Approaching the digital library from multiple viewpoints
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Pratik Chakrabarti, UK medical heritage library event
Approaching the digital library from multiple viewpoints27/10/2017
The various forms of visualizations are:
• Timeline: Displays information on events, and relates them to publications in the collection
• Dendrograms: A taxonomic tree
• Sunbursts: Pattern of irregular concentric bands of colour
• Ngrams:
Timeline
• The timeline has the risk of appearing a bit positivistic to the uninitiated reader, a progressive view of the history of medicine, particularly if this is geared towards classroom teaching
• We are dealing with these more as medical texts, than historical ones.
• Ideas of muscles, bodily organs and epidemics were historically contingent.
https://ukmhl.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/results?terms=Egyptian%20science
Challenges
• In future, very few might read texts as printed copies and will access them mostly through e platforms.
• One option could be to build in a more nuanced form visualization. For example, is it possible mix the timeline with the physiological data?
• The pedagogical challenges: classroom teaching will need to evolve around how to use online text mining tools.