Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) [Paperback]

Katy Borner (Editor), Chaomei Chen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 2003 | ISBN-10: 3540002472 | ISBN-13: 978-3540002475 | Edition: 1

Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries exploit the power of human vision and spatial cognition to help individuals mentally organize and electronically access and manage large and complex information spaces. They draw on progress in the field of information visualization and seek to shift the users' mental load from slow reading to faster perceptual processes such as visual pattern recognition.
Based on two workshops, the book presents an introductory overview as well as a closing listing of the top ten problems in the area by the volume editors. Also included are 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers organized in topical sections on visual interfaces to documents, document parts, document variants, and document usage data; visual interfaces to image and video documents; visualization of knowledge domains; cartographic interfaces to digital libraries; and a general framework.

Product Details

• Paperback: 243 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540002472
• ISBN-13: 978-3540002475
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,605,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (http://cns.iu.edu) at Indiana University. She is a curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit (http://scimaps.org) and a prolific speaker. Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity; and the development of cyberinfrastructures for large scale scientific collaboration and computation. She holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig, 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, 1997. Her home page is at http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~katy and the Atlas of Science is at http://scimaps.org/atlas.