TY - GEN
T1 - Significance of visual interfaces in institutional and user-generated databases with category structures
AU - Salah, Almila Akdag
AU - Scharnhorst, Andrea
AU - Bosch, Olav Ten
AU - Doorn, Peter
AU - Manovich, Lev
AU - Salah, Albert Ali
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper we visually explore the data structure of two different visual platforms: the database behind the social environment of a social networking site, and the intricate infrastructure of a research institute for preservation of deposited datasets. We argue that visual analytics of metadata of collections can be used in multiple ways: for the backend users, to inform the archive about structure and growth of its collection; to foster collection strategies; and to check metadata consistency, for the end-users, to give an overview to the collections, and thus to generate more awareness of the collection and its metadata, to give the enduser extra information to contextualize the entirety of the archive. We conclude with a discussion on how text based search combined with different type of visually enhanced browsing improves data access, navigation, and reuse in these two radically different contexts.
AB - In this paper we visually explore the data structure of two different visual platforms: the database behind the social environment of a social networking site, and the intricate infrastructure of a research institute for preservation of deposited datasets. We argue that visual analytics of metadata of collections can be used in multiple ways: for the backend users, to inform the archive about structure and growth of its collection; to foster collection strategies; and to check metadata consistency, for the end-users, to give an overview to the collections, and thus to generate more awareness of the collection and its metadata, to give the enduser extra information to contextualize the entirety of the archive. We conclude with a discussion on how text based search combined with different type of visually enhanced browsing improves data access, navigation, and reuse in these two radically different contexts.
KW - Archive
KW - Categories and classifications
KW - Deviant-art
KW - Metadata
KW - Social network sites
KW - Tree map
KW - User-generated collections
KW - Visual faceted browsing
KW - Visual interfaces to digital collections
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870505230&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2390867.2390870
DO - 10.1145/2390867.2390870
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870505230
SN - 9781450315944
T3 - PATCH 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012
SP - 7
EP - 10
BT - PATCH 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012
T2 - 2012 2nd ACM Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, PATCH 2012 - Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012
Y2 - 2 November 2012 through 2 November 2012
ER -