Using Maps as a User Interface to a Digital Library
Mountaz
HASCOET
LRI - URA 410 CNRS - Bat. 490,
Université Paris-sud - 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
Xavier
SOINARD
Electricité de France – Research Department,
1, Av. du Général De Gaulle - 92140 Clamart, France
Abstract
The Nemo project aims to develop a graphical interface
contributing to
fast navigation and exploration in the Digital Library of EDF. The
digital library of EDF
contains collections of documents in SGML-HyTime format, containing
information on people,
activities, projects, scientific work, etc. These documents are
currently accessed through
traditional boolean query interface and the aim of the Nemo project is
to provide
customizable graphical maps of documents resulting from a query. The
originality of the
maps lies in the fact that (1) they are computed dynamically from the
characteristics of
the data retrieved with a query, (2) the mapping of graphical attributes
with data
characteristics is highly and easily customizable and (3) map layout
account for a
perspective (or classification system) that is also customizable.
SIGIR'98
24-28 August 1998
Melbourne, Australia.
sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au.