracted text in a multi-page digital object

I want

To be taken to the first page that a search term exists on

So that

When a term first occurs somewhere within the multi-page object (but not on the current page), the viewing pane won't leave the user stuck on the current page and require them to navigate to the first page that has a search result on it.

As a researcher

I want to download transcribed text used in a UV item

So that I can use it in digital scholarship or refer to the whole text

As a visitor to a 'learning' site

I want to see all the links related to a collection item in one place

• In their implementation of IIIF for the Polonsky pre-1200 project, the BnF have grouped Links under one heading, which might be a neat way of grouping the IIIF manifest address, catalogue link and links to Learning pages (e.g. https://demogallica.bnf.fr/pl/ark:/12148/btv1b105395234/f8?lang=en)
• Helping people understand how partial items on Learning pages relate to full digitised catalogue items is a key usability concern; Links might provide a useful form of signposting

So that I can follow the trail to the next relevant page

I want to compare transcriptions/annotations with the corresponding area on the digital image

So that I can see where I am on the page

I want to view a digital image and see that there is enriched content available

So that I can choose to access it if I want to learn more about the item

As a user browsing through a collection of items

I want to see which item I am currently viewing and which items I could view

So that I can move between items and collections, either in sequence or randomly.

See issue: UniversalViewer/universalviewer#594

As a curator

I want to select two items for side-by-side display

So that I can create pages about comparative works (e.g. two editions of a printed work)

As a library generating content associated with digitised resources through crowdsourcing and machine processes including OCR

we want as much data created by volunteers/machines/staff to end up in strategic / discovery systems as possible

So that people have access to the richness of content we have for our objects

As a researcher

I want downloaded PDFs to have non-generic names, ideally based on titles (or identifiers for items without titles) used in manifests

So that my downloads folder isn't full of 'From The British Library(19).pdf' which are hard to track and easy to overwrite

As a researcher

I want to search for words and phrases that include accented characters and specific punctuation including quotes, hyphens and apostrophes

So that our scholarship isn't Anglocentric?

This may require updates to both the search box and the search service (regardless of other issue re indexing multilingual text).

I want to be able to see the results of any search of the generated text

So that I can find what I’m looking for

I want to select a word in the transcription and see the corresponding word/region highlighted on the digital image (and vice versa)

So that I can compare specific parts of the transcription to the original image