User Centered Planning, Design, Development, and Assessment

Planning

• Initial Planning Report, including Use Cases
• Institutional Survey Report and User Studies

• DLF Scholars Panel--predecessor to Aquifer

Design

• Persona methodology based on the Personas/User profiles method outlined in the California Digital Library Assessment Program Toolkit

• Common Business Functions developed as an instance of DLF's Service Framework

Development

• Agile development
• User stories
• Service Oriented Levels of Metadata Adoption

Assessment