Ralf Stockmann / Stefan Jänicke / Christian Mahnke / Gerik Scheuermann

Europeana tech conference

Europeana 4D Exploring data in space and time

Partners

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Concept

MAP

Concept

MAP TIMELINE

Concept

MAP TIMELINE

• Multiple data layers

• Interaction

• Animation

• Aggregation of data

• Connections

• Drilldown

• Historical/custom maps

• Result table

• Splitting Datasets

• ...

Refinement

Europeana realtime search

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Questonnaire

Questonnaire

Questonnaire

Questonnaire

Questonnaire

Datasets

• europeana• SUB-UGOE Library catalog• Flickr• IMDB• Dbpedia• German Digital

Library• WikiLeaks

Flickr: „tsunami“

Usability Testing: Three Focus Groups

A: early adopter, technically literate, blogger, social networker, more interested in technical aspects than content & culture, hard to impress, opinion leader.Europeana Personas mapping: JUKKA

B: average internet user, above-average interest in culture, „technology is just a tool“ attitude.

Europeana Personas mapping: William & Maria

C: scientist, not used to computer based explorative methods, conservative use of media.

Europeana Personas mapping: Terese

User tests based on the europeana „personas“ concept

Jukka

Maria

Terese

WilliamExplorative behaviour

Navigational behaviour

Difficult Search

Effortless Search

A

B

C

Two user tests

• 1. Test in November 2010– Is the interface useful (for a general public)?

Accessibility, Learnability, Efficiency, Correctness– Does it provide a new scientific approach / method

Appropriateness, Quality, Explorative methods– Tests guided by facilitator

• 2. Test in March 2011– Complex tasks/puzzles– Had to be solved alone– Tutorial video as a guided tour

Technological Framework (open source)

• OpenLayers• Simile Timeline/Timeplot• GeoNames (Geoparser...)• Explorer Canvas (Google)• GeoServer (OpenStreetmap, Google Maps)• Google Web Toolkit (GWT)• KML (XML)

Data Model

WHAT?WHAT?

NAMENAME

descriptiondescription

urlurl

MANDATORYMANDATORY

optionaloptional

Data Model

WHAT?WHAT?

WHERE?WHERE?

NAMENAME

descriptiondescription

urlurl

COORDINATES

COORDINATES

addressaddress

MANDATORYMANDATORY

optionaloptional

KML

KML

Data Model

WHAT?WHAT?

WHERE?WHERE? WHEN?WHEN?

NAMENAME

descriptiondescription

urlurl

COORDINATES

COORDINATES

addressaddress

TIMESTAMPTIMESTAMP

rangerange

MANDATORYMANDATORY

optionaloptional

Exchange Format: KML (XML)

Use your own data in 5 easy steps!

1. Take a look at the .kml specificationhttp://tinyurl.com/e4d-kml

2. Build your own KML dataset3. Upload it to a webserver4. Put the URL into the prototype at

http://tinyurl.com/e4d-demo5. Share your set via the magnetic link!

We would LOVE! to see:

• Twitter (trending topics evolving within minutes all over the planet)

• DBpedia (realtime wikipedia SPARQL semantic-search)

• Flickr realtime API-based search

• Foursquare (your life on a map)

• LinkedIn (all your business travels)

• ... (your favorite webservice)

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Ressources

• e4D info website: http://tinyurl.com/e4d-project

• Europeana thoughtLab: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/thoughtlab.html• YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/europeana4D