[Dspace-general] Wordle visualization of DSpace content

[Bram Luyten]

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 <robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk> 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: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
> > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Bram Luyten
> > Sent: 17 July 2009 14:00
> > To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> > 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
> >
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> > 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA
> >
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> >
> >
>
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