RaPIDS: Rapid Prototyping of Intuitive Discovery at Stanford
Federated Searching
Federated searching is a strategy for simultaneously searching a number of online resources and pooling the results into one interfiled result set. As part of the RaPIDS (Rapid Prototyping of Intuitive Discovery at Stanford) initiative, SULAIR is experimenting with federated searching as a means of giving scholars a broad view of disparate resources held across many different, isolated systems. For this effort, SULAIR is working with Deep Web Technologies. The company’s federated searching system, Explorit Research Accelerator, is currently powering a number of science, technology and government search portals, including National Digital Library for Agriculture (NDLA), Science.gov, Scitopia, and WorldWideScience.org. SULAIR has developed with Deep Web Technologies three demonstrations of federated searching within the Stanford environment:
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When I interned at Google last summer after getting my MSI degree, I worked on projects for the Book Search and Google Scholar teams. I didn’t know it at the time, but in completing my research over the course of the summer, I would become the resident expert on how universities were approaching Google Scholar as a research tool and how they were implementing Scholar on their library websites. Now working at an academic library, I seized a recent opportunity to sit down with Anurag Acharya, Google Scholar’s founding engineer, to delve a little deeper into how Scholar features are developed and prioritized, what Scholar’s scope and aims are, and where the product is headed.
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Principles of categorized search result visualization
We are developing a set of search result visualization principles, based on the premise that consistent, comprehensible visual displays built on meaningful and stable classifications will better support user understanding of search results.
1. Provide overviews of large sets of results (100-1000+)
2. Organize overviews around meaningful categories
3. Clarify and visualize category structure
4. Tightly couple category labels to result list
5. Ensure that the full category information is available
6. Support multiple types of categories and visual presentations
7. Use separate facets for each type of category
8. Arrange text for scanning/skimming
9. Visually encode quantitative attributes on a stable visual structure
The FacetedDBLP search interface allows to search computer science publications in the DBLP collection starting from some keyword and shows the result set along with a set of facets, e.g., distinguishing publication years, authors, or conferences. It is the first large scale application that uses GrowBag graphs to create a computer science specific topic facet, with which a user can characterize the result set in terms of main research topics and filter it according to certain subtopics.
FacetedDBLP builds upon the DBLP++ data set which is an enhancement of DBLP (as of 2008-11-21) plus additional keywords and abstracts as available on public web pages. We have also corrected some of the links to electronic editions, which were broken in DBLP. A brief description of the GrowBag facet within FacetedDBLP can be found in our JCDL paper, a detailed description of the algorithm is available on the GrowBag project page.
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