Search Interfaces for Biodiversity Informatics

生物多样性信息学搜索界面

• 批准号: 0219492
• 负责人: Benjamin Bederson
• 金额: $ 38万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0219492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Search; Interfaces; Biodiversity; Informatics

This project will build information retrieval interfaces for the rapidlyexpanding but virtually unstudied domain of biodiversity databases. Anunderstanding of the nature and magnitude of biological diversity is fundamental to most pressing environmental and conservation debates. Biodiversity databases contain organism-related information such as distribution, taxonomy, natural history, and conservation data. This project will combine information visualization techniques and rapid feedback dynamic query interfaces coupled with an aggressive approach of working with representative users at all levels, from design through evaluation. It will also utilize zoomable interfaces to allow users to navigate multiple hierarchies, in order to visually accommodate highly interconnected data. The goals of the project are: * To develop a searching interface for biodiversity databases targeting domain-novice adults. * To build interfaces combining "folk" and "scientific" understanding. * To evaluate the developed interfaces and compare them to existing interface models in the biodiversity domain.

该项目将为生物多样性数据库这一迅速发展但实际上尚未被研究的领域建立信息检索接口。对生物多样性的性质和规模的理解是最紧迫的环境和保护辩论的基础。生物多样性数据库包含与生物有关的信息，如分布、分类、自然历史和保护数据。该项目将结合信息可视化技术和快速反馈动态查询界面，以及从设计到评估与各级代表用户合作的积极方法。它还将利用可缩放界面，允许用户浏览多个层次结构，以便在视觉上适应高度互联的数据。该项目的目标是：*开发一个针对领域新手成人的生物多样性数据库搜索界面。*构建结合“民间”和“科学”理解的界面。*评估已开发的界面，并将其与生物多样性领域现有的界面模型进行比较。