Visually Exploring Books along their Subject Headings

Coljee-Gray, Cody; Dörk, Marian; Carpendale, Sheelagh

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Title

Visually Exploring Books along their Subject Headings

Author(s)

• Coljee-Gray, Cody
• Dörk, Marian
• Carpendale, Sheelagh

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• information visualization
• tag clouds
• information seeking
• subject headings
• library search

Abstract

We present a visualization of subject headings that typically accompany books as flat textual metadata. The purpose of the visualization is twofold: first to expose the implicit structure in subject headings as an overview of a library collection and second to present a visual web of keywords to invite exploration of books. Taking a tag cloud as a starting point, the visualization extends it to a networked tag cloud that respects the hierarchy that is implicit in subject headings. By allowing an information seeker to successively build a subject filter, while seeing the results at each step, we hope to improve the searcher's orientation in a comprehensive book collection

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47281

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14347

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