Interactions et métadonnées riches pour les bibliothèques numérisées

Almeida, Rodrigo Andrade de; Cubaud, Pierre; Dupire, Jérôme; Topol, Alexandre

doi:10.3166/dn.9.2.83-109

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“…Vannevar Bush's Memex reading machine of the 1940s and Xerox's windows and graphical user interface of the 1970s are two examples that achieved notoriety while being representative of the research on document and library visualization carried out in the information visualization field (Bush 1945;JOURNAL OF INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE FALL 2022, VOL 7 ISS 2 -Resonances Card 2008Fang et al 2009). Several related techniques have been adapted to digitization quality control, such as the software-hardware hybrid prototype developed at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), Paris, consisting in a zoomable juxtaposition of page thumbnails projected on a cabinet-sized half-sphere (Almeida et al 2009(Almeida et al , 2006. Nonetheless, much work remains to be done with respect to visual quality control solutions.…”

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Improving the Quality Control and Exploration of Digital Documents Using Visualization and Serendipity

Atanasiu¹

2022

JofIA

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This article contributes to the quality control of digitization workflows, and to the exploitation of historical document collections, by demonstrating the utility of serendipitous exploration (as opposed to targeted searches) through the use of Document Towers, a visual representation of the physical structure of documents as architectural models. The Document Towers are evaluated via a qualitative case study on historical Swiss newspapers, a thought experiment comparing them to alternative solutions, a diagrammatic visual and numeric assessment of exploratory tasks, and several quantitative and empirical usability measurements and psychometric surveys. The experiments confirmed that both serendipitous exploration and the Document Towers visualization are objectively well-suited for the quality control and exploration of digital documents. A significant disparity in subjective usability was observed between librarians and academics, who rated the visualization concept below and above average, respectively. Other findings included the redefinition of quality control as a tool of knowledge and dialogue among stakeholders in information systems; a generic diagrammatic instrument for evaluating the outcomes of explorations; demonstrating how the adoption of novel information technology may benefit from adaptation to individual psychologies and socio-professional contexts; and, unexpectedly, novel historical insights into Swiss map-making, newspaper history, and censorship.

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Improving the Quality Control and Exploration of Digital Documents Using Visualization and Serendipity

Atanasiu¹

2022

JofIA

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“…There is a natural material correspondence between stacks of pages and buildings, and between libraries and cities; moreover, spatial and architectural metaphors are ingrained in software and hardware terminology (e.g., ''information superhighway'', ''homepage'', ''desktop'', ''tunnel'', ''cloud'', and the scientific field of ''Information Architecture'') [6], and have also been used in the past for experimental document representations. Examples include visualizing software structure as an urban landscape [7], extruding the nested structure of webpage objects [8], representing text columns in a threedimensional space [9], rendering digital documents as look-alikes of physical books in a virtual reality library [10], and conceptualizing navigation between Internet domains as a walk through tunnels that connect various rooms [11]. Research into compact document overview are addressed in the literature, e.g., in the form of semantically highlighted thumbnails [12], or a dashboard of topic distribution in documents [13].…”

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Document Towers: A MATLAB software implementing a three-dimensional architectural paradigm for the visual exploration of digital documents and libraries

Atanasiu

Ingold

2021

SoftwareX

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This article introduces the generic Document Towers paradigm, visualization, and software for visualizing the structure of paginated documents, based on the metaphor of documents-as-architecture. The Document Towers visualizations resemble three-dimensional building models and represent the physical boundaries of logical (e.g., titles, images), semantic (e.g., topics, named entities), graphical (e.g., typefaces, colors), and other types of information with spatial extent as a stack of rooms and floors. The software takes as input user-supplied JSON-formatted coordinates and labels of document entities, or extracts them itself from ALTO and InDesign IDML files. The Document Towers paradigm and visualization enable information systems to support information behaviors other than goal-oriented searches. Visualization encourages exploration by generating panoramic overviews and fostering serendipitous insights, while the use of metaphors assists with comprehension of the representations through the application of a familiar cognitive model. Document Towers visualizations also provide access to types of information other than textual content, specifically by means of their physical structure, which corresponds to the material, logical, semantic, and contextual aspects of documents. Visualization renders documents transparent, making the invisible visible and facilitating analysis at a glance and without the need for physical manipulation. Keyword searches and other language-based interactions with documents must be clearly expressed and will return only answers to questions asked; by contrast, visual observation is well suited to fuzzy goals and uncovering unexpected aspects of the data.

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“…Several studies are aimed at transferring the paper qualities and affordances into the digital world, taking advantage of the computer, to appeal screen reading. Innovative technologies are proposed such as 3D digitalisation to capture the paper materiality [1] or perspective presentations to provide a global view of the set of pages and a fast navigation [10]. On the other side, digital libraries are aware that an evolution of the current offer is necessary.…”

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Document image analysis for active reading

Faure

Vincent

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Semantically Aware Document Processing and Indexing

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A huge number of documents that were only available in libraries are now on the web. The web access is a solution to protect the cultural heritage and to facilitate knowledge transmission. Most of these documents are displayed as images of the original paper pages and are indexed by hand. In this paper, we present how and why Document Image Analysis contributes to build the Digital Libraries of the future. Readers expect human-centred interactive reading stations, which imply the production of hyperdocuments to fit the reader's intentions and needs. Image analysis allows extracting and categorizing the meaningful document components and relationships; it also provides readers' adapted visualisation of the original images. Document Image Analysis is an essential prerequisite to enrich hyperdocuments that support content-based readers' activities such as information seeking and navigation. This paper focuses the function of the original image: a reference for the reader and the input data that are processed to automatically detect what makes sense in a document.

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Interactions et métadonnées riches pour les bibliothèques numérisées

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Improving the Quality Control and Exploration of Digital Documents Using Visualization and Serendipity

Improving the Quality Control and Exploration of Digital Documents Using Visualization and Serendipity

Document Towers: A MATLAB software implementing a three-dimensional architectural paradigm for the visual exploration of digital documents and libraries

Document image analysis for active reading

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