Cultural heritage archives engage in monitoring of environmental condition data, typically by employing “datalogger” devices and rudimentary data dashboard interfaces, to ensure collection preservation and avoid damaging environmental conditions, such as high temperature or humidity. Data dashboard interfaces are a popular means of efficiently monitoring complex, high-volume, and real-time data. While open-source software, in which the code may be modified as needed by individuals and/or communities, is widely used in the archives domain for collection management, the commercial environmental monitoring systems tend to be closed source and inflexible in use. The authors’ prior user-centered research with archivist practitioners has indicated many issues with the current commercial environmental monitoring systems and noted the potential for more flexible, open, and modern technology solutions. This research study explores the design and evaluation, through usability testing and heuristic evaluation, of an open-source data dashboard interface for archivists, with an emphasis on understanding the ability of current open-source tools in this realm to support archivists’ interface needs. Though the data dashboard interface was generally efficient and easy to use for archivists, there were several problems identified that require further development and evaluation, some of which may be more technically challenging than reasonable to expect from archivists. Several suggestions for the future directions this work may take are presented, which includes integration into existing popular open-sources systems currently developed by archivists.

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存档人员使用的开源环境监测数据仪表板的可用性评估

文化遗产档案馆通常通过使用“数据记录器”设备和基本数据仪表板界面来监视环境状况数据，以确保保存收藏并避免破坏高温或高湿度等环境条件。数据仪表板界面是一种有效监视复杂，大容量和实时数据的流行方法。尽管可以在个人和/或社区中根据需要修改代码的开源软件在档案馆领域广泛用于馆藏管理，但是商业环境监控系统往往是开源的，使用起来不灵活。作者先前与档案工作者的以用户为中心的研究表明，当前的商业环境监控系统存在许多问题，并指出了更灵活，开放和现代技术解决方案的潜力。这项研究旨在通过可用性测试和启发式评估，为档案管理员探索和评估开源数据仪表板界面的设计和评估，重点是了解该领域当前开源工具支持档案管理员界面需求的能力。尽管数据仪表板界面通常对于档案管理员来说是高效且易于使用的，但是发现了一些需要进一步开发和评估的问题，其中一些问题在技术上可能比档案管理员所期望的更具挑战性。