Designing map-based visualizations for collection understanding

  • Authors:
  • Olga (Olha) Buchel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper describes a conceptualization of collection understanding task and its implementation in a map-based visualization (MBV) prototype that represents a library collection. Unlike previous conceptualizations that treat a collection as a whole composed of documents, our conceptualization is grounded in widely-researched concepts "collection" and "understanding.