Multilevel Browsing of Folksonomy-Based Digital Collections
This addresses navigation challenges for users of digital collections, but it is incremental as it builds on existing folksonomy paradigms.
The paper tackles the problem of limited navigation in folksonomy-based digital collections by extending one-level tag selection to multilevel browsing, allowing incremental filtering with sequential tags; experimental results show its application in the Clavy system for digital humanities and education.
This paper describes how to extend the usual one-level tag selection navigation paradigm in folksonomy-based digital collections to a multilevel browsing one, according to which it is possible to incrementally narrow down the set of selected objects in a collection by sequentially adding more and more filtering tags. For this purpose, we present a browsing strategy based on finite automata. Also, we provide some experimental results concerning the application of the approach in Clavy, a system for managing digital collections with reconfigurable structures in digital humanities and educational settings.