Using digital book metrics for navigation and browsing

Huggett, Michael; Rasmussen, Edie

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Description

Title

Using digital book metrics for navigation and browsing

Author(s)

• Huggett, Michael
• Rasmussen, Edie

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• digital books
• back-of-book indexes
• vocabulary
• collections
• browsing
• bibliometrics and scholarly communication
• cultural informatics
• information retrieval

Abstract

As the scholar’s work migrates from print to the digital realm, new ways of browsing, navigating and searching collections of digital books are needed. The Back-of Book Index is a carefully crafted source of information on a book’s vocabulary and concepts, and if aggregated across multiple books, for a subject domain as a whole. Using a test collection of digital books in a variety of domains, we explore the use of index vocabulary to derive a series of metrics to indicate the relationships between index vocabulary and the digital collection, and the relationships between the books within a digital domain. We are investigating ways in which these metrics can be used to facilitate navigation and browsing at the domain level, to identify the most appropriate works within a digital collection for a particular subject or topic.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42070

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13370

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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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