News:DL Consulting marks 20 years in the digital collections business News:Increased usability for Ulukau with refreshed visual design framework
Hello friend of Veridian,
We’re turning the spotlight on DL Consulting this month (the company behind Veridian) as
we celebrate our twentieth year in business. Moreover, one of the oldest and most diverse family of collections the Veridian team works with, Ulukau (the Hawaiian Electronic Library), has just launched a striking new visual design framework. We also introduce a new Veridian statistics section for your interest.
DL Consulting marks 20 years in the digital collections business
From our beginnings in 2002, intent on meeting the real market need for a piece of presentation software to suit digital newspaper collections, DL Consulting has grown to where it is today: a team of nine, working on a wide variety of digital collections with institutions from around the world.
For Director Stefan, the company’s growth over the last two decades has happened fairly organically, with the name Veridian adopted in 2009 as a nod to the Greenstone product from which our digital library software originally sprouted.
“As we’ve matured, we’ve found we like being a small, capable company and have shied away from growth for the sake of it. It’s allowed us to become the best in our little niche, building really strong working relationships with our clients, where we work closely to maintain and grow their collections.”
Thanks goes to all of our clients for putting your trust in the DL Consulting/Veridian team over the past two decades. Here’s to the next milestone!
Increased usability for Ulukau with refreshed visual design framework
The launch of Ulukau’s eye-catching new visual design framework currently spans three digital collections: a new homepage collection, an updated books collection and an updated dictionary collection.
The main goal of this project was to enhance Ulukau’s accessibility and usability by creating a visual design that instantly informs the user of the breadth of content available; there are more than 20 individual digital collections within Ulukau! Plus, with the dictionaries collection recording a new search submitted every ~4 seconds, and a word definition viewed every ~7 seconds, it is well-used by both the Hawaiian and wider global community.
In approaching the new visual design framework, we aimed to achieve a modern and timeless look
(as much as is possible with visual web-based design) that did justice to the variety of rich content available via Ulukau's multilingual web interface.
