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Sustainable Futures for Digital Resources: Aligning Mission, Audiences, and Infrastructure

Explore how museums and cultural institutions can create digital research resources that balance the needs of both scholarly and broader audiences, as well as internal staff and partners, while supporting long-term institutional resilience in this talk at MCN 2025 conference.

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Best Practices for Analyzing Entities When Integrating Multiple Taxonomies

The process of developing a taxonomy often is a process of gathering and curating terms from various sources, such as repositories, archives, translations, or industry standards. Degler describes the process of “reconciliation” in which taxonomists analyze these disparate terms at the 2025 Taxonomy Bootcamp.

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Exploratory Experiences Built by Design

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

In this presentation, we talk about how user experience can facilitate discovery — enabling people to discover the unexpected in digital spaces, the “aha!” moment, or the deeper story behind a familiar subject.

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Mastering Interactive Maps

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

There are many unique considerations in customizing maps for use inside applications for specialized audiences. This presentation is about the key decisions that user experience designers need to make when integrating a map within a specialized product.

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AI Explanations as Two-Way Experiences, Led by Users

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

How do we craft designs that "explain" concepts and respond to users’ intent? Can AI identify, elicit and apply relevant user contexts, to help us understand AI outputs? How do explanations become two-way?

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Menu Mania: What's Wrong With Menus

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

Menus are ubiquitous in websites and applications of all types. They are critical to accessing the information and actions that users need. In this presentation we share best practices for designing menus.

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    Going Global: The Intersection of IA and UX in a Multilingual Environment

    IA Summit 2018 Conference in Chicago, IL -- March 25, 2018

    Kate Blanch, Rachel Sengers, Janette Shew

    In their IA Summit talk, Kate Blanch, Rachel Sengers, and Janette Shew discuss how to structure multilingual content to support its successful presentation and delivery, and how to provide innovative designs that facilitate exploration of that content.

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    Linked Collections and an Enhancement Ecosystem

    Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) 2018 Conference in New York, NY -- February 26, 2018

    Duane Degler, Kate Blanch

    In their ARLIS/NA poster, Duane Degler and Kate Blanch offer key steps in the theory and practice of managing collection data as linked data, a framework that supports ongoing enhancement of digital resources, and ways to discuss your approach toward digital scholarship.

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