Manakin

Phillips, Scott; Green, Cody; Maslov, Alexey; Mikeal, Adam; Leggett, John J.

doi:10.1045/november2007-phillips

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“…To facilitate browsing our ETD collection, we used a process that could easily be extended to promote awareness and facilitate use of other digital objects so that this might be useful to other projects. DSpace is visually bland, yet "these types of visualization techniques improve the user's ability to understand the content in the repository, while also aiding in serendipitous discovery -traditionally one of the weakest features of a digital repository" (Phillips et al 2007). Our visualization allows users to interact with it and narrow or broaden their search in a visual manner that is navigated by clicking on each wedge of the "donut."…”

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Making Visualization Work for Institutional Repositories: Information Visualization as a means to browse electronic theses and dissertations

Sterman

Borda

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION An attractive repository with clear, well-structured, and accessible content can be a powerful recruitment and publicity tool for administrators, graduate admissions officers, and others trying to bolster support for repositories. Digitizing ETDs is a lengthy process that provides digital access to valuable materials. We demonstrate the benefits of visualizing repository content to increase visibility of these newly digitalized resources. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT The goal of the project was to create an interactive visualization to make our newly digitized theses and dissertations more discoverable. Although this content is described in rich metadata and searchable, we wanted to ensure that it was easy to browse the collection to encourage discovery and use of these historical papers. By employing an interactive visualization of these resources, we provide users an alternative to navigating menus and browsing text. The visualization allows users to see ETDs by college, department, and graduation date, at a glance. The process began with data cleanup involving extracting and normalizing repository metadata, then the data was processed and the Data-Driven Documents (D3) JavaScript library was used to generate the visualization. NEXT STEPS Visualizations have vast potential for creating engaging user interfaces for digital library content. We will explore how people are using the visualization as we move forward with this process to visualize multiple collections.

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Making Visualization Work for Institutional Repositories: Information Visualization as a means to browse electronic theses and dissertations

Sterman

Borda

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…The web pages are structured based on Digital Repository Interface (DRI) schema. As illustrated in figure 1 (Phillips et al, 2007), the aspect chain generates DRI documents, and theme stylizes the DRI documents and produces XHTML web pages for display. During this process, the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) within the themes transforms the DRI pages to XHTML pages, and the content is also localized for the user who requests a page in a particular language.…”

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Building New Interfaces for Shocker Open Access Repository

Deng¹

2011

Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Sec

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Wichita State University Libraries recently upgraded its DSpace based institutional repository, Shocker Open Access Repository (SOAR), to the new version 1.6.2 with an XML-based interface "Manakin". Manakin gives the possibility of creating different interfaces called "themes". Themes provide branding for various communities and new visual effects for images and other collections. This article will address the customization of Manakin and the implementation of new features from an institution's experience. It will cover the process to prepare and create the local theme, test the interfaces for communities and collections and in different browsers. The experiences and techniques shared can be applied by other institutions that are interested in implementing Manakin. This article will also give some reflections on working with a team for an open-source system from the perspective of a Metadata Catalog Librarian in a medium sized library. Manakin gives the possibility of creating different interfaces called "themes". Themes provide branding for various communities and new visual effects for images and other collections. This article will address the customization of Manakin and the implementation of new features from an institution's experience. It will cover the process to prepare and create the local theme, test the interfaces for communities and collections and in different browsers. The experiences and techniques shared can be applied by other institutions that are interested in implementing Manakin. This article will also give some reflections on working with a team for an open-source system from the perspective of a Metadata Catalog Librarian in a medium sized library.

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The Green and Gold Road: Journal Management and Publishing Workflow Extensions for the DSpace Repository Platform

Geyrecker

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The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto

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Manakin

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Making Visualization Work for Institutional Repositories: Information Visualization as a means to browse electronic theses and dissertations

Making Visualization Work for Institutional Repositories: Information Visualization as a means to browse electronic theses and dissertations

Building New Interfaces for Shocker Open Access Repository

The Green and Gold Road: Journal Management and Publishing Workflow Extensions for the DSpace Repository Platform

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