Professional Reading Shelf
Web Search Results
Source: Proc. Third Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, December 2004, Washington, DC / University of Maryland HCI Lab
New, Categorized Graphical Overviews for Web Search Results: An Exploratory Study Using U.S. Government Agencies as a Meaningful and Stable Structure
"Search engines are very effective at generating long lists of results that are highly relevant to user-provided query terms . But the lack of effective overviews presents challenges to users who seek to understand these results, especially for a complex task such as learning about a topic area, which requires gaining overviews of and exploring large sets of search results, identifying unusual documents, and understanding their context. Categorizing the results into comprehensible visual displays using meaningful and stable classifications can support user exploration and understanding of large sets of search results. This extended abstract presents a set of principles that we are developing for search result visualization. It also describes an exploratory study that investigated categorized overviews of search results for complex search tasks within the domain of U. S. government web sites, using a hierarchy based on the federal government organization."
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Libraries and Librarians
Source: Ariadne A New Issue (No.42) of Ariadne is Now Online
Articles include:
+ The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives
+ Making the Case for a Wiki
+ A Librarian's Experience of e-Government
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Medical Libraries and Librarianship
Source: MLA The January 2005 Issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association is Now Online
Articles include:
+ The Virtual Naval Hospital: the digital library as knowledge management tool for nomadic patrons
+ Trends in academic health sciences libraries and their emergence as the "knowledge nexus" for their academic health centers
+ State of the art of expert searching: results of a Medical Library Association survey
+ An evolution of experts: MEDLINE in the library school
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