Masterarbeit
Improving the user interface experience in providing concepts to describe a research
dataset in a structured semantic way
Completion
2021/03
Research Area
Intelligent Information Management
Students
Zahra Hassanjoulaee
Advisers
Description
When publishing scientific datasets, researchers are
encouraged to provide additional details about certain characteristics of these scientific
artifacts, as they are normally not self-descriptive. However, such a meta data
description nowadays commonly comprises a title, some information about the author and
institution, some other administrative or citational metadata, some simple and maybe
ambiguous keywords and an unstructured description of the main content. This is an
obstacle for further discovery and filter operations when other beneficiarians search for
existing relevant datasets but can only filter for very general criteria such as the
knowledge domain or the resource type, because other structured information is not broadly
requested in established user interfaces, which also hinders interdisciplinary
reuse.
Instead, it would be a benefit, if scientists are able to
provide a more detailed, explicit, structured description of the content and the
background of the research dataset when publishing a new artifact. Standardized
terminologies already exist in multiple knowledge disciplines, that organize particular
concepts hierarchically and group them under multiple aspects. The objective of this
thesis project is to do research on alternative user input interfaces which allow a user
to quickly and interactively provide a list of relevant aspects and concrete concepts that
describe the nature of the published research dataset such as the media type, data
license, examined objects, recording device, research objectives, data aquisition method,
evaluation method and other relevant parameters.
After a
requirement and state-of-the-art analysis, a concept has to be developed, how such an
alternative frontend concept input interface can be designed so that it can be included in
other static web forms and returns a list of user-descriped dimensions together with
selected concept labels and identifiers. An implementation and evaluation has to show the
feasibility and acceptance of the approach with regards to an improved user input
interface experience in comparison to traditional static web form input elements for
research dataset meta-description.
