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Department of Informatics Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group

Interactive Visual Search and Exploration for Digital Libraries

 

A digital library (DL) is a database of digital objects (documents, items) that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet.

Digital library systems (DLS) enable users to gain access to digital objects (documents, items) through interactive search and filtering capability. In the future, DLS may also support exploration and data analysis capabilities to enable users gaining insights even while browsing for interesting digital objects. This is where methods and techniques developed in IVDA can help most.

 

Scope

Our research focuses on changing paradigms on how digital libraries and digital library systems will support future users searching for digital documents, items, and objects of any kind. Examples include various types of textual documents, research data, multimedia data, shopping items, and more.

The vision is to enhance today's digital library services with methods and techniques developed in the realm of IVDA. Thus, main contributions will be to transfer technology into a data-intensive environment that, however, lacks sophisticated computer science and data science capability.

Concrete research directions include:

  • Enhanced interactive and visual search and filtering techniques
  • Data exploration and knowledge generation through digital library systems
  • Content-based access to complex digital objects
  • Search for similarity measures that would be most useful
  • Human-centered AI in digital libraries
  • Human-model teaming of digitalization processes
  • Designing novel interactive visual digital library systems

Requirements

  • Programming experience in Python or willingness to learn.
  • Decent understanding of written English.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernard
Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group
Department of Informatics, University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14
8050 Zurich
URL: http://juergen-bernard.de/

 

The applications should be sent to bernard@ifi.uzh.ch. For questions, feel free to contact Prof. Bernard using this Email as well.
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