CHIMERA

Wearable technologies draw on a range of disciplines, including fashion, textiles, HCI, and engineering. Due to differences in methodology, wearables researchers can experience gaps or breakdowns in values, goals, and vocabulary when collaborating. This situation makes wearables development challenging, even more so when technologies are in the early stages of development and their technological and cultural potential is not fully understood. We propose a common ground to enhance the accessibility of wearables-related resources. The objective is to raise awareness and create a convergent space for researchers and developers to both access and share information across domains. We present CHIMERA, an online search interface that allows users to explore wearable technologies beyond their discipline. CHIMERA is powered by a Wearables Taxonomy and a database of research, tutorials, aesthetic approaches, concepts, and patents. To validate CHIMERA, we used a design task with multidisciplinary designers, an open-ended usability study with experts, and a usability survey with students of a wearables design class. Our findings suggest that CHIMERA assists users with different mindsets and skillsets to engage with information, expand and share knowledge when developing wearables. It forges common ground across divergent disciplines, encourages creativity, and affords the formation of inclusive, multidisciplinary perspectives in wearables development.

Digital Repository of the Southern Federal University in the Scientific and Educational Space of the University

The article reveals the experience of creating a Digital Repository by the Zonal Scientific Library of the Southern Federal University. It is organized and technically supported as the central repository of the SFedU intellectual property objects. Having studied the experience of other universities, it was decided to develop its own software platform built in Python. As a result, a high level of service was provided for the use of the repository not only by librarians and users, but also by other structural divisions of the university. The repository contains the intellectual products of the university, provides access to the results of scientific research of the university, has the ability to exchange metadata through the API interface, has a customized search interface, ensures the safety of content, and minimizes the labor costs of users and service personnel.

Design of Generalized Search Interfaces for Health Informatics

In this paper, we investigate ontology-supported interfaces for health informatics search tasks involving large document sets. We begin by providing background on health informatics, machine learning, and ontologies. We review leading research on health informatics search tasks to help formulate high-level design criteria. We use these criteria to examine traditional design strategies for search interfaces. To demonstrate the utility of the criteria, we apply them to the design of ONTology-supported Search Interface (ONTSI), a demonstrative, prototype system. ONTSI allows users to plug-and-play document sets and expert-defined domain ontologies through a generalized search interface. ONTSI’s goal is to help align users’ common vocabulary with the domain-specific vocabulary of the plug-and-play document set. We describe the functioning and utility of ONTSI in health informatics search tasks through a workflow and a scenario. We conclude with a summary of ongoing evaluations, limitations, and future research.

Glossa som forskningsverktøy. Hva folk søker etter og hva resultatene brukes til

In this article we show how the search interface Glossa has been developed in step with the various corpora that have been built at the Text Laboratory. Furthermore, we present statistics on what kind of searches people do – single words or longer phrases, with or without specifications for phonetic form or grammatical features etc. – focusing on the Nordic Dialect Corpus and the Corpus of American Nordic Speech. Finally, we demonstrate how researchers have searched for data in these corpora and used them in published articles – both simple and extended search, in smaller or larger language areas – within several different branches of linguistics.

Using classification systems in e-catalogs, e-libraries and open archives

Key requirements to search interface in e-catalogs are generalized. Alternative initial search pages of e-catalogs and e-libraries are discussed. Causes for classification underuse for search are specified. Advantages of search with classification systems are substantiated. The paper is prepared under the State Order to RNPLS&T No. 730000F.99.1.BV09AA00006 for 2021.

Organizing thematic search in open archive system

Problems of search organization in open archive system are specified and analyzed. The experience of thematic search in digital resources is generalized. The approaches to organizing open archive search interface oriented toward untrained and trained users are characterized. The pros and cons of single search window are discussed. Vectors to improve search instruments and performance are defined. The rubricator version to support thematic search adaptation is proposed. The choice of UDC as the rubricator foundation is substantiated provided that its correspondence with the State Rubricator of Scitech information and Library Bibliographic Classification is set up. The fragment of the suggested rubricator is given as an example. The main purpose of the analysis is to summarize on the problems related to thematic search and to propose approaches to design optimum close-knit rubricator, and to identify its application possibilities.