Ketchell D S, Fuller S S, Freedman M M, Lightfoot E M
Health Sciences Library and Information Center, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1992:251-5.
A uniform graphical user interface to informational databases is evolving at the University of Washington through a collaborative development process. The interface, called WILLOW, has grown from model analysis and preliminary design to working prototype. The design replicates a natural flow of search retrieval. Development continues in a spiral of test and linear improvements based on user analysis. WILLOW's internal structure is built on a Unix client-server model communicating over the campus TCP/IP backbone network. Its external structure is an X-Windows/Motif visual presentation emphasizing a simple, consistent, graphical face to disparate information databases. The WILLOW collaborators have grown from an initial group composed of the Health Sciences Library & Information Center and Computing & Communications' Information Systems to the University Libraries, Computing & Communications divisions, Medical Center Information Systems, and departments throughout the health sciences.
华盛顿大学正在通过一个合作开发过程，逐步形成一个统一的信息数据库图形用户界面。这个名为WILLOW的界面，已经从模型分析和初步设计发展到了可运行的原型阶段。该设计复制了搜索检索的自然流程。基于用户分析，开发工作以测试和线性改进的螺旋式方式持续进行。WILLOW的内部结构建立在通过校园TCP/IP主干网络进行通信的Unix客户机-服务器模型之上。其外部结构是一个X-Windows/Motif可视化呈现，强调以简单、一致的图形界面来面对不同的信息数据库。WILLOW的合作团队已从最初由健康科学图书馆与信息中心以及计算与通信部门的信息系统组成的小组，发展到包括大学图书馆、计算与通信部门、医学中心信息系统以及整个健康科学领域的各个部门。
