Accessing Libraries as Easy as a Game
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
The SOMLib Digital Library System
ECDL '99 Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
INVISIP: Usage of Information Visualization Techniques to Access Geospatial Data Archives
DEXA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Metadata-enhanced visual interfaces to digital libraries
Journal of Information Science
The bohemian bookshelf: supporting serendipitous book discoveries through information visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The use of metadata in visual interfaces to digital libraries
ECDL'07 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Blended shelf: reality-based presentation and exploration of library collections
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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While methods for searching large digital libraries have experienced tremendous improvements recently, interfaces to such collections still have a far way to go. Most interfaces to digital libraries present themselves as various forms of sorted lists, providing metadata information on the documents in textual form. This prohibits intuitive understanding of document archives or web search results. In this paper we present the libViewer, a Java-based user interface to digital libraries using metaphor graphics to display information on the elements in a digital library in an intuitively understandable way. Metadata on digital libraries based on the Dublin Core Initiative is mapped onto a set of metaphors to allow instant recognition and orientation in an unknown document collection, facilitating interactive retrieval and exploration.