Hoeber, O., Harvey, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-2089, Momeni, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Exploratory search in digital humanities: a study of visual keyword/result linking. In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 25-29 Oct 2024, Calgary, AB, Canada. Wiley-Blackwell , pp. 161-171.
Abstract
While searching within digital humanities collections is an important aspect of digital humanities research, the search features provided are usually more suited to lookup search than exploratory search. This limits the ability of digital humanities scholars to undertake complex search scenarios. Drawing upon recent studies on supporting exploratory search in academic digital libraries, we implemented two visual keyword/result linking approaches for searching within the Europeana collection; one that keeps the keywords linked to the search results and another that aggregates the keywords over the search result set. Using a controlled laboratory study, we assessed these approaches in comparison to the existing Europeana search mechanisms. We found that both visual keyword/result linking approaches were improvements over the baseline, with some differences between the new approaches that were dependent on the stage of the exploratory search process. This work illustrates the value of providing advanced search functionality within digital humanities collections to support exploratory search processes, and the need for further design and study of digital humanities search tools that support complex search scenarios.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a paper published in Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Interactive information retrieval; exploratory search; digital humanities collections; user study; Europeana |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2024 14:08 |
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2024 14:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/pra2.1017 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213010 |