WebX - The Web Experience Team

In collaboration with the Libraries’ Digital Strategies and Technology (DST), Research, Collections and Scholarly Communication (RCSC), and Technical Services (TS) leadership, the Web Experience Team (WebX) oversees and manages the Libraries’ web and discovery interfaces and develops strategies for incorporating and evaluating changes to them. The work of WebX is focused on both vision and implementation.

WebX will undertakes its work through a tiered approach that is comprised of leadership teams and four functional teams.

Leadership Teams:

• WebX Quarterly
• WebX Team Leads

Functional Teams:

• Catalog - Cory Lown, Team Lead
  • Focus: Identifies ways to improve resource discovery and metadata display in the Books & Media Catalog interface through data remediation, new practices, software development, and changes to ingest rules.
• Content Strategy (CST) - Aaron Welborn, Team Lead
  • Focus: Guides the process for creating, maintaining, and governing content on the Libraries’ main website (Drupal).
• Resource Discovery Systems & Strategies (RDSS) - Jacquie Samples and Maggie Dickson, Team Co-Leads
  • Oversees and coordinates Duke University Libraries’ resource discovery-systems landscape.
• UX/UI (User Experience / User Interfaces) - Thomas Crichlow, Team Lead
  • Focus: Oversees and coordinates the user experience that patrons encounter while using Duke University Libraries' patron-facing web and discovery interfaces; carries out the Vision and Values established for Duke University Libraries' web presence.

Affiliated Team

• Digital Preservation and Publishing Program (DP3) - Works in collaboration with WebX teams as needed
  • Focus: Addresses the changing digital scholarly preservation and publishing needs of our community.

More Information:

• Quarterly Updates - News about what WebX is working on
• Project Requests - How to get something in the queue
• Networked Discovery Systems Document - Inventory of systems
• WebX Charges - More detailed descriptions of our assigned areas of focus
• Point of Contact - Thomas Crichlow