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Agenda:
  1. Feedback on the data catalog
  2. Feedback on arrangement of content to modify the themes
  3. Work on titles spreadsheet started by Hamilton
Minutes:

In attendace:
  • Vivien Deparday, SPCO
  • Isabelle Lepine, Collectif Quartier
  • Tracey P. Lauriault, Acacia
1. Feedback on the data catalog

General Necessary Priorities:
  • We shopped for data, it was easy, but we did not know what happened to the data once we purchased them.  Later we found the data in our in boxes.  All of that was great, but would be better to also have something that tells the user that the data has been downloaded.
  • The catalog and the entire site needs to be tested in all browsers (IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome).  IE and Firefox are the top priorities.  Isabelle could not shop for data in IE.
Necessary Modifications:
Suggested improvements:
  • Description options:
    • i) when mousing over the catalog content in data sources can a window pop up with a brief description of what those data are?
    • ii) Have a box on the side that describes the data in the data sources.
  • Ensure that selection options reflect content in the portal.  e.g. 1981 is an option but we do not have data for that year.
  • Many of the tables come from the census, is it necessary to only distinguish them from UPP etc.  If I want census then both UPP and special orders should appear.  
Things to determine 
  • If we select more than one item from each box how does the search work? what overrides what? Is it an and / or an or/?
    • Scenario -  is it possible to select lets say Canadian business patterns, and then only the geographies associated with those files get shown?  That would be more dynamic.
    • If we cannot select from all the boxes then we may want to have drop down boxes
  • If we cannot select from all the boxes then we may want to have drop down boxes
  • Should the search boxes be boxes or drop down boxes?
  • Must we have dimensions and topics? Can those not be merged into one?  Also, wherever possible do not include the numbers at the end.  Avoid the duplication of titles - e.g. 1 year ago, 5 years ago, etc. I do not think it is possible/viable to merge the two together. I think either we should use the dynamic filtering mentionned above so that only the dimensions of the topic are shown or we can use the grouping approach to avoid duplication that Isabelle mentioned but it would require quite a bit of work and some consistency.
Wish List:
  • The sorting of data selections at the moment is alpha numeric, could they be sorted by descriptions
  • Can the search excel sheet or the invoice include the search terms used to fetch those data
2. Feedback on arrangement of content to modify the themes

PPT images of content arrangement