Heinz, Sabine, Mandl, Thomas and Womser-Hacker, Christa Implementation and Evaluation of a Virtual Library Shelf for Information Science Content., 2003 . In 5th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL 2003), St.-Petersburg (Russia), 29-31 October 2003. [Conference paper]
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MyShelf is an information system for browsing based on the metaphor of a virtual library shelf. Like a traditional library shelf, it allows the exploration of the neighborhood of a document. Neighborhood represents semantic closeness which usually has many facets. In MyShelf, the ordering system of a shelf can be changed and the collection is reorganized on the fly. As a consequence, different neighbor-hoods of a document can be explored which al-lows the selection of an appropriate cognitive perspective. The user can rely more on the as-sociative nature of browsing in order to solve his vague information needs. An implementa-tion for information science content and its evaluation with user tests is presented.
Item type: | Conference paper |
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Keywords: | browsing, ontology switching |
Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis. B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability. I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DI. Science libraries. |
Depositing user: | Thomas Mandl |
Date deposited: | 29 Aug 2006 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:04 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8044 |
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