This work-in-progress paper introduces an interface for the interactive
visual exploration of the context of queries using the ArticleFirst database, a
product of OCLC. We describe a workflow which allows the user to browse live
entities associated with 65 million articles. In the on-line interface, each
query leads to a specific network representation of the most prevailing
entities: topics (words), authors, journals and Dewey decimal classes linked to
the set of terms in the query. This network represents the context of a query.
Each of the network nodes is clickable: by clicking through, a user traverses a
large space of articles along dimensions of authors, journals, Dewey classes
and words simultaneously. We present different use cases of such an interface.
This paper provides a link between the quest for maps of science and on-going
debates in HCI about the use of interactive information visualisation to
empower users in their search.Comment: CHI'15 Extended Abstracts, April 18-23, 2015, Seoul, Republic of
Korea. ACM 978-1-4503-3146-3/15/0