The competitive information world of today is forcing the library community to rethink and improve the way it provides information to the users. The clear advantages of the library catalogue, such as authority control, consistency and the wealth of information are obviously not utilised to their full potential. A step further from the card catalogue paradigm is therefore urgently needed. The library has to take better advantage of its rich and high quality data as well as centuries of experience and provide the information to their users in an effective and user-friendly way. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) provides a new view which could not only enable more intuitive presentation of bibliographic information, but also open this information using Semantic Web tools and services and therefore promote exchange and reuse across domains. Some current research activities will be presented. They all pave the way to better bibliographic information systems, which should be developed without further delay.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 56741730Lately, more studies have started to look into adapting information visualization to individual users. This paper adds to those studies by analysing whether gender, field of study, and experience influenced user performance and preference in four different hierarchical layouts. The results show that, generally, the three factors did not show significant differences between layouts, but also revealed some interesting indications for further studies
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 53749090The bibliographic universe is a complex network of interrelated instances of entity types and presentation of such networks to users is challenging. The paper discusses the complexity of these relationships through Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) conceptual model, presents possible scenarios for displaying them to users via information visualization and gives an account of the features we identified as difficult to implement within our first version of FrbrVis prototype.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 50598242International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): - Standing Committe for Classification and Indexing (M. Žumer chair (2013 -)) - FRBR Review Group (M. Žumer member till 2013, T. Merčun member from) - Consolidation Editorial Group (M. Žumer member from 2013)
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, ISSN 1542-0353 (R. Šolar) Knowledge Organisation, ISSN 0943-7444 (M. Žumer) Program, ISSN 0033-0337 (M. Žumer)
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine