Hi Robin and Bram!
Your both works are very interesting... and visualy pleasant!
I hope we can (one day) merge this kind of displays with autorithy list
management: search concepts (and not only words) would be weighted and
presented in one language (whatever language was used by the original user).
Meanwhile, I forward your message to my users to know if they would be
interested (one day)...
Frequent Words Index:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003562/K.U._Leuven_Biomed_Publications_2009
<http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003562/K.U._Leuven_Biomed_>
Real time "current" users' queries:
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/searchQuery
Have a nice day!
Christophe
Bram Luyten a écrit :
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
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Robin Taylor <[email protected]
<mailto:[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]
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> Sent: 17 July 2009 14:00
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[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
>
>
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