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A user‐centered interface for information exploration in a heterogeneous digital library

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  • Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado

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The advent of the heterogeneous digital library provides the opportunity and establishes the need for the design of new user interfaces. As a single portal to a wide array of information sources, the heterogeneous digital library requires that a variety of cataloging schemas, subject domains, document genres, and institutional biases be accommodated. SenseMaker is a user‐centered interface for information exploration in a heterogeneous digital library. It unifies citations and articles from heterogeneous sources by presenting them in a common schema with affordances for quick comparisons of properties. At the same time, SenseMaker users can recover a degree of context by iteratively organizing citations and articles into higher‐level bundles based on either metadata or content. Furthermore, SenseMaker enables users to move fluidly from browsing to searching by introducing structure‐based searching and structure‐based filtering. This paper outlines the SenseMaker interface design and details some of our experimental findings surrounding its use.

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  • Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado, 2000. "A user‐centered interface for information exploration in a heterogeneous digital library," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 51(3), pages 297-310.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:51:y:2000:i:3:p:297-310
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:33.0.CO;2-N
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