Dear all,
Some very useful feedback on the website and wiki from Josina Freriks (Gerard’s daughter). I improved 2 things she mentions, which I hope are uncontroversial - the mailing list page (under ‘community’) and I added a small description to the specificatoin project main page. But she has many other useful comments, mainly about content, rather than formatting. Reactions?
- thomas
Subject:
openEHR website
Date:
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:52:43 +0100
From:
JP Freriks <jpfreriks@gmail.com>
To:
Thomas Beale <thomas.beale@oceaninformatics.com>
References:
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Hello Thomas,
I actually like helping to improve websites (I’m kind of annoying myself). So I couldn’t help it and have written down some more suggestions for improvement from a laymans perspective.
I’m not sure whether it’s you I need to send it to, but I’m sure you know the right person who deals with the website (and maybe it is you). So here are some comments on the openEHR website:
(the black bold words are the subpage headings on the homepage, on the left; or the sub-sub pages)
● Home: More white space between Welcome to openEHR block and News and Events for clearity. Link to health computing platform more to the bottom of welcome block, in the form of read more about the health computing platform….
- It’s not clear why you’d want to use ‘change log in’, ‘Register’ and the PDF buttons (at the top op the screen).
Quick links (at the right side of the Home page).
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Clinicians: you’d expect a special Clinician site with all sorts of links. It doesn’t do that. It does say that ‘Clinicians and their clients are what openEHR is about.’. So you’d expect the clinician-story to take a prominent role on the main pages. Now that’s not the case.
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Maybe it would be an idea to create special portals for a) people with an academic interest; b) software people stuff; and c) a prominent one for clinicians, government people, vendors etc.?
● Community: it would be more clear to make the description text not a part of the subscribe/to post/ list archive-block. Make the description stand out more.
Wiki:
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write the purpose of this page down, so that that’s clear to all. (maybe not everyone is familiar with what a wiki is about.)
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a link back to the openEHR page would be nice.
● Download: here you’d expect a download page for downloading the 4 Ocean Tools. Now it’s not quite clear what this page does. It talks about projects that aren’t introduced, and the download part refers to sources and binaries. Looks like this page is for software people, so shouldn’t it be under Software Projects where software people would look?
I’d put this page definitely more down, at least underneath the Clinical Models Project tab, in order to make a progressive flow from laymen talk into the technical depths.
- Specifications: not clear what is meant here. Talks about ‘current release’ and ‘download’, so that one might think that it’s possible to download the Archetype Editor here.
● Specification Project: needs an Overview (like the one under Clinical Model Project) in order to make clear what is meant by ‘specification’.
The section under How to doesn’t seem to be at its place here, since you’d need the Archetype Editor or the Template Designer, which up to this point aren’t introduced yet.
Maybe put Specification Project under Clinical Models Project.
● Clinical Models Project: this section could do with a restructuring. Now there’s an overlap between what’s on the Project Page and what’s on the Archetype page.
Tools: put up a link to the Ocean download page?
Archetypes should be in there first to explain what they are, than the Tools section which use them. It would be nice to actually show an image of an archetype with some extra explanation saying that this treelike structure enables semantic interoperability. There should also be a Template section (especially since the Template Designer is named under Tools.).
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Archetypes: ‘Index of Archetypes’: it isn’t clear what this says. It seems to say that openEHR archetypes are only available as a table or as a mindmap, while at the bottom of the page you can download them all using TortoiseSVN. (The text beneath ‘This option is temporarily turned off’ tends to be skipped over because the text block seems to end the page optically.) Needs some instruction on why you would want to either look at the table, the mindmap or download them all.
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Link to the Ocean Archetype Editor: opens to the wiki.oceaninformatics page. Ocean could do with a nice introduction (sales!), as does the Ocean Archetype Editor. Why not open to the Ocean Informatics home page?
Here a full instruction would be nice, including how to download the archetypes using TortoiseSVN, system requirements etc.. Plus a button to go back to the openEHR page. -
Same comments for the ( Why not: Ocean?) Archetype Workbench. This links opens to ADL Workbench. = Archetype Workbench!!!
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Archetype Editorial Group: good section. Maybe an elaboration on Governance?
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Clinical Models Wiki: opens to Health Information Models Home, which is confusing. ‘Clinical Models’ sound better, since Health Information Models is, I believe, a new, unintroduced term. Letters might be too small, and the text too broad across the page. On the page itself it doesn’t say it’s a Wiki, or that it belongs to the same Wiki as before. The layout is different. Is it a Wiki, or a page that contains info? Could do with a clear(er) button to the rest of the wiki, and one to return to the openEHR page, and why not to the Ocean page.
Here there’s talk about templates. That’s new. Link to Template Designer (Sales!).
● Software Projects: that’s definitely not for a layman, so I skip that.
● Resources: All the items that sit under Resources I would make them sit on their own. Especially Getting started, Useful Resources, Contact, Presentations, Conferences, Publications, Who is using it, Tutorials, FAQs.
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openEHR Primer: Primer isn’t a word that is easily understandable for non-native english speakers. It talks about the openEHR model. This is similar to what’s under ‘Health computing platform’. I’d put the two together under Background, or something, and put that under Home.
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Tutorials: I’d place them on the Ocean site, because it would be you guys who would be making and giving them, right?
● Standards: could do with a more introductory text about the fact that openEHR has developed standards which have become ISO standards, and that they comply with others as well.
● The Foundation: This should be at Home, since it introduces the openEHR foundation.
Thomas Beale schreef: