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

Tue May 28 16:56:20 UTC 2013

A number of people have mentioned that there should be an open equivalent
to readcube. No idea what effort is involved - I suspect we have someof the
bits

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch
<arafalov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you Tony and Mahroof for the suggestions.
>
> I can't use canned software (like Readcube) because my citations are
> 'unusual' and I have to do my own regex/parser for them. But it was
> interesting to see the references. It certainly gave me some ideas.
>
> Regards,
>    Alex.
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>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Ma-roof M <mahroof.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:28 PM
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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/
> >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch
> >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all
> >> at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working.  (Anonymous  - via GTD
> >> book)
> >>
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