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The Effect of Collection Fusion Strategies on Information Seeking Performance in Distributed Hypermedia Digital Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005)

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This paper reports the results of a user-centered experiment which examined the effect of parallel multi-database searching using automated collection fusion strategies on information seeking performance. Three conditions were tested in the experiment. Subjects in the first condition performed search tasks in a WWW-based distributed hypermedia digital library which did not support parallel, concurrent searching of multiple collections, and did not offer any automated mechanism for source selection. Subjects in the second and the third conditions performed parallel multi-database search tasks in the same library with the support of two automated collection fusion strategies (uniform and link-based), each solving the collection fusion problem using a different approach. The results show that information-seeking performance tends to be positively affected when the eclectic link-based method was used. On the other hand, the uniform collection fusion method which treats all the sub-collections in the same manner, does not present any benefit in comparison to information seeking environments in which users must manually select sources and parallel multi-database searching is not provided.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Technology Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Michail Salampasis

  2. School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, St Peters Campus, SR6 ODD, Sunderland, UK

    John Tait

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  1. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  2. Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Technical University of Crete (MUSIC/TUC) Chania, 73100, Crete, Greece

    Stavros Christodoulakis

  3. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9-11/188, A-1040, Wien, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

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Salampasis, M., Tait, J. (2005). The Effect of Collection Fusion Strategies on Information Seeking Performance in Distributed Hypermedia Digital Libraries. In: Rauber, A., Christodoulakis, S., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551362_6

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