Visualizing Co-Authorship Networks in Online Wikipedia

Author

Biuk-Aghai, Robert P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Macau Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 18 2006-Sept. 20 2006

Firstpage

737

Lastpage

742

Abstract

The Wikipedia online user-contributed encyclopedia has rapidly become a highly popular and widely used online reference source. However, perceiving the complex relationships in the network of articles and other entities in Wikipedia is far from easy. We introduce the notion of using co-authorship of articles to determine relationship between articles, and present the WikiVis information visualization system which visualizes this and other types of relationships in the Wikipedia database in 3D graph form. A 3D star layout and a 3D nested cone tree layout are presented for displaying relationships between entities and between categories, respectively. A novel 3D pinboard layout is presented for displaying search results

Keywords

Web sites; data visualisation; encyclopaedias; search engines; 3D graph form; 3D nested cone tree layout; 3D pinboard layout; 3D star layout; WikiVis information visualization system; coauthorship networks; online Wikipedia; online reference source; online user-contributed encyclopedia; Computer graphics; Computer networks; Encyclopedias; Information science; Internet; Natural languages; Relational databases; Visual databases; Visualization; Wikipedia;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technologies, 2006. ISCIT '06. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9741-X

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9741-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2006.339838

Filename

4141483