Spotlight browsing of resource archives

Mulholland, Paul; Collins, Trevor and Zdrahal, Zdenek (2005). Spotlight browsing of resource archives. In: ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 05), 6-9 Sep 2005, Salzburg, Austria.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1083356.1083362

URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1083356.10...

Abstract

Many organizations, particularly in the heritage sector, have large archives of digital content that they could make available to the general public or special interest groups if they had the appropriate mechanisms. Currently, these organizations can develop pre-crafted web sites, simple database-driven web sites or search facilities for accessing the content. However, none of these can be expected to appropriately present this content or scaffold
its effective use. Our proposed solution is an approach to navigation that we term spotlight browsing. It has the following key features: (i) Users can select a collection of resources from the archive, shining a spotlight on this area of the archive; (ii) The collection is structured in a number of ways to support its exploration and convey interesting properties of the collection; (iii) Users can see what is on the periphery of their current collection in order to encourage further exploration; (iv) Users can redefine the collection in order to move their spotlight to another area of the archive; (v) Any item viewed while browsing can be bookmarked into a personal collection that can be built up using resources from many different spotlights. The approach has been implemented and tested using an archive of content from a heritage institution.

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