Open AccessInfluence and provocation: Understanding relationships within a thematic research collection
Author(s) -
Audenaert Neal,
McGrew Timothy J.,
Kocmoud Christopher
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101166
Subject(s) - data collection , scholarship , context (archaeology) , thematic analysis , thematic map , conceptual framework , computer science , data science , sociology , qualitative research , social science , political science , history , geography , cartography , archaeology , law
In this poster, we present two interfaces for visualizing the relationships between ideas, issues and scholarship within a thematic research collection and discuss a graph‐based data model for representing those ideas. These interfaces are intended to support collection understanding and exploration for non‐specialist users within the context of a collection of 2000 historical documents spanning 300 years. The research question that drives the design of these tools is how to represent the deeply internalized conceptual framework acquired by a scholar over decades of study and communicate that information to non‐specialists effectively.