Augmenting the exploration of digital libraries with web-based visualizations

2009 Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management Pub Date : 2009-12-18 DOI:10.1109/ICDIM.2009.5356798

Peter Bergström, Darren C. Atkinson

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Abstract

Web-based digital libraries have sped up the process that scholars use to find new, important research papers. Unfortunately, current digital libraries are limited by their inadequate webpage-based paradigm, and it is easy for even the most experienced scholar to get lost. A paper and its immediate references are shown on a webpage, but it is not obvious where that paper belongs in the larger context of a field of research. The goal for our research was to develop and test the effectiveness of a web-based application, PaperCube, that was designed to augment a scholar's interaction with a digital library and explore bibliographic meta data using a defined set of visualizations. These visualizations needed to provide different levels of visibility into a paper's citation network without losing focus of the currently viewed paper. PaperCube was validated through a user study which showed that it was very useful when it comes to augmenting digital library search by reducing the ¿cognitive load¿ put on a scholar and aiding the ¿discoverability¿ of new research material.

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利用基于网络的可视化增强对数字图书馆的探索

基于网络的数字图书馆加快了学者们寻找新的、重要的研究论文的过程。不幸的是，目前的数字图书馆受到其不完善的基于网页的范式的限制，即使是最有经验的学者也很容易迷失方向。一篇论文和它的直接参考文献会显示在网页上，但这篇论文在一个研究领域的大背景下属于什么位置并不明显。我们的研究目标是开发和测试基于网络的应用程序PaperCube的有效性，该应用程序旨在增强学者与数字图书馆的交互，并使用一组定义的可视化来探索书目元数据。这些可视化需要为论文的引用网络提供不同层次的可见性，同时又不会失去当前浏览论文的重点。PaperCube通过一项用户研究得到验证，该研究表明，通过减少学者的“认知负荷”和帮助新研究材料的“发现性”，它在增强数字图书馆搜索方面非常有用。

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