A Dynamic Visualization Interface for Search Service
Haozhen Zhao, Tom Casteel, Xia Lin · 2009
Visualization methods such as node-link trees and space-filling representations expose semantic relationships using spatial arguments to communicate information in ways that text cannot. In this paper, we describe a prototype system that visualizes semantic relationships of search results from the XML-based search service APIs of a large database. OSTI, the source selected for our proof-of-concept prototype, is a major government energy database offering broad coverage of alternative energy resource information including solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal topics, among others. The intent is to expand this prototype to facilitate document retrieval clustering around subject terms from any of several large databases with XML-enabled APIs.