A Fluid Interface for Personal Digital Libraries

Good, Lance; Popat, Ashok C.; Janssen, William C.; Bier, Eric A.

doi:10.1007/11551362_15

Cited by 8 publications

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“…As digital collections are becoming larger, visualization of collections poses an interface design challenge. Good et al [40] developed a visual interface for a personal digital library using treemap visualizations to facilitate navigation and to present collections of documents. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Virtual Spine visual interface [39] is a novel interface that visualizes the spines of collections through a display of the brand images for the collection that provided the metadata to the NSDL.…”

Section: Information Access and Retrievalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metadata-enhanced visual interfaces to digital libraries

Shiri

2008

Journal of Information Science

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Information visualization offers a variety of ways in which digital library collections can be represented on the interface and shown to the user. Metadata, a key component of solid digital libraries, has been utilized to enhance visual user interfaces to digital libraries. This paper reports on a study conducted to investigate and analyze a specific category of digital library visual interface that supports information seeking, exploration and retrieval based on metadata representations, namely metadata-enhanced visual interfaces. This study examined 21 metadata-enhanced digital library visual interfaces from the following perspectives: (a) information access and retrieval features; (b) metadata elements; (c) visualization techniques and metaphors.The results demonstrated that the combined use of visualization techniques and metaphors is becoming increasingly prevalent as a design strategy to support users' information exploration. The results also suggest that visual interfaces enhanced with metadata are becoming more widespread to provide a richer representation of digital collections.

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Section: Information Access and Retrievalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metadata-enhanced visual interfaces to digital libraries

Shiri

2008

Journal of Information Science

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“…In search results visualization literature TreeMap is used and evaluated in a number of studies [41,13,24].…”

Section: Ocument H Ierarchy V Isua Lizationmentioning

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Metadata visualization of scholarly search results

Khazaei

Hoeber

2012

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

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Studies of online search behaviour have found that searchers often face difficulties formulating queries and exploring the search results sets. These shortcomings may be especially problematic in digital libraries since library searchers employ a wide variety of information-seeking methods (with varying degrees of support ), and the corpus to be searched is often more complex than simple textual information. To address these problems, an interactive Web-based library search interface is present ed, which has been designed to support strategic retrieval behaviour of library searchers. T his system takes advantage of the rich metadata associated with academic documents and employs information visualization techniques to provide searchers with additional information-seeking tools. These tools are designed to facil itat e visual and interactive query refinement, search results exploration, and citation navigation. User evaluations illustrate the potential benefits of the design choices in comparison to a list-based digital library search interface. Acknowledgeme ntsFirstly, I would like t o sincerely t hank my supervisor , Dr. Orland Roeb er , for the support and guidance he offered me t hroughout my master 's program . This research would not have been possible without his insight ful advice and patient encouragement.

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“…This is to better compare and review information across multiple sources, and to have a better overall understanding of the domain. In their study, Good et al, identify this to be a major weakness in current DL displays (Good et al, 2005). To address related issues, researchers have conducted studies applying visualization techniques for book searches and presenting various forms of search results for easy comparison (Shen et al, 2006;Silva et al, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While considering the increasing volume of data, the current text-based approach to result presentation is not an ideal solution for the modern digital environment. Particularly in the case of comparing a lengthy list of search results, this approach is ill-suited, as it is inefficient and non-intuitive (Good et al, 2005). Assistance, such as ranked results, can aid in such problems but the user will still be relied on to investigate the top results individually (Veerasamy & Heikes, 1997;Dushay, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%