Supporting Serendipitous and Focused Search

TY - CHAP

T1 - Supporting Serendipitous and Focused Search

AU - Zhang, J.

N1 - Reporting year: 2012 Metis note: online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-909/

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - People with complex information needs are for example Humanities researchers, who need advanced search engines to investigate their research questions. Much can be gained by combining research datasets, reusing tools and serendipitously discovering new insights for further research. Humanities researchers have different (large-scale) research datasets and tools, which are described differently with metadata. We present a highly interactive advanced search engine for Humanities researchers that semantically converges differently structured metadata records from different collections and institutions. It has features that support serendipitous and focused search in context based on the structure of the metadata used. This single system serves Humanities researchers by allowing them to search interactively across yet unexplored (research) data, discover patterns, locate relevant data for new insights, and find existing tools that could provide novel use cases.

AB - People with complex information needs are for example Humanities researchers, who need advanced search engines to investigate their research questions. Much can be gained by combining research datasets, reusing tools and serendipitously discovering new insights for further research. Humanities researchers have different (large-scale) research datasets and tools, which are described differently with metadata. We present a highly interactive advanced search engine for Humanities researchers that semantically converges differently structured metadata records from different collections and institutions. It has features that support serendipitous and focused search in context based on the structure of the metadata used. This single system serves Humanities researchers by allowing them to search interactively across yet unexplored (research) data, discover patterns, locate relevant data for new insights, and find existing tools that could provide novel use cases.

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

SP - 79

EP - 82

BT - Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 25, 2012, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073

A2 - Wilson, M.L.

A2 - Russell-Rose, T

A2 - Larsen, B

A2 - Kalbach, J

ER -