GlamMapping Trove

Open Access
Authors
  • K. Verbeek
Publication date 2016
Book title VALA2016 Proceedings
Book subtitle The VALA2016 18th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 9–11 February 2016
Event VALA 2016
Number of pages 17
Publisher VALA
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
This paper presents the current state of development of GlamMap, a visualisation tool that displays library metadata on an interactive, computer-generated geographic map. The focus in the paper is on the most crucial improvement achieved in the development of the tool: GlamMapping Trove. The visualisation of Trove’s sixty-million book records is possible thanks to an improved database structure, more efficient data retrieval, and more scalable visualisation algorithms. The paper analyses problems encountered in visualising massive datasets, describes remaining challenges for the tool, and presents a use case demonstrating GlamMap’s ability to serve researchers in the history of ideas.
Document type Conference contribution
Note Includes video and slides.
Language English
Published at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-8-betti
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