Title :
Visualizing Co-Authorship Networks in Online Wikipedia
Author :
Biuk-Aghai, Robert P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Macau Univ.
fDate :
Oct. 18 2006-Sept. 20 2006
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ISCIT.2006.339838
