TY - GEN
T1 - VirDO: A virtual workspace for research documents
AU - Raptis, G.E
AU - Katsini, C.P
AU - Payne, S J
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We report the design of a system which integrates a suite of tools to allow scholars to manage related documents in their personal digital stores. VirDO provides a virtual workspace in which pdfs can be placed and displayed, and which allows these documents to be manipulated in various ways that prior literature suggests to be useful. Particularly noteworthy are the various maps that support users in uncovering the inter-relations among documents in the workspace, including citation relations and flexible user-defined tags. Early evaluation of the system was positive: especially promising was the increasing use of maps by two participants who used VirDO for their own research over a period of a week, as well as the extensive use by all participants of sticky notes.
AB - We report the design of a system which integrates a suite of tools to allow scholars to manage related documents in their personal digital stores. VirDO provides a virtual workspace in which pdfs can be placed and displayed, and which allows these documents to be manipulated in various ways that prior literature suggests to be useful. Particularly noteworthy are the various maps that support users in uncovering the inter-relations among documents in the workspace, including citation relations and flexible user-defined tags. Early evaluation of the system was positive: especially promising was the increasing use of maps by two participants who used VirDO for their own research over a period of a week, as well as the extensive use by all participants of sticky notes.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_63
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_63
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_63
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
SN - 9783642405006
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 470
EP - 473
BT - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
A2 - Aalberg, Trond
A2 - Papatheodorou, Christos
A2 - Dobreva, Milena
A2 - Tsakonas, Giannis
A2 - Farrugia, Charles J
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2013
Y2 - 22 September 2013 through 26 September 2013
ER -