WPv4: a re-imagined Walden's paths to support diverse user communities

Authors:
Paul Logasa Bogen, II;Daniel Pogue;Faryaneh Poursardar;Yuangling Li;Richard Furuta;Frank Shipman
Affiliations:
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2011

Citing 4
Cited 1

Hypertext paths and the World-Wide Web: experiences with Walden's Paths

HYPERTEXT '97 Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext
Browsing intricately interconnected paths

Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Dynamically growing hypertext collections

Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Enhancing digital libraries with social navigation: the case of ensemble

ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries

Identifying "soft 404" error pages: analyzing the lexical signatures of documents in distributed collections

TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The Walden's Paths Project, as part of our philosophy of continual evaluation, seeks out user communities who may find our tool useful. However, our users, in the last few years, have reported a series of common issues and desired features. In order to support our users, we initiated a redesign of Walden's Paths to solve these problems and enable us to rapidly prototype and experiment with features and interfaces. In order to accomplish these goals, we have created a web service that handles the storage and representation of our Path data structure. This service is isolated from user interface layers, allowing multiple interface designs to be implemented on top of the same Path data structures. Our prototype interfaces also represent new areas for Paths such as collaborative work, offline presentation, and mobile computing.