Paper Info
Title
Using synchronised tag clouds for browsing data collections
Abstract
Tag clouds have become a popular means of visualising and browsing data, especially in Web 2.0 applications. We show how they can be used to provide flexible and intuitive interfaces to web search services over data collections by using multiple synchronised tag clouds to browse that data. A data collection can have alternative tag clouds and a tag cloud alternative visualisations, with the choice of tag cloud and visualisation at any time controlled by a combination of user selection, developer specification and default system behaviour. A search interface is defined by an augmented data model that specifies the viewer classes, their associated tag clouds and the visualisations of these tag clouds. We demonstrate the approach by describing how we implemented a web application to browse data related to researchers and their publications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21640-4_17
CA(i)SE
Keywords
Field
DocType
data collection,tag cloud,augmented data model,alternative tag cloud,browsing data collection,tag cloud alternative visualisations,browsing data,associated tag cloud,web application,multiple synchronised tag cloud,search interface,tag clouds,data visualisation
Data browsing,Data collection,World Wide Web,Data visualization,Information retrieval,Visualization,Computer science,Search interface,Tag cloud,Web application,Data model
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandre de Spindler1659.54
Stefania Leone28311.18
Michael Nebeling335629.81
Matthias Geel4486.46
Moira C. Norrie51317201.70