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1 DAFFODIL Effective Support for Using Digital Libraries Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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2 Desktop system for federated digital libraries
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3 Drawbacks of today’s DLs In all workflow phases multiple access points multiple query forms poor functionality
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4 Daffodil concepts: Focus on the user 1. Strategic information access support 2. Proactive system support 3. Digital library life cycle 4. Collaboration
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5 1. Strategic information access support Levels of search activities (Bates 1990): 1. Move: Low-level search function (e.g. type in search term, view retrieved document) 2. Tactic: several moves to further a search (e.g. broaden/narrow a query) 3. Stratagem: set of actions on a single domain (citation database, tables of contents of journals) 4. Strategy: complete plan for satisfying an information need (e.g. subject search, browse relevant journals, find referenced articles)
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6 Search Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies
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7 Result list Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies
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8 Detail view Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies
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9 Extract from Result List Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies
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10 Stratagems on the Desktop – Subject Search – Journal/Conference Run – Author networks – Citation Search Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies
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11 Author Networks Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies – GUI
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12 Citation Search: Reference Tracking Moves – Tactics – Stratagems – Strategies
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13 Evaluation of strategic support Evaluation with 28 subjects Methods: questionnaire, logging, video Tasks of different complexity:
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14 Evaluation of strategic support – Only for very simple tasks (known item retrieval), other methods may be faster – Complex tasks are supported very effectively
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15 2. Proactive system support Spell checking
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16 Proactivity during query formulation Semantically inconsistent queries
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17 Proactivity during query formulation Related Terms
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18 Usability studies 30 subjects Focus on query formulation Results: Users feel rather uncertain – submit the same query several times, – stare at the keyboard Users ignore hints shown elsewhere on the desktop Improvements through proactive functions: Fewer syntactical and semantic errors Better tactical decisions Users feel more confident
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19 Proactivity: Search continuation Suggestions based on automatic analysis of current search result Using case-based reasoning Availability indicated by unobtrusive button at bottom
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20 Search continuation Suggestions presented in ranked list Descriptive title, explanation and score bar Execute one or more suggestion and judge them Icons indicate status of suggestion (executable, used, useful)
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21 Search continuation - evaluation 12 participants in pilot study, each spending 40- 50 minutes with the system Case base initially contained 25 cases (generic situations) and 16 solutions (suggestions) Results: Search novices and casual users found suggestions on advanced tools most useful Experienced users liked extraction of terms, authors,... from results Might have used tactics on their own, but advice helped them avoid trial-and-error
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22 3. Digital library life cycle
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23 3. Digital library life cycle
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24 3. Digital library life cycle
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25 3. Digital library life cycle
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26 3. Digital library life cycle
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27 3. Digital library life cycle
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28 Collate – Personal library Folder hierarchy (e.g. task-oriented) Save all digital library objects Document Metadata Authors Journals, Conferences Hyperlinks Query formulations Fulltexts Save own documents in the same folders Papers Presentations Discover – Retrieve – Collate – Interpret – Re-Present
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29 Personal Library
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30 Interpret: Annotations Annotation of any object in the personal library (out-of-line/inline) Annotations can be typed and nested Retrieval of annotations (POLAR: Probabilistic Object Logic for Annotation Retrieval) Discover – Retrieve – Collate – Interpret – Re-Present
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31 Re-Present (support generation of new information) Export folders from personal library Discover – Retrieve – Collate – Interpret – Re-Present
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32 4. Collaboration Personal Group Public
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33 Discover – Retrieve – Collate – Interpret – Re-Present New objects Filed by other users recommendation Collation and awareness
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34 Collaborate interpretation Annotation threads Discover – Retrieve – Collate – Interpret – Re-Present
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35 Collaboration: Chat-Tool Help Discussion Object exchange Ask an expert (Librarian) Chatter-Bot
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36 5. Further Applications European National Libraries
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37 Application to Image and Music Retrieval
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38 Application to XML Retrieval
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39 XML Retrieval: INEX Interactive Track Evaluation with 80 subjects from 10 research groups
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40 6. Summary Daffodil concepts 1. Strategic information access support 2. Proactive system support 3. Digital library life cycle 4. Collaboration Successful evaluations for 1 and 2 Daffodil can be easily ported and extended for other application domains Daffodil is part of our user-oriented research on interactive, distributed information systems http://www.daffodil.de
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