Desiderata for Exploratory Search Interfaces to Web Archives in Support of Scholarly Activities
| Autor: | Nick Ruest, Jimmy Lin, Andrew N. Jackson, Ian Milligan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Organizing principle Computer science Web archiving 05 social sciences Exploratory search Search engine results page 02 engineering and technology World Wide Web Metadata 020204 information systems Web page 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine Web content 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Web modeling |
| Zdroj: | JCDL |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2910896.2910912 |
| Popis: | Web archiving initiatives around the world capture ephemeral web content to preserve our collective digital memory. In this paper, we describe initial experiences in providing an exploratory search interface to web archives for humanities scholars and social scientists. We describe our initial implementation and discuss our findings in terms of desiderata for such a system. It is clear that the standard organization of a search engine results page (SERP), consisting of an ordered list of hits, is inadequate to support the needs of scholars. Shneiderman's mantra for visual information seeking ("overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand") provides a nice organizing principle for interface design, to which we propose an addendum: "Make everything transparent". We elaborate on this by highlighting the importance of the temporal dimension of web pages as well as issues surrounding metadata and veracity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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