Title :
Concept maps to support oral history search and use
Author :
White, Ryen W. ; Song, Hyunyoung ; Liu, Jay
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD
Abstract :
In this paper we describe a novel technique to support information seeking in oral history archives using concept maps. We conducted a pilot study with teachers engaged in work tasks using a prototype concept mapping tool. Results suggest that concept maps can help searchers, especially when tasks are complex
Keywords :
history; information retrieval; user interfaces; concept mapping tool; information seeking; oral history archives; Amplitude shift keying; Automatic speech recognition; Computer science; Educational institutions; History; Indexing; Information retrieval; Prototypes; Thesauri; Visualization; concept mapping; oral histories;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-354-9
DOI :
10.1145/1141753.1141794
