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1. I don't find 'community' particularly useful

   Larry Gorenflo - ljg11@psu.edu - I don't find 'community' particularly useful in this context, in that it already appears as a technical term in the ecology and socioeconomic work that I generally do (and that a lot of users of SEDAC, I suspect, also generally do). That stated, I think the secondary headers work well in that they serve to guide users into the site from other angles. I think in general it is a good part of your beta site. Sorry, but again I don't have any real organizational  recommendations or useful comments. Well, except that I suppose one approach might be at some point (maybe elsewhere) to provide some map that allows users to point and click, at least to get listings of datasets or even sub-pages within CIESIN (though in truth, though I find these geographic interfaces often useful, I think for what you have here it would be overkill as there are several ways to get to the information one generally would want.

   Larry Gorenflo - ljg11@psu.edu - I don't find 'community' particularly useful in this context, in that it already appears as a technical term in the ecology and socioeconomic work that I generally do (and that a lot of users of SEDAC, I suspect, also generally do). That stated, I think the secondary headers work well in that they serve to guide users into the site from other angles. I think in general it is a good part of your beta site. Sorry, but again I don't have any real organizational  recommendations or useful comments. Well, except that I suppose one… more

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2. Compliments from Larry Gorenflo - ljg11@psu.edu

   You guys have done a particularly nice job here … enabling the search by browsing or by theme (agriculture, etc.) … or by year. I searched for some stuff I know already exists and found it quickly … more quickly, I should say, than the old website. I also worked through the themes and found the results very useful. I don’t think I would change anything here; at least, nothing comes to mind in terms of what might be added to make it more useful. As an aside, I particularly liked the additional data that you have up. I have been focusing on more local issues, for the most part, recently (near national parks in Tanzania and Cambodia, for instance), and as a consequence have not been keeping up with your activities for the past year. It seems as if you have been busy, and as I’ll be working on several global pieces soon this was quite useful to see the new datasets.

   You guys have done a particularly nice job here … enabling the search by browsing or by theme (agriculture, etc.) … or by year. I searched for some stuff I know already exists and found it quickly … more quickly, I should say, than the old website. I also worked through the themes and found the results very useful. I don’t think I would change anything here; at least, nothing comes to mind in terms of what might be added to make it more useful. As an aside, I particularly liked the additional data that you have up. I have… more

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3. include some brief blurb - maybe 2 or 3 sentences - describing the overall mission of SEDAC

   Larry Gorenflo - ljg11@psu.edu - I think the homepage does a good job of conveying what SEDAC is about. You might want to include some brief blurb maybe 2 or 3 sentences describing the overall mission of SEDAC and how it fits into CIESIN, or just what the aim of SECAC is. I don't think this is particularly important for many people using the site, as they likely already know and are just signing on for specific purposes (downloading data, looking at maps, etc.), but in terms of what SEDAC is about you could provide a brief synopsis and then allow visitors to look through the remaining links, etc. As an aside, I like the contents of the homepage. I dialed up data almost immediately, and that generally got me to where I needed to be, and I found that it worked much better than before. Text and graphics balance seemed OK, though in truth I did not focus much on that. I don't have any particular recommendations beyond a couple minor adjustments mentioned above (the map interface, under 3, would be a bit involved, but I don't think it is particularly necessary). I don't mess about with much social media, so I cannot really comment on that. Overall, I like the new look of the website and the general feel of the interface. I'm happy you and your crew have undertaken this and I think in general it works quite a bit better; I always knew you had a bunch of datasets I wanted/needed, so I would do the searches until I found them, but it is much less painful to go through those searches now

   Larry Gorenflo - ljg11@psu.edu - I think the homepage does a good job of conveying what SEDAC is about. You might want to include some brief blurb maybe 2 or 3 sentences describing the overall mission of SEDAC and how it fits into CIESIN, or just what the aim of SECAC is. I don't think this is particularly important for many people using the site, as they likely already know and are just signing on for specific purposes (downloading data, looking at maps, etc.), but in terms of what SEDAC is about you could provide a brief synopsis and then… more

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4. Link titles of the data sets in the catalog

   The "more" button is too small and obscure. Most people will want to click on the title for a full profile of the data set.

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   completed  ·  AdminWebmaster (Webmaster, SEDAC) responded

   Titles are linked and the quick links have changed. Will be in alpha soon and production to follow.

   -andrés

5. Links

   The website is looking good and easy to navigate!
   Here are few suggestions

   1)When I open map images I find it difficult to navigate back ,either the image can be opened in a new window or there can be navigation menu on top.
   URL:http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu:8080/maps/dataset/aglands-croplands-2000

   2)In the Featured Uses on home page, link to read more can be given in the title rather than at the end of the news item

   3)When I click a news on the right side menu bar it would be good if I see information only about the news item rather than all the news.

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   Sriram

   The website is looking good and easy to navigate!
   Here are few suggestions

   1)When I open map images I find it difficult to navigate back ,either the image can be opened in a new window or there can be navigation menu on top.
   URL:http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu:8080/maps/dataset/aglands-croplands-2000

   2)In the Featured Uses on home page, link to read more can be given in the title rather than at the end of the news item

   3)When I click a news on the right side menu bar it would be good if I see information only about the news item rather than all the news.

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6. consistent font style in data titles

   The data title text varies between bold and not bold. It would be better to have just one style (preferably bold).

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   completed  ·  Andrés González responded

   Issue is due to minor font size changes in titles, which are done on purpose. It only appears like this on Windows XP without cleartype, Windows Vista and above, as well as OS X & Linux handle font rendering properly, so we will keep it as is since XP users will be phased out.

7. pages with tabs always come up with the first tab, regardless of the previous state
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   completed  ·  AdminWebmaster (Webmaster, SEDAC) responded

   we removed the tabs on these pages and layed out the pages differently..