Gerry,
Thanks for noting HighWire's work with the topic map. The topic
map is primarily a visualization and navigation tool for an
end-user (researcher) subject/topic taxonomy that is intended to
help bridge the gap between keyword searching and more useful
topic-based searching when researchers are in the initial
stages of research.
We now also tell a searcher when a set of keywords they have
asked for match the keywords that typically are related to a
whole topic, so they can switch to a topic navigation and search
mode if they wish. E.g., a search for "aphasia" shows a set of
topics towards the top right of the result page, in addition to
a list of nearly 10,000 search results:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/searchresults?&andorexactfulltext=and&fulltext=aphasia&src=ml&resourcetype=1&sortspecbrief=date&sortspec=date
The list of topics (of course) lets a researcher move to other
levels in the topic hierarchy either by clicking (as Yahoo's
topics allow you to move up levels) or by visual browsing (using
the Topic Map you mentioned in your email).
You might also want to look at the tool we've recently (last
week) introduced called "Citation Map", which lets a reader
visualize the network of citations (for the most highly cited
citations) to and from a given article. This isn't available
for all articles (just the ones that have a good number of
citations to map), but if you get a search result in the
HighWire portal ( http://highwire.stanford.edu ), you can click
on the Citation Map link you see with some of the items (the
ones for which we have a citation history) in the search result.
Or you can just try this link to see a sample map or two:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/citemap?id=jbc%3B274%2F37%2F26003
or this:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/citemap?id=sci%3B275%2F5307%2F1784&num_shown=11
We have several more services in development (I'll write you
about them separately, since they are not yet available), all of
which are optimized to aid in the "discovery services" realm,
where we feel that current keyword searching is "hit or miss".
John
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:42:46 -0500 Gerry Mckiernan
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> _New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces_
>
> For a forthcoming article, I am interested in identifying additional
> "innovative information interfaces."
>
> I am particularly interested in novel interfaces for e-journal collections, such as:
>
> the Topic Map in the High Wire Press collection
> [ http://highwire.stanford.edu/ ] [Browse using TopicMap, a graphical viewer ] [What's this? : http://highwire.stanford.edu/help/hbt/ ]
>
> AND
>
> the Vivisimo [ http://vivisimo.com/] clustering offered in the Institute of Physics (IOP) e-journal collection [http://www.iop.org/ ]
>
> [ http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020325-2.htm ]
>
> In addition, I am interested in innovative interfaces such as those found in the AquaBrowser
>
> [http://www.medialab.nl/engels/aquabrowser/index.html ]
> AND
>
> Kartoo [http://www.kartoo.com ]
>
> [ http://www.kartoo.net/en/pgpresseecran.html]
>
> I am also interested innovative OPAC interfaces such as the 3D virtual reality interface to the library/catalog of the Médiathèque
> [ http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/infos/vrml/ ] [Requires Cosmo plug-in]
> [http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/Fingerhut99a/ ]
>
> As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, critiques, queries, questions, Cosmic Insights, Etc. are Most Welcome!
>
> Regards,
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> 3-D Librarian
> Iowa State University
> Ames IA 50011
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