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Samia Shafique – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Shoeprints are a common type of evidence found at crime scenes and are regularly used in forensic investigations. However, their utility is limited by the lack of reference footwear databases that cover the large and growing number of distinct shoe models. Additionally, existing methods for matching crime-scene shoeprints to reference databases…
Descriptors: Crime, Court Litigation, Database Design, Database Management Systems
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Bahde, Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
This paper explores possibilities for marrying data visualization to online archival finding aids, which have continually suffered from usability issues in their long history. This paper describes a project in which two different data visualization models were built to replace sections of an archival finding aid. Users were then shown the models,…
Descriptors: Visualization, Archives, Data, Usability
Scime, Anthony – 1998
Currently available World Wide Web search engines determine a site's qualification as a response to a search request by matching keywords in the request to keywords representing the site. The returned sites are given a score and ranked according to the match on keywords. Many of these retrieved sites can be irrelevant to the user's true…
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Content, Course Objectives, Database Design
Tse, Tony; Vegh, Sandor; Shneiderman, Ben; Marchionini, Gary – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop research methods to compare the effectiveness of two video browsing interface designs, or surrogates--one static (storyboard) and one dynamic (slide show)--on two distinct information seeking tasks (gist determination and object recognition). (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Database Design, Information Retrieval
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Savoy, Jacques – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Proposes a new learning algorithm to improve the retrieval effectiveness of the search system used in the hypertext environment using an extended Boolean model with links to improve the ranking of retrieved items. Highlights include the basic retrieval scheme, the learning scheme, and a review of basic probabilistic retrieval models. (Contains 32…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Database Design, Databases, Hypermedia
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Jantz, Ronald – College & Research Libraries, 2003
Describes the methodology and results of the log analysis for the Alcohol Studies Database (ASDB), a domain-specific database supported by the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University Libraries. The objectives were to better understand user search behavior, to analyze failure rates, and to develop approaches for improving the user…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Behavior Patterns, Computer Interfaces, Data Analysis