1. How can heat maps of indexing vocabularies be utilized for information seeking purposes?
- Author
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Mutschke, Peter, Haddou ou Moussa, Karima, Mutschke, Peter, Mayr, Philipp, and Scharnhorst, Andrea
- Subjects
information capture ,Informationsgewinnung ,Information und Dokumentation ,anwendungsorientiert ,heat map ,knowledge map ,information management ,Indexierung ,Informationsmanagement ,ddc:070 ,Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives ,Information und Dokumentation, Bibliotheken, Archive ,applied research ,Begriff ,level of information ,information and documentation ,Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ,information retrieval ,Visualisierung ,Informationswissenschaft ,Information Science ,concept ,visualization ,Informationsstand ,News media, journalism, publishing ,indexing - Abstract
The ability to browse an information space in a structured way by exploiting similarities and dissimilarities between information objects is crucial for knowledge discovery. Knowledge maps use visualizations to gain insights into the structure of large-scale information spaces, but are still far away from being applicable for searching. The paper proposes a use case for enhancing search term recommendations by heat map visualizations of co-word relationships taken from indexing vocabulary. By contrasting areas of different “heat” the user is enabled to indicate mainstream areas of the field in question more easily. (author's abstract)
- Published
- 2014