[Dspace-general] Wordle visualization of DSpace content

Fri Jul 17 11:17:37 EDT 2009

Looks really Cool!...

Best Regards, Jayan

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Robin Taylor <robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> If I understand correctly, no it won't register Google searches. Its just a
> wee bit of code added to the search function to store the searches. There is
> spam protection in the sense that I filter out common words and some
> offensive stuff. It would be easy to restrict it to searches for specific IP
> addresses or ranges in order to filter out federated searches or spammers,
> but I haven't done so as yet... I probably shouldn't mention that on a
> public mailing list :)
>
> Cheers, Robin.
>
> Robin Taylor
> Main Library
> University of Edinburgh
> Tel. 0131 6513808
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bluyten at gmail.com [mailto:bluyten at gmail.com] On Behalf
> > Of Bram Luyten
>  > Sent: 17 July 2009 14:53
> > To: Robin Taylor
> > Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Wordle visualization of DSpace content
> >
> > 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
> >
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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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