Visual Interfaces to Collections

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1 Data Archiving and Networked Services Visual Interfaces to Collections Andrea Scharnhorst (in collaboration with Olav ten Bosch and Peter Doorn) September 6, 2012 Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield UK, September 6-8, 2012 DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO ehumani)es.nl

2 The problem why we did this experiment? Data Archiving and Networked Services Anna van Saksenlaan 10, 2593 HT The Hague. P.O. Box 93067, 2509 AB The Hague. T +31 (0) , F +31 (0) , E info@dans.knaw.nl

3 Search interfaces

4 The institutional/disciplinary context where we did the experiment? Data Archiving and Networked Services Anna van Saksenlaan 10, 2593 HT The Hague. P.O. Box 93067, 2509 AB The Hague. T +31 (0) , F +31 (0) , E info@dans.knaw.nl

5 Data Archiving and Networked Services - an archive for research data Institute of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Research Funding Organisation (KNAW & NWO) since 2005 First predecessor dates back to 1964 (Steinmetz Foundation), Historical Data Archive 1989 Mission: promote and provide permanent access to digital research information (started with digital archives in the humanities and social sciences) Since 2011 eresearch group

6 E-humanities group ehumanities.nl Sally Wyatt Literary Studies, Computational Linguistics, Musicology, History, Political sciences, Cultural Studies, Complex Networks, Semantic Web Communication behavior in humanities/physics (RIN study with OII), ACUMEN Scientific careers; Enhanced publications; Internet Science EINS

7 The visual turn in scientometrics information sciences Large collection of massive data available Algorithms to analyze and visualize these data Data Archiving and Networked Services Anna van Saksenlaan 10, 2593 HT The Hague. P.O. Box 93067, 2509 AB The Hague. T +31 (0) , F +31 (0) , E info@dans.knaw.nl

8 Only use this slide to present a screenshot of an application. As no style is applied, the screenshot can take up the whole slide. For all other information please use the slide with preset style! Source: Places and Spaces scimaps.org Klavans/Boyack

9 The experiment what did we do? Data Archiving and Networked Services Anna van Saksenlaan 10, 2593 HT The Hague. P.O. Box 93067, 2509 AB The Hague. T +31 (0) , F +31 (0) , E info@dans.knaw.nl

10 ElectronicArchivingSYstem and NARCIS Core services ( products ) of DANS

11 Disciplinary composition of EASY

12 The category tree used in EASY Numbers don t add up!? They should not add up!!! Used as controlled vocabulary they get linked via co- classifica)on.

13 Experimen)ng with visualiza)ons: circle packing

14 Experimen)ng with visualiza)ons: treemaps

15 Scharnhorst, Andrea, Olav ten Bosch, and Peter Doorn Looking at a Digital Research Data Archive - Visual Interfaces to EASY. Digital Libraries; Physics and Society (April 14). hcp://arxiv.org/abs/

16 Designing interfaces to collections visual enhanced browsing All datasets in the digital archive of DANS at one glance.

17 Steps towards visual enhanced/facetted browsing Implementa)on Crea)on of descrip)ons Structure of a collec)on (composi)on, evolu)on) Visualiza)ons Search func)ons Combina)on with IR User behavior Applica)on to living collec)ons AH CS M&P SoSc

18 eresearch DANS Katy Börner Rene van Horik Frank van der Most Linda Reijnhoudt Dirk Roorda NARCIS, Visualiza)ons Scien)fic careers and cultures Queries as annota)ons, Sustainability and CLARIN, Circula)on of permanence, mul)- media of data sharing, ACUMEN knowledge sources, APARSEN, NEDIMAH Peter Doorn ehistory, Clarin, Dariah, Clariah Director of DANS Christophe Guéret Albert Moroño Peñuela Seman)c web, complex networks CEDAR Leen Breure Enhanced publica)ons, ehistory Seman)c web, CEDAR Indiana University Visi)ng fellow DANS- KNAW Ashkan Askpour History, informa)on sciences, IISH CEDAR Olav ten Bosch Dras)c data Cheng Goa, Krzysztof Suchecki, Almila Akdag KNOWLEDGE SPACE LAB Thank you for your attention! For more information please contact