Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries

Buchanan, George; Blandford, Ann; Jones, Matt; Thimbleby, Harold

doi:10.1007/3-540-36222-3_2

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“…VKB users requested better navigation (3 of the 8), links to part of a document (2), methods to express relationships among objects (1), and the ability to include an object in multiple collections (1). The control group requested more annotation features (3), more flexibility in organizing links (2), a way to rank the links (1), an automated way to format the document (1), a way to keep track of the links already annotated (1), the ability to provide different graphical ways to present results (1), a more efficient way to import information from the web pages into the document (1), and the ability to express relationships (1).…”

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Supporting personal collections across digital libraries in spatial hypertext

Shipman

Hsieh

Moore

et al. 2004

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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Creating, maintaining, or using a digital library requires the manipulation of digital documents. Information workspaces provide a visual representation allowing users to collect, organize, annotate, and author information. The Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB) helps users access, collect, annotate, and combine materials from digital libraries and other sources into a personal information workspace. VKB has been enhanced to include direct search interfaces for NSDL and Google. Users create a visualization of search results while selecting and organizing materials for their current activity. Additionally, metadata applicators have been added to VKB. This interface allows the rapid addition of metadata to documents and aids the user in the extraction of existing metadata for application to other documents. A study was performed to compare the selection and organization of documents in VKB to the commonly used tools of a Web browser and a word processor. This study shows the value of visual workspaces for such effort but points to the need for subdocument level objects, ephemeral visualizations, and support for moving from visual representations to metadata.

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“…Search results are presented in a new collection as is also true with the integrated search in VIKI [15] and Garnet [1]. Each result is represented by an information object along with any metadata that can be extracted from the search results.…”

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Supporting personal collections across digital libraries in spatial hypertext

Shipman

Hsieh

Moore

et al. 2004

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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“…In the next section, we describe a user study that we undertook to update our picture of the information seeking strategies of humanities scholars, and to reveal the parts where the misfit between technology and user skill is greatest. In [3], we used information retrieval evaluation techniques to identify patterns in the textual properties of documents gathered by users in the course of their information seeking. In this paper, we again use information retrieval measures to scrutinise the information seeking of users -in this case, analysing the types of terms that they use to search for documents.…”

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Information Seeking by Humanities Scholars

Buchanan

Cunningham

Blandford

et al. 2005

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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This paper investigates the information seeking of humanities academics and scholars using digital libraries. It furthers existing work by updating our knowledge of the information seeking techniques used by humanities scholars, where the current work predates the wide availability of the Internet. We also report some of the patterns observed in query and term usage by humanities scholars, and relate this to the patterns they report in their own information seeking and the problems that they encounter. This insight is used to reveal the current gap between the skills of information seekers and the technologies that they use. Searches for 'discipline terms' prove to be particularly problematic.

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“…During the early design stages, a number of methods for structuring the collection space were considered, including spatial hypertext [e.g. Marshall, Shipman & Coombs, 1994;Shipman et al, 2004;Buchanan et al, 2002]. In a spatial hypertext, information elements are added and freely arranged within a 2D workspace.…”

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Uncertainty-tolerant design: Evaluating task performance and drag-and-link information gathering for a news-writing task

Attfield

Blandford

Dowell

et al. 2008

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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Part of the challenge of designing systems to support knowledge work is to do so in a way which is sympathetic to users' uncertainty. NewsHarvester is a test-bed system designed to support news research and writing in a way that accommodates uncertainty in relation to information gathering. It does this using 'drag-and-link'; a simple feature by which text extracts copied from source locations are appended with hyperlinks to force the re-display of the source. We describe the rationale for using drag-and-link within NewHarvester based on a previous ethnographic study of journalists, describe its implementation within NewsHarvester, and report a userevaluation which compared drag-and-link with printing and standard drag-and-drop as information gathering mechanisms.We found that users wanted to relocate information they had not previously identified as useful in order to include it in their report, to better understand the context of information already extracted, and as part of a more serendipitous search for information to add to a near-complete report. Users also considered drag-and-link an easier method for gathering information than printing, and considered that drag-andlink made it easier to relocate information. They also considered that drag-and-link promoted more flexible and dynamic working and increasing user enjoyment. An assessment of the quality of their work showed a trend that favoured drag-and-link over the other two methods, although this was not statistically significant. We conclude that drag-and-link improves user-experience during research and writing tasks in the face of information gathering uncertainty.

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Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries

Cited by 8 publications

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Supporting personal collections across digital libraries in spatial hypertext

Supporting personal collections across digital libraries in spatial hypertext

Information Seeking by Humanities Scholars

Uncertainty-tolerant design: Evaluating task performance and drag-and-link information gathering for a news-writing task

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