work- and learn-flows

Although a focus of this particular piece is "institutional repositories," the idea of work flows should be one of the factors driving the design of a web site. --mp

From Lorcan Dempsey's Networkflows January 28, 2006

One way of characterising recent developments is to look at our locus of engagement with the network. We can see a trend from database, to website to workflow. And this is not really surprising. As more of our working, learning and playing lives moves onto the network we need better workflow support. One can state one of the major challenges facing libraries in these terms. Historically, users have built their workflow around the services the library provides. As we move forward, the reverse will increasingly be the case. On the network, the library needs to build its services around its users' work- and learn-flows (networkflows).