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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"search and browse"”.
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Finding a needle in a haystack : new ways to search and browse on Scratch
… own interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations -- and share their creations with one another. Since the launch of Scratch five years ago, over 2.5 million projects have been shared on the website and it is has become increasingly difficult for Scratchers to find projects that …
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A DOMAIN-CENTRIC APPROACH TO DESIGNING USER INTERFACES OF VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
User- and task-centric efforts in video information retrieval (IR) research are needed because current experiments are showing few significant results. It is our belief that unsatisfactory results in video IR can be partially attributed to the overemphasis on technologically-driven approaches to …
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OverCite : a cooperative digital research library
… online resource for the computer science research community, allowing users to search and browse a large archive of research papers. Unfortunately, its current centralized incarnation is costly to run. Although members of the community would presumably be willing to donate hardware and …
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Ontology driven information retrieval.
… specified in domain ontologies to enhance search and browse. The entities or concepts of lightweight ontological resources are traditionally used to index resources in specialised domains. Indexing with concepts is often achieved manually and reusing them to enhance search remains a …
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Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems
This thesis aims to demonstrate the distinct and so far little explored value of knowledge derived from social interaction data within large web-scale image sharing systems like Flickr, Picasa Web, Facebook and others for image recommendation. I have shown how such systems can be significantly …
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An Evaluation of Structured Navigation for Subject Searching in Online Catalogues
Understanding and improving subject searching in online library catalogues is the focus of this study. Against the backdrop of current research and developments in online catalogues an analysis of the problems and prospects for subject access in the expanding online catalogue is presented. …
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Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
… Focusing on item-level information discovery and access, researchers have identified a range of subject access problems, including quality and application of metadata, as well as the complexity of user knowledge required for successful subject exploration. While aggregations of digital …