04 EXPLORATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SEARCH flow Ornella Giau Tesi di laurea 2013 R03
Primary Problems of older versions AND NEW FOCUS • (lacking) explorative aspect • function oriented • (unclear) connection between visualizations
NEW FLOW: basic elements
NEW FLOW: basic elements Compleate dataset organized on TIME and in CATEGORIES
NEW FLOW: basic elements
CATEGORIES
Width of bars represents amount of documents assigned to each category. This develops in time creating a stream graph
NEW FLOW: basic elements
TIME
Timeline can be “zoomed” by a selector and portion of dataset is displayed
NEW FLOW: browsing content
NEW FLOW: browsing content
By selecting a subcategory, documents are individually visualised. Other categories are rearranged to still show proportional height
NEW FLOW: browsing content
By selecting a subcategory, documents are individually visualised. Other categories are rearranged to still show proportional height
NEW FLOW: browsing content
Another way to browse content in the general view is...
NEW FLOW: browsing content
...using the magnifier tool that shows details of the focused section. NOTE: tool bar not yet defined
NEW FLOW: browsing content
cited documents
Hovering a document will preview his bibliographic connections in all content
document who cites it
NEW FLOW: full text exploration
When selected we have a full text view and connections are highlighted
NEW FLOW: full text exploration
Not all connections are highlighted at the same time, only those related to visible text.
NEW FLOW: full text exploration
Hovering a citation will display where in the text is can be found and the related extract
NEW FLOW: full text exploration
The same happens for refence that cite the selected document.
NEW FLOW: full text exploration
“Zooming in” in time will cause single documents to be displayed more clearly
NEW FLOW: full text exploration
NEW FLOW: search function
The search function can be expanded. ICONS on top show a preview of how many results we will have with the current settings.
NEW FLOW: search function
The search function can be expanded. ICONS on top show a preview of how many results we will have with current settings. User can narrow search by selecting categories he is most interested in
NEW FLOW: search function
The search function can be expanded. ICONS on top show a preview of how many results we will have with the current settings. User can narrow search by selecting categories he is most interested in
NEW FLOW: compare
Search results are highighted in the current view of content
NEW FLOW: compare
User can select a maximum of three documents to compare them
NEW FLOW: compare
Bibliographic links are displayed over time
NEW FLOW: compare
Or over categories
NEW FLOW: compare
NEW FLOW: compare full text
COMPLETE FLOW
04 GRAZIE / THANKS / DANKE Ornella Giau Tesi di laurea 2013 R03