Metadata visualization of scholarly search results

Khazaei, Taraneh (2012) Metadata visualization of scholarly search results. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Abstract

Studies of online search behaviour have found that searchers often face difficulties formulating queries and exploring the search results sets. These shortcomings may be especially problematic in digital libraries since library searchers employ a wide variety of information-seeking methods (with varying degrees of support), and the corpus to be searched is often more complex than simple textual information. To address these problems, an interactive Web-based library search interface is presented, which has been designed to support strategic retrieval behaviour of library searchers. This system takes advantage of the rich metadata associated with academic documents and employs information visualization techniques to provide searchers with additional information-seeking tools. These tools are designed to facilitate visual and interactive query refinement, search results exploration, and citation navigation. User evaluations illustrate the potential benefits of the design choices in comparison to a list-based digital library search interface.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
URI: http://research.library.mun.ca/id/eprint/10806
Item ID: 10806
Additional Information: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-146).
Department(s): Science, Faculty of > Computer Science
Date: 2012
Date Type: Submission
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Information visualization; Web-based user interfaces--Design and construction; Querying (Computer science); Searching behavior--Statistical methods.

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