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While methods for retrieving documents from large information repositories have improved a lot, presentation of the retrieved documents still leaves a lot to be desired. Important information on documents is usually presented as a textual listing of available metadata attributes such as document size, author information, date of creation, and so on. This requires the user to read and abstract from the presented metainformat ion.
In this paper we present our lib Viewer system, a Java-Applet interfacing with a number of servers to provide an intuitive metaphor-graphics based representation of document repositories. Contrary to most other multidimensional data visualization approaches we rely on intuitive real-world metaphors to provide a visualization for untrained users rather than experts in special interfaces. We introduce a set of metaphors and.present two prototype systems interfacing with Dublin Core metadata based repositories as well as the AltaVista search engine. We further provide a first usability evaluation based on comments obtained from users.
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Rauber, A., Bina, H. (2000). Visualizing Electronic Document Repositories: Drawing Books and Papers in a Digital Library. In: Arisawa, H., Catarci, T. (eds) Advances in Visual Information Management. VDB 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 40. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35504-7_7
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