William C. Wake 1-30-96NOTE: This draft does not have figures, and many formulas were ruined in the conversion. Introduction A user browsing a library’s online collection has several functions that are helpful in locating useful items: searching, sorting, and restricting sets of items. For the SortTables interface to support these functions, a key problem is […]
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SortTables – CIKM ’95 William C. Wake and Edward A. Fox Nov. 30, 1995 Presentation at CIKM ’95 Overview Browsing SortTables: A System for Browsing Design Goals and Implementation Experience Data Structures Future Directions Browsing: Physical Access to the item Potential access to all the items Sense of neighborhood Zooming Serendipity Browsing: Online Like physical […]
SortTables, A Browser – GraduateSeminar, 8-30-95 SortTables: A Browser for a Digital Library Bill Wake Graduate Seminar, VPI Computer Science Aug. 30, 1995 Overview Browsing SortTables: A System forBrowsing Evaluation of a Process Conclusion Browsing Physical Browsing Access to the item Potential access to all the items Sense of neighborhood Variable focus Serendipity Online Browsing […]
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SortTables – CIKM ’95
SortTables – A Browser for a Digital Library William C. Wake* and Edward A. Fox*# Department of Computer Science* and Computing Center#Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburg, VA 24061-0106{wakew, fox}@cs.vt.edu Abstract: Much research in information retrieval has focused more onmatching results to queries than on browsing those results. Afterbriefly exploring browsing in physical and electronic […]
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SortTables Error Log
SortTables Error Log Inspired by Knuth’s example of “The Errors of TeX” in Software – Practice and Experience. This is an attempt to capture the errors I made in SortTables software; my most common problem is carelessness, especially in reorganizing data structures. Date: dateSymptom: the-symptomCause: the-causeFix: the-fixLesson: the-lesson Date: 8-2-95 Symptom: System printed endless series […]