Title
Sensemaking tools for understanding research literatures: Design, implementation and user evaluation
Abstract
This paper describes the work undertaken in the Scholarly Ontologies Project. The aim of the project has been to develop a computational approach to support scholarly sensemaking, through interpretation and argumentation, enabling researchers to make claims: to describe and debate their view of a document's key contributions and relationships to the literature. The project has investigated the technicalities and practicalities of capturing conceptual relations, within and between conventional documents in terms of abstract ontological structures. In this way, we have developed a new kind of index to distributed digital library systems. This paper reports a case study undertaken to test the sensemaking tools developed by the Scholarly Ontologies project. The tools used were ClaiMapper, which allows the user to sketch argument maps of individual papers and their connections, ClaiMaker, a server on which such models can be stored and saved, which provides interpretative services to assist the querying of argument maps across multiple papers and ClaimFinder, a novice interface to the search services in ClaiMaker.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2005.09.004
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital library,indexation
Ontology (information science),Ontology,World Wide Web,Computer science,Sensemaking,Argumentation theory,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Digital library,User interface,Argument map,Sketch
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
5
1071-5819
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
2.22
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victoria Uren1118478.67
Simon Buckingham Shum21415161.39
Michelle Bachler3807.64
Gangmin Li41159.35