Experimental Navigation:
Discovery, Exploration, Distillation

Michael Jensen, www.nap.edu

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Discovery "Standards"?


  • Difficult to say that Discovery/Exploration results are "right" -- but we will be experimenting with this
  • Lexical discovery, linguistic navigation, and thematic-clustering, etc. may be appropriate for researchers, but also need "Search" for most users
  • Further experiments are of course needed, e.g. Clustering based on common key elements; Lexical Filtering with similar basis
  • Significance weights (of terms, of types, of contexts) will need to be user-driven more and more, as more material online
  • "Implicit metadata" may be a assistive; "explicit metadata" may be determinative. How much engagement from the author/recommender/publisher/provider can be expected?
  • "suggested tags" vs. "recommended key terms" vs. "algorithmic context" vs. "user-driven connectedness over time"