Hi Robin,<br><br>that's very cool, real-time as well, as my search terms appeared almost instantly.<br> Does it register keywords entered in google, that led to the repository, as well ?<br>And do you do any spam protection ?<br>
<br>Innovative visualization can both increase the exposure of the repository's contents and get people enthusiastic about it.<br><br>regards<br><br>Bram<br><br clear="all">@mire - <a href="http://www.atmire.com">http://www.atmire.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Robin Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin.taylor@ed.ac.uk">robin.taylor@ed.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Bram,<br>
<br>
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 <a href="http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/searchQuery" target="_blank">http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/searchQuery</a> (** 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.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Robin.<br>
<br>
<br>
Robin Taylor<br>
Main Library<br>
University of Edinburgh<br>
Tel. 0131 6513808<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Subject: [Dspace-general] Wordle visualization of DSpace content<br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> In the category, fun on friday, I was curious to investigate<br>
> the results of feeding DSpace item titles into Wordle (<br>
> <a href="http://www.wordle.net" target="_blank">http://www.wordle.net</a> ), and see what would come up.<br>
><br>
> Wordle visualizes the occurrence of words for any amount of<br>
> text you feed it. Basically Worlde counts the times a<br>
> specific word occurs, and represents words that occur many<br>
> times large, and words that only occur a few times, smaller,<br>
> in one resulting picture.<br>
><br>
> As a data source, I used K.U. Leuven's LIRIAS repository (<br>
> <a href="http://lirias.kuleuven.be" target="_blank">http://lirias.kuleuven.be</a> ), a large and rapidly growing<br>
> repository. This DSpace's hierarchy is subject oriented, as<br>
> the communities and collections are organized according to<br>
> the institution's organizational structure. For this<br>
> experiment, I took three top level communities: the<br>
> Biomedical Sciences group, the Humanities and Social Sciences<br>
> group and last (but not least) the Sciences, Engineering and<br>
> Technology group.<br>
><br>
> Using @mire's reporting suite (<br>
> <a href="http://atmire.com/USB/resources/reporting_suite.html" target="_blank">http://atmire.com/USB/resources/reporting_suite.html</a> ) it<br>
> took me five minutes to generate a clean list of the item<br>
> titles of International Publications (a small subset of the<br>
> content) for each of these top level communities, that were<br>
> submitted in 2009 (500+ for each of these groups).<br>
><br>
> These lists were used to create following Wordles:<br>
> Humanities and Social Sciences -<br>
> <a href="http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003572/K.U._Leuven_Humanit" target="_blank">http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003572/K.U._Leuven_Humanit</a><br>
> ies_and_Social_Sciences_publications_2009<br>
> Biomedical Sciences -<br>
> <a href="http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003562/K.U._Leuven_Biomed_" target="_blank">http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003562/K.U._Leuven_Biomed_</a><br>
> Publications_2009<br>
> Science, Engineering and Technology -<br>
> <a href="http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003577/K.U._Leuven_Science" target="_blank">http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003577/K.U._Leuven_Science</a><br>
> %2C_Engineering_and_Technology_publications_2009<br>
><br>
> It was funny to see that almost all titles were in english<br>
> for the Biomed and SE&T groups. For Humanities and Social<br>
> Sciences, there was a mix between english and dutch titles.<br>
> Wordle allows you to filter the most common words (the, an,<br>
> a, ...) for one particular language. So to clean the<br>
> Humanities & Social Sciences Worldle from both english and<br>
> dutch stop-words, I had to do some manual work on the list.<br>
><br>
> Although already a sub-selection of three groups was made,<br>
> you still see a lot of "generic" scientific terms, and not so<br>
> many interesting subject keywords. That's quite logic,<br>
> because although the scientists belong to the same group,<br>
> they're still dealing with a variety of subjects.<br>
><br>
> When zooming in on more specific subjects, here's the Wordle<br>
> from the Computer Science department 2009 publications (one<br>
> subcommunity level below the Groups):<br>
> <a href="http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003647/K.U._Leuven_Compute" target="_blank">http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003647/K.U._Leuven_Compute</a><br>
> r_Science_publications_2009<br>
><br>
> And even more specific, here's the one for the researchgroup<br>
> of Experimental Radiotherapy, under the Department of<br>
> Oncology in the group of Biomedical sciences. For this one, I<br>
> took all of the publications from 2000-2009 to get a relevant<br>
> selection.<br>
> <a href="http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003638/K.U._Leuven_Experim" target="_blank">http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1003638/K.U._Leuven_Experim</a><br>
> ental_Radiotherapy_Publications_2000-2009<br>
><br>
> best regards,<br>
><br>
> Bram Luyten<br>
><br>
> @mire - <a href="http://www.atmire.com" target="_blank">http://www.atmire.com</a><br>
><br>
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> 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA<br>
><br>
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><br>
><br>
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