Collection-level analysis tools for books online

  • Authors:
  • Catherine C. Marshall

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Efforts to develop ebook-based functionality have focused thusfar on the individual artifact--the hardware and software reader--and on promoting user engagement with the page by supporting annotation, clipping, and navigation. In this position paper, I will discuss collection-level analytic functionality that will take advantage of the characteristics of online bodies of literature. This functionality includes (1) wisdom-of-crowds tools; (2) analytic tools for gathering; and (3) form- and function-based discovery tools.