Interacting With Information

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Interacting With Information

Digital Libraries Initiative

Project Facts

Outline

Infrastructure: The InfoBus

There is more to Digital Libraries than Search!

Problem: Task-Based Interaction With Digital Library Facilities

User Interface Goals

The DLITE Interface

Browsing and Searching

DLITE Ancestry

Java Genes

Direct Manipulation Genes

CORBA Genes

Problem: Understanding/Using Search Results

SenseMaker

Organizational Structure

Collection-Building Actions

First Try: Tables

Lessons from Table-Based Approach

Case in Point: Tables and Citation Sets

Answer: Genre-Specific Representations

Some Lessons (Re)-Learned

Outline

Documents: Model and Conventions

Attribute Names: USMARC and DLs

Attribute Models

Stanford Metadata Architecture

Outline

User Traditions Impact Technology Choices

Query Translation

The Phrase/Keyword Unification Dilemma

Conclusion

CORBA Basics: Communication

If I Had One Wish in the Whole World

RDF and the Stanford Metadata Architecture

Attribute Model Translator

Attribute Models

Author: Andreas Paepcke

Email: paepcke@cs.stanford.edu

Home Page: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu