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SchenQL: Evaluation of a Query Language for Bibliographic Metadata

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Digital Libraries at Times of Massive Societal Transition (ICADL 2020)

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Information access needs to be uncomplicated, as users may not benefit from complex and potentially richer data that may be less easy to obtain. A user’s demand for answering more sophisticated research questions including aggregations could be fulfilled by the usage of SQL. However, this comes with the cost of high complexity, which requires for a high level of expertise even for trained programmers. A domain-specific query language could provide a straightforward solution to this problem. Although less generic, it is desirable that users not familiar with query construction are supported in the formulation of complex information needs.

In this paper, we extend and evaluate SchenQL, a simple and applicable query language that is accompanied by a prototypical GUI. SchenQL focuses on querying bibliographic metadata while using the vocabulary of domain-experts. The easy-to-learn domain-specific query language is suitable for domain-experts as well as casual users while still providing the possibility to answer complicated queries. Query construction and information exploration is supported by the prototypical GUI. Eventually, the complete system is evaluated: interviews with domain-experts and a bipartite quantitative user study demonstrate SchenQL’s suitability and high level of users’ acceptance.

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    Christin Katharina Kreutz, Michael Wolz, Benjamin Weyers & Ralf Schenkel

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Kreutz, C.K., Wolz, M., Weyers, B., Schenkel, R. (2020). SchenQL: Evaluation of a Query Language for Bibliographic Metadata. In: Ishita, E., Pang, N.L.S., Zhou, L. (eds) Digital Libraries at Times of Massive Societal Transition. ICADL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12504. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64452-9_30

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