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Creating Visualisations for Digital Document Indexing

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009)

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Indexes are a well established method of locating information in printed literature just as find is a popular technique when searching in digital documents. However, document reader software has seldom adopted the concept of an index in a systematic manner. This paper describes an implemented system that not only facilitates user created digital indexes but also uses colour and size as key factors in their visual presentation. We report a pilot study that was conducted to test the validity of each visualisation and analyses the results of both the quantitative analysis and subjective user reviews.

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  1. FIT Lab, Swansea University, UK

    Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan & Harold Thimbleby

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  1. Jennifer Pearson
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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Borbinha

  3. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

  4. Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 72 Ioannou Theotoiki str., 49100, Corfu, Greece

    Christos Papatheodorou  & Giannis Tsakonas  & 

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Pearson, J., Buchanan, G., Thimbleby, H. (2009). Creating Visualisations for Digital Document Indexing. In: Agosti, M., Borbinha, J., Kapidakis, S., Papatheodorou, C., Tsakonas, G. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_10

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