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Collections: flexible, essential tools for information management

CHI'04 extended abstracts on Human factors …, 2004

While collections-aggregation mechanisms such as folders, buddy lists, photo albums, etc.-clearly play a central role in information management, the potential benefits of true first class support for collections are masked by disparate implementations that force users to pay attention to technological distinctions such as application, format, and protocol. We argue that systems should expose a single unified concept of collection and that concepts such as portals, cross-application projects, customized menus, and e-mail-task ...

Digital Collection Creator, Visualizer and Explorer

2019

In this paper we introduce and discuss a recent project, called CortaColaEspia, aimed at extending with some extra relevant features the ’Ontology-based Collection Processor’ developed previously in the context of a Compilers course. The basic processor, based on the OntoDL tool, was able to read the ontological description of a small collection of objects (cards, pencils, toys, etc.) and produce automatically a web-based exhibition space to display the objects, providing a conceptual navigation through them. The extension under discussion is intended to create a new DSL to describe the details of the exhibition room organization (what concepts and relations to show; where and how to show them; etc.). A second objective consists of a new module to merge two collections, or to enrich a collection with extra information about the collected objects. The last requirement is the incorporation of a natural language processor to analyze the objects’ captions or short inscriptions in order ...

Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It

Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive, allows users to create, maintain and view digital collections of web resources. The current interface of Archive-It is largely text-based, supporting drill-down navigation using lists of URIs. To provide an overview of each collection and highlight the collection's underlying characteristics, we present four alternate visualizations (image plot with histogram, wordle, bubble chart and timeline). The sites in an Archive-It collection may be organized by the collection curator into groups for easier navigation. However, many collections do not have such groupings, making them difficult to explore. We introduce a heuristics-based categorization for such collections.

Bonolo: A General Digital Library System for File-Based Collections

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012

There is an ever-increasing amount of digital content being generated that needs to be well-organised, preserved and made accessible. The majority of generic repository software tools that currently exist are, arguably, overly complex, thus making collections difficult to manage and maintain in resource constrained environments. A possible solution to this problem would, in part, require designing digital library tools and services that are simple and easy to manage. This paper describes a digital library system that is based on a set of design decisions aimed at simplifying repository software architectures. The proposed system makes use of a hierarchical file-store for storage of digital objects. Evaluation of the system by means of a user experience study was conducted to investigate the usefulness of the system, its relative ease of use and what effect, if any, the architecture would have on the user experience. Experimental results showed that users found the system useful, effective and easy to use and that the architecture did not appear to negatively influence the user experience.

A multi-faceted browsing interface for digital photo collections

2009

Managing photos by using visual features (e.g., color and texture) is known to be a powerful, yet imprecise, retrieval paradigm because of the semantic gap problem. The same is true if search relies only on keywords (or tags), derived from either the image context or user-provided annotations. In this paper we present a new multi-faceted image search and browsing system, named Scenique, that allows the user to manage her photo collections by using both visual features and tags, possibly organized into multiple dimensions (or facets). Each facet can be seen as a coordinate of a multidimensional space describing the image content (for example, the visual appearance, the content type, the geographic location, and so on). We present the basic principles of Scenique and provide evidence of the effectiveness of its visual tools. Feedback supplied by a set of real users indicates that the proposed interface is intuitive, easy to use, and that satisfies users' expectations in managing photo collections and quickly locating images of interest.

User modelling for interactive user-adaptive collection structuring

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2008

Automatic structuring is one means to ease access to document collections, be it for organization or for exploration. Of even greater help would be a presentation that adapts to the user's way of structuring and thus is intuitively understandable. We extend an existing useradaptive prototype system that is based on a growing self-organizing map and that learns a feature weighting scheme from a user's interaction with the system resulting in a personalized similarity measure. The proposed approach for adapting the feature weights targets certain problems of previously used heuristics. The revised adaptation method is based on quadratic optimization and thus we are able to pose certain contraints on the derived weighting scheme. Moreover, thus it is guaranteed that an optimal weighting scheme is found if one exists. The proposed approach is evaluated by simulating user interaction with the system on two text datasets: one artificial data set that is used to analyze the performance for different user types and a real world data set-a subset of the banksearch dataset-containing additional class information.

CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections

Again focusing on current digital curation tools and methods, it will inform participants but also encourage conversation about the latest worldwide developments in, and applications of, digital curation in diverse professional contexts. Nineteen returning experts will provide updates on their digital curation projects and describe other current work. Five

Collection Development in the Digital Age

Library Management, 2012

At the beginning of modern librarianship, in the early modern period, at the time of the Kunst-and Wunderkammern, the so-called cabinets of curiosities, the common origin of libraries and museums, the library has still been equated with the term "collection" and vice versa. Back then it has already been an integral part of library collections that those were compiled with sustainability in mind and were aimed at the public, although this was restricted. The latter was the reason for the introduction of a rigid organization for the collection objects which turned the mere accumulation of books into an organized entity, thus facilitated their presentation and use, and foremost let them become an institution, the "library". It is important to be aware of those basic aspects of library collections, if one would like to understand, what changes have happened especially in the last two decades with the rise and triumph of digital information as well as with the invention of the Internet and with the libraries. Today in the age of the so-called "hybrid library" that hosts in its collection printed resources as well as digital resources under on (real and virtual) roof, the libraries foremost have to develop a coherent service concept taking into account the media break. They have come under enormous pressure from the demand side as well