[School-of-data] Any suggestions/links on how to visualize heavily cross-referenced documents

Ma-roof M mahroof.m at gmail.com
Tue May 28 14:39:07 UTC 2013


Hi Alex,

Have you tried Readcube? It extracts references from pdf files and links to
the respective papers. And presents them in a neat clickable library for
navigation and reading.

Best regards
Mahroof
On 28 May 2013 17:12, "Tony.Hirst" <Tony.Hirst at open.ac.uk> wrote:

> Alex
>
> IF you're just fishing for ideas, it may be worth looking through some of
> the services that are already out there or that have been hacked around
> citation services.
>
> For example:
>
> http://www.madhavajay.com/kalki/
> http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/
> http://www.autodeskresearch.com/projects/citeology
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ase/
>
> Roundups:
>
> http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/10058/visualization-of-citation-data
>
> There are also visualisations around other sorts of edge, for example
> 'people who bought also bought' edges in Amazon data:
> http://www.yasiv.com/#/Search?q=data&category=Books&lang=US
>
> tony
>
>
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> From: Alexandre Rafalovitch [arafalov at gmail.com]
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> Subject: [School-of-data] Any suggestions/links on how to visualize
> heavily     cross-referenced documents
>
> Hello,
>
> I (will) have a large set of documents that are heavily
> cross-referenced with citations. Assuming I can extract those
> citations, I am trying to figure out the best way for a user to
> navigate the documents using that.
>
> I can do basic 'related documents' and basic visualization of
> one-degree of separation. I also thought about maybe putting related
> documents on an interactive timeline.
>
> But I am also looking for further ideas or examples. Especially, for
> ideas that support navigation and are not just pretty.
>
> I would appreciate any links to books, presentations, live examples.
>
> Regards,
>    Alex.
> Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/
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