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Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries

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Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries

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Visual interfaces may facilitate human to computer interaction as well as computer to human communication. In this paper, we introduce Garnet, a novel visual interface for interaction between humans and Digital Libraries. Garnet provides a visual workspace in which the user can structure and organize documents of interest. This structure is then used to organize and filter further documents which may be of interest, such as search results. Spatial hypertexts are introduced as a framework for creating DL interfaces, and Garnet is compared to existing DL and Spatial Hypertext systems.

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  1. Middlesex University, Bramley Road, N14 4YZ, London, UK

    George Buchanan

  2. UCL Interaction Centre, 26 Bedford Way, London

    Ann Blandford & Harold Thimbleby

  3. Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Matt Jones

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  1. School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 10th Street and Jordan Avenue, Main Library 019, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Katy Börner

  2. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, 19104-2875, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Chaomei Chen

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Buchanan, G., Blandford, A., Jones, M., Thimbleby, H. (2002). Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries. In: Börner, K., Chen, C. (eds) Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2539. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36222-3_2

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