Search Interfaces for Biodiversity Informatics

该项目将为快速扩展但实际上尚未研究的生物多样性数据库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生物相关的信息，如分布，分类，自然历史和保护数据。 这个项目将结合联合收割机信息可视化技术和快速反馈动态查询接口，再加上一个积极的做法，与代表性的用户在各级工作，从设计到评估。 它还将利用可缩放的界面，允许用户浏览多个层次，以便在视觉上容纳高度互联的数据。 该项目的目标是： * 开发生物多样性数据库的搜索界面 针对领域新手的成年人。 * 建立结合“民间”和“科学”理解的界面。 * 评估已开发的接口，并将其与现有接口进行比较 生物多样性领域的界面模型。

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.