Source: http://opendatamanual.org/
This report discusses legal, social and technical aspects of open data. The manual can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.
To get started, you may wish to look at the Introduction. You can navigate through the report using the Table of Contents (see sidebar or below).
We warmly welcome comments on the text and will incorporate feedback as we go forward. We also welcome contributors or suggestions for additional sections and areas to examine.
Source: egovau.blogspot.com/2012/01/11-things-to-consider-when-using.html
Introduction
When websites first starting to become popular it became common for Marketing and Communications teams in organisations to receive requests from various areas saying "we need a website".
An address
To read on
http://greatemancipator.com/2012/01/04/a-digital-agenda/
Extract
Strangely there is also a demand that public sector websites are fully accessible by 2015 and that proposals around this should be released by the EU in the next six months, and that in the six months after there is planned to be a single instrument on the topics of eSignatures, eIdentity and eAuthentication, which may be amusing given the UK’s lack of anything substantial for government along with hardcore resistance to it doing anything.
Have a look on this address
See also http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/132/ereader.asp
Summary. E-Readers, or electronic reading devices, are becoming a household item; however, there exists little research on the usability of these devices. This study investigates the ease-of-use of three e-Readers (iPad, Kindle 2, and Nook 1st Edition) for basic e-Book navigation. Participants (N = 17) were asked to complete a series of book tasks (e.g., opening a book, bookmarking a page, etc.) on the three e-Readers. For each device, participants were asked to rate the task difficulty and the facilitator recorded completion time and number of taps to complete the task. Participants also rated each device in terms of perceived workload and satisfaction. After using all three e-Readers, participants were asked to rank each device on a series of attributes (e.g., screen size, bookmarking, glare, etc.) and overall preference. Results revealed that the iPad was better than the Nook and Kindle on all performance measures, task difficulty, perceived workload, satisfaction, and preference. The only task in which the iPad proved to be more difficult than the Nook and Kindle was the note-making task. Suggestions for improving future e-Readers are discussed.
Usability News is a free web newsletter that is produced by the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University. The SURL team specializes in software/website user interface design, usability testing, and research in human-computer interaction.
See http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/132/iPad.asp
A very good source about usability