Exploring digital libraries: integrating browsing, searching, and visualization

@inproceedings{citeulike:1433644, abstract = {Exploring services for digital libraries (DLs) include two major paradigms, browsing and searching, as well as other services such as clustering and visualization. In this paper, we formalize and generalize DL exploring services within a DL theory. We develop theorems to indicate that browsing and searching can be converted or mapped to each other under certain conditions. The theorems guide the design and implementation of exploring services for an integrated archaeological DL, ETANA-DL. Its integrated browsing and searching can support users in moving seamlessly between these operations, minimizing context switching, and keeping users focused. It also integrates browsing and searching into a single visual interface for DL exploration. A user study to evaluate ETANA-DL's exploring services helped validate our hypotheses}, author = {Srinivas and Da and Fan, Weiguo and Shen, Rao and Fox, E. A. }, citeulike-article-id = {1433644}, journal = {Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on}, keywords = {browsing, digital\_library, searching}, pages = {1--10}, posted-at = {2007-09-11 14:21:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Exploring digital libraries: integrating browsing, searching, and visualization}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=4119091}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1433644 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1433644 TI - Exploring digital libraries: integrating browsing, searching, and visualization JF - Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on SP - 1 EP - 10 N2 - Exploring services for digital libraries (DLs) include two major paradigms, browsing and searching, as well as other services such as clustering and visualization. In this paper, we formalize and generalize DL exploring services within a DL theory. We develop theorems to indicate that browsing and searching can be converted or mapped to each other under certain conditions. The theorems guide the design and implementation of exploring services for an integrated archaeological DL, ETANA-DL. Its integrated browsing and searching can support users in moving seamlessly between these operations, minimizing context switching, and keeping users focused. It also integrates browsing and searching into a single visual interface for DL exploration. A user study to evaluate ETANA-DL's exploring services helped validate our hypotheses KW - browsing KW - digital_library KW - searching AU - Srinivas AU - Da AU - Fan, Weiguo AU - Shen, Rao AU - Fox, EA PY - 2006/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4119091 ER -