A self-organizing semantic map for information retrieval
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Internet browsing and searching: user evaluations of category map and concept space techniques
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
On Geometry and Transformation in Map-Like Information Visualization
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
Multi-Faceted Insight Through Interoperable Visual Information Analysis Paradigms
INFOVIS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents
INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
ECSCW'03 Proceedings of the eighth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Self organization of a massive document collection
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Organisations have access to unreadable volumes of textual data and yet individuals are required to make sense of emerging practices and events from this blizzard of information. Tools that provide an overview of unstructured information to aid higher level understanding are now easily available. These category mapping tools have not been widely used. This paper describes the implementation and use of one such tool within a large commercial research organisation. We highlight two aspects of sense-making that come into play. First, the organisation struggles to make sense of what it does and what it does not know in the context of a surfeit of information. Second, in order to exploit appropriate tools in this process, the organisation must also make sense of the value and use of these tools.