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Birger Hjørland - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Hjørland’s domain analysis theory
Hjørland’s “Domain Analysis” is an attempt at a comprehensive theory that can be applied to Information Science. Its main premise is a set of analytical tools that can be applied in subsets or as a whole to in order to study the effects of different social, epistemological, and…
Chilibot User Manual
Chilibot: mining PubMed for relationships
Chilibot is a specialized search software for the PubMed literature database. It is designed for rapidly identifying relationships between genes, proteins, or any keywords that the user might be interested. In contrast to the PubMed interface where results are organized based…
Complete Beginner's Guide To Information Architecture - Ux Booth | Ux Booth
Information architects versus graphic designers
Information architects work in a niche very close to that of the graphic designer, web designer, user-experience designer, front-end developer, and usability expert (I’ve written an article about considering all of the above as careers). Indeed, all of these occupations share a…
What an information architect does
An information architect will generally do the following activities as part of a project team: . Research the audience and the Business IAs take on a myriad of responsibilities for the project. To learn about the project’s audiences, IAs should have access to the results of, or…
Cool Uris For The Semantic Web
RDF describes documents and real-world things
The Resource Description Framework RDF allows users to describe both Web documents and concepts from the real world—people, organisations, topics, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishing such descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web.
Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Open access aggregation systems vs academic search engines
The majority of repository aggregation systems focus on the essential problem of aggregating resources for the purposes of providing cross-‐repository metadata search. While search is an essential component of an OA infrastructure, connecting and tying OA repositories together…
Open access will facilitate text mining and semantic enrichment
The huge amount of content openly available online offers a lot of opportunities for semantic enrichment realised through text mining, crowdsourcing, etc. Exploiting this content might completely redefine the way research is carried out. We may be standing at the brink of a…
Digital Transformation At Wellcome Collection – Stacks
Understanding of our audiences
We embrace decisions based on an understanding of our audiences Understanding our users is at the heart of everything we do. We spend time understanding what they do, what they want to do, what they can’t do, and we test our ideas with them. We consider those who use Wellcome…
Dynamic Semantic Publishing
Separating meaning from content
Most content management systems (CMS) in use today separate content from the presentation of web pages to make content more manageable and publishing more flexible. They do this with varying degrees of success depending on whether the CMS uses a page model or more of an object…
Facetlens : Exposing Trends And Relationships To Support Sensemaking Within Faceted Datasets
Pivoting in faceted search systems
Since filtering is the core and sometimes only interaction technique in traditional faceted browsers, users often find themselves unable to proceed with potentially useful exploration once they have exhausted all filters. When this occurs, they are left with a set of items…
Flavors Of Prototypes
High-fidelity user prototypes
A high-fidelity user prototype is still a "smoke and mirrors" style simulation, however, now it looks very real. In fact, with many good high-fidelity user prototypes you need to look close to see that it’s not real. The data you see is very realistic, but it not real – mostly…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Object-driven and event-driven exploration
We argue that collection access through events can remedy these bottlenecks as events provide the context that can link a variety of objects together, providing a more comprehensive overview than facets. To facilitate cross-collection access, we aim to develop an event…
Limitation of faceted search systems
Although museum collections and their accompanying information are becoming available in digital forms, search is often limited to keyword search and browsing through predefined facets[1]. These access methods are not optimal; in keyword search, for example, it is not clear how…
How We’ve Been Improving Site Search On Gov.uk | Government Digital Service
Improving site search on GOV.UK
Based on our user testing, we’ve recently introduced some improvements to search results: changing the approach to tabbed search results (one of the biggest complaints with the previous version) to combine results more appropriately, helping people - - find what they’re looking…
Hypotheses, Evidence And Relationships: The Hyper Approach For Representing Scientific Knowledge Claims
Elements for a system that can deal with scientific discourse knowledge
A. Hypothesis Creation/Identification tools – to manually or automatically create and/or extract hypotheses and relationships B. Argumentation Representation tools – to allow user interaction with the knowledge presented, and discussions between the authors/users C. Discourse…
Ibm - What Is Data Quality? - Overview
Four qualities of high-quality data
Data quality is an essential characteristic that determines the reliability of data for making decisions. High-quality data is: Complete: All relevant data —such as accounts, addresses and relationships for a given customer—is linked. Accurate: Common data problems like…
Kmworld 2009 Conference Program
Site, page and metadata architecture
The objective of information architecture (IA) is to design how information is created, structured and labeled to ensure a user experience that facilitates users in achieving their goals by finding information or completing a task in the most efficient manner. It describes how…
Linked Data Is Merely More Data
Lack of conceptual description in the linked data cloud
...the user has to be familiar with multiple datasets, and has to express the precise relationships between concepts in the RDF triple pattern, which even in trivial scenarios implies browsing at least two to three datasets. In our previous work (Jain et al. 2009) we made…
From a web of documents to a web of data
The interlinking of these diverse datasets promises a “Web of Data” that will enable users to easily navigate be- tween these datasets in a manner analogous to how users currently navigate from one webpage to another in the “Web of Documents.” Moreover, the LoD Cloud can…
Modeling Entity Relationships
Why would i need entity relationships?
Imagine you are building a snazzy new web application that includes an address book where users can store their contacts. For each contact the user stores, you want to capture the contacts name, birthday (which they mustn't forget!) their address, telephone number and company…
Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Open access vs publication access
So we made it: the greatest bastions of traditional scientific publishing are clearly signaling support for open access. Can we pop the champagne already? This announcement obviously has positive aspects: for example, lives can be saved in poor countries where doctors may have…
Notes On User Centered Design Process (ucd)
User centered design (ucd)
User-centered design process (UCD) is also called human-centred design process. Human centred design processes for interactive systems, ISO 13407 (1999), states: "Human-centred design is an approach to interactive system development that focuses specifically on making systems…
Online Collaboration: Scientists And The Social Network : Nature News & Comment
Academic social networks
More than 4.5 million researchers have signed up for ResearchGate, and another 10,000 arrive every day, says Madisch. That is a pittance compared with Facebook’s 1.3 billion active users, but astonishing for a network that only researchers can join. And Madisch has grand goals…
Ontology Views For Collaborative Ontology Development
Personal views of a shared ontology
...we propose making a web- accessible system (a Grid portal) that maintains a single centrally-held XML document containing the ontology for which all users in a specified group will have access and editing rights. The system will provide each user with their own view of the…
Panton Principles
Science data should be open
Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge. For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made open. By open data in…
Prism | About Prism
Prism and aesthetic provocations
..the end goal of Prism is to produce aesthetic provocations, that is, visualizations which provoke further discussion. But because it is a digital project, Prism can integrate many individual interpretations and create a wide range of visualizations while maintaining data…
Productivity And Screen Size
Operations vs. tasks
Apple's study focused at the wrong level of work. Pasting spreadsheet cells is not a user task, it's an operation at a low interaction level. More meaningful productivity has to be measured at a higher level, where users string together a sequence of operations to achieve their…
Rdf Primer
Applications needn't understand RDF to use it
RDF provides a way to make statements that applications can more easily process. An application cannot actually "understand" such statements, as noted already, any more than a database system "understands" terms like "employee" or "salary" in processing a query like SELECT NAME…
Search: Visible And Simple
Scoped search
Scoped search lets users limit the search to results from specific areas of the site (the search scope). In general, this is dangerous . Users often overlook the scope, or they think they are in a different site area than the one they are actually searching. However, as…
Semiotic Engineering - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Semiotic engineering
Semiotic Engineering views HCI as computer-mediated communication between designers and users at interaction time. The system speaks for its designers in various types of conversations specified at design time. These conversations communicate the designers' understanding of who…
The Cidoc Conceptual Reference Module: An Ontological Approach To Semantic Interoperability Of Metadata
Necessity of data structure diversity
Let us regard here data structures for long-term storing of data, as database schemata, but also tagging schemes like SGML/XML DTD, RDF Schema, and data structures designed as fill-in forms guiding users to a complete and consistent documentation [...] These structures are…
The Difference Between Information Architecture And Ux Design - Ux Booth | Ux Booth
Information architecture, an old term
Information Architecture is a relatively old term. Old in the sense of the web and old in the sense of our progression through technology. It focuses on the organization and structure of content in a manner in which a user can navigate through it. Digitally speaking, it can…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
First ask what users will do with your graphic
It is tempting to propose rock-solid rules—if you want to show change through time, use a time-series chart; if you need to compare, use a bar chart; or to display correlation, use a scatter-plot— because some of these rules make good common sense. [...] But reality is complex…
The Library Catalogue In The New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts | Ariadne
We cannot expect the user to come to the library any more
In a pre-network world, where information resources were relatively scarce and attention relatively abundant, users built their workflow around the library. In a networked world, where information resources are relatively abundant, and attention is relatively scarce, we cannot…
The Need For Research Maps To Navigate Published Work And Inform Experiment Planning
Strategies for nanopublications: structured note taking
The second strategy for building research maps piggybacks on activities that are part of the research community’s typical workflow, such as note taking. From the time that they are students to the time that they are principal investigators, researchers take notes on the papers…
The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge
Databases are tomorrow's encyclopaedia
Databases are tomorrow’s encyclopaedia. They exceed the capacities of any user. They represent “nature” for the postmodern humanity.
The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards
Three psychological needs behind dashboard design
Any product that has an information dashboard as one of its key offerings should keep the psychological needs of its end users in mind. Users like being in control, they have a limited short-term memory, and they love things that are simple. These three factors should form the…
The Truth About Triplestores: The Top 8 Things You Need To Know When Considering A Triplestore - See More At: Http://ontotext.com/semantic-resources/#white-paper
Four use cases for triplestores
• Search and Discovery Search and discovery covers a broad set of applications but generally refers to any use case where organizations want to improve the content delivered through search. The ability to do this with semantic search improves the results. eg... ...imagine a…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Naming periods like biological species
[...] we identify a period concept with the term plus a reference to the first known publication that actually defined it, just as it is good practice in biology (Berendsohn 1995). We propose to create unique preferred terms as in biology (e.g.: Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus…
Top 10 Information Architecture (ia) Mistakes
Extreme polyhierarchy damages user experience
Compared to the physical world, one of the online world's benefits is that items can live in multiple locations. Because websites can classify products and other content along multiple dimensions, they help users navigate locally to related items and provide faceted winnowing…
Top 10 Information Architecture (ia) Mistakes (jakob Nielsen On May 11, 2009)
Structure and navigation: the invisible vs visible section of a website
Structure and navigation must support each other and integrate with search and across sub-sites. Complexity, inconsistency, hidden options, and clumsy UI mechanics prevent users from finding what they need. Bad information architecture causes the majority of outright user…
Ubiseditor 3.0: Collaborative Ontology Development On The Web
Transaction managemen
Transaction management One important task is the implementation of a transaction management to avoid problems when multiple users edit the ontologies and commit their changes simul- taneously. However, since our system stores the different ontologies in a database back end, the…
Ontology segmentation
Ontology segmentation or the creation of ontology views is an important issue. Since many ontologies constantly grow in size and are therefore more and more difficult to understand, maintain and edit, ontology segmentation shall help to extract only those parts of a large…
Usability 101: Introduction To Usability
Usability - the top 5 quality components
Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word "usability" also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process. Usability is defined by 5 quality components: Learnability: How easy is it for users to…
Webprotégé : A Collaborative Ontology Editor And Knowledge Acquisition Tool For The Web
WebProtégé's collaboration features
WebProtégé provides extensive collaboration support, including change tracking, contextualized threaded discussions, watches and notifications, an extensible access policy mechanism, and generation of statistics of the ontology-development process [...] All authoring operations…
What Is A Digital Library Anymore, Anyway ?
A graph information model for a digital library
This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally moves "beyond search and access", without ignoring those basic functions, and facilitates the creation of collaborative and contextual knowledge environments. This model is an information network…
What Is Big Data? An Introduction To The Big Data Landscape.
Hadoop as an analytical adjunct to databases
This process is by nature a batch operation, suited for analytical or non-interactive computing tasks. Because of this, Hadoop is not itself a database or data warehouse solution, but can act as an analytical adjunct to one.One of the most well-known Hadoop users is Facebook…