Hi Robin, that's very cool, real-time as well, as my search terms appeared almost instantly. Does it register keywords entered in google, that led to the repository, as well ? And do you do any spam protection ?
Innovative visualization can both increase the exposure of the repository's contents and get people enthusiastic about it. regards Bram @mire - http://www.atmire.com Technologielaan 9 - 3001 Heverlee - Belgium 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Robin Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bram, > > More fluff for the 'fun on Friday' category - I was asked to generate a > dynamic Wordcloud of search terms entered into our IR to be flashed up on a > big screen in our library. If you interested you can see it at > http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/searchQuery (** please use Mozilla as that's > what its designed for). As a piece of 'art' its rubbish in comparison with > what Wordle can produce, the only interesting thing to come out of the > exercise for me was the discovery that 99% of our searches come from > federated search engines rather than being entered directly via the UI. > > Cheers, Robin. > > > Robin Taylor > Main Library > University of Edinburgh > Tel. 0131 6513808 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bram Luyten > > Sent: 17 July 2009 14:00 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Dspace-general] Wordle visualization of DSpace content > > > > Hello, > > > > In the category, fun on friday, I was curious to investigate > > the results of feeding DSpace item titles into Wordle ( > > http://www.wordle.net ), and see what would come up. > > > > Wordle visualizes the occurrence of words for any amount of > > text you feed it. Basically Worlde counts the times a > > specific word occurs, and represents words that occur many > > times large, and words that only occur a few times, smaller, > > in one resulting picture. > > > > As a data source, I used K.U. Leuven's LIRIAS repository ( > > http://lirias.kuleuven.be ), a large and rapidly growing > > repository. This DSpace's hierarchy is subject oriented, as > > the communities and collections are organized according to > > the institution's organizational structure. For this > > experiment, I took three top level communities: the > > Biomedical Sciences group, the Humanities and Social Sciences > > group and last (but not least) the Sciences, Engineering and > > Technology group. > > > > Using @mire's reporting suite ( > > http://atmire.com/USB/resources/reporting_suite.html ) it > > took me five minutes to generate a clean list of the item > > titles of International Publications (a small subset of the > > content) for each of these top level communities, that were > > submitted in 2009 (500+ for each of these groups). > > > > These lists were used to create following Wordles: > > Humanities and Social Sciences - > > http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003572/K.U._Leuven_Humanit > > ies_and_Social_Sciences_publications_2009 > > Biomedical Sciences - > > http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003562/K.U._Leuven_Biomed_ > > Publications_2009 > > Science, Engineering and Technology - > > http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003577/K.U._Leuven_Science > > %2C_Engineering_and_Technology_publications_2009 > > > > It was funny to see that almost all titles were in english > > for the Biomed and SE&T groups. For Humanities and Social > > Sciences, there was a mix between english and dutch titles. > > Wordle allows you to filter the most common words (the, an, > > a, ...) for one particular language. So to clean the > > Humanities & Social Sciences Worldle from both english and > > dutch stop-words, I had to do some manual work on the list. > > > > Although already a sub-selection of three groups was made, > > you still see a lot of "generic" scientific terms, and not so > > many interesting subject keywords. That's quite logic, > > because although the scientists belong to the same group, > > they're still dealing with a variety of subjects. > > > > When zooming in on more specific subjects, here's the Wordle > > from the Computer Science department 2009 publications (one > > subcommunity level below the Groups): > > http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003647/K.U._Leuven_Compute > > r_Science_publications_2009 > > > > And even more specific, here's the one for the researchgroup > > of Experimental Radiotherapy, under the Department of > > Oncology in the group of Biomedical sciences. For this one, I > > took all of the publications from 2000-2009 to get a relevant > > selection. > > http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003638/K.U._Leuven_Experim > > ental_Radiotherapy_Publications_2000-2009 > > > > best regards, > > > > Bram Luyten > > > > @mire - http://www.atmire.com > > > > Technologielaan 9 - 3001 Heverlee - Belgium > > 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA > > > > http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther > > > > > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > >
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