West Group,
Inc.
Digital Library Research Group,
College of Library and Information Services,
University
of Maryland
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Digital Library Research Group,
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West Publishing produces paper and online versions of cases, statutes, and other legal information. Since searches often are difficult to compose and produce complex results, advanced interfaces that apply information visualization may help. This project is creating inspirational prototypes using existing tools such as LifeLines, Spotfire, WebTOC, and Dotfire. West's hierarchy of legal topics called Key Numbers, provides a fruitful framework for visualization of search results, as do temporal, geographic, and link structures Our initial prototypes will be evaluated and the most promising alternatives will be refined and tested with legal information specialists.
| Overview of Search Result Sets | Document Viewer | History Viewers | |||
| Hierarchical browser over Key Numbers:
WebTOC version 1, version 2 |
Two-dimensional hierarchical browser
Dotfire |
Multidimensional browser: Spotfire
(demo on standalone computer) |
Case Viewers Frames Case Viewer Case Book |
Case history viewer: Lifelines |
Session history viewer: WebTOC |
October 1999 Update:
New version of Dotfire, now called GRIDL
(GRaphical Interface for Digital Libraries), adapted to the ACM Computing
Classification System by Xavier Ferré Grau.
Papers:
Slides:
Ben Shneiderman
Comments welcome: ben@cs.umd.edu.
