PERSONAE Clause Samples

PERSONAE. The method of developing personae is a summative way to describe key characteristics of a typical user. The development of personae requires substantial evidence and the three personae presented below as examples of typical stakeholders based on the feedback provided during the three focus groups are initial attempts to capture the most evident characteristics of the representatives of the groups. ▇▇▇▇▇ is a 65-year old woman with strong interest in her family history and also in local history. She is active in a local genealogical society and is also following the national genealogical news channels on the Web. She normally participates in annually events like “the archives day”, when local archives all over the country have special programmes for visitors, and the national conference called “the Genealogical Days”. She has been working with administrative tasks since she left high school and after retirement more and more of her time is spent on family history. In her home she is equipped with a normal personal computer and a quite good Internet connection (50 Mbit downstream and 10 Mbit upstream). The citizen activist, Stina She subscribe on yearly basis on several genealogical services which proved her with both registers of different kind and images of digitised records. Stina is not a regular visitor in archives, but make visits to fill gaps in the digitised material on Internet. ▇▇▇▇▇ has taken part in crowd sourcing projects organised by her genealogical society, mostly because of personal interest but also to help her local society. Of course she put more effort into such a task if the results could be of direct use in her private research.