[Dspace-general] Wordle visualization of DSpace content

Wed Jul 22 09:33:23 EDT 2009

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
>
> @mire - http://www.atmire.com
>
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> 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA
>
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>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Robin Taylor <robin.taylor at ed.ac.uk 
> <mailto: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
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>     > [mailto: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 <mailto: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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