The Interface Design & Implementation (IDI) team developed a new Web interface to ADL, and a Java client and middleware that (1) represents the functionality and content of ADL to users; (2) was responsive to feedback obtained from users to the beta web interface; (3) incorporates user interface design concepts from ongoing research and development; and (4) advances the practice of interface design for digital libraries, and specifically for geospatial search and retrieval.
IDI began by reviewing documents provided by the User Interface Evaluation team: target user group activities; issue papers for search, retrieval and processing functionality; user scenarios; user requirement statements for search, retrieval, processing, interface and navigation, and content (what the library should contain). IDI also reviewed reports from the preliminary results of user evaluation studies on the prior Beta interface.