Searching Data Portals - More Complex than we Thought?
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چکیده
e amount of data published openly on the web is increasing rapidly. Most people either use web search or specialised data portals, which are repositories of datasets, to search for data. Most data portals today use similar faceted search interfaces. In this paper we focus on how a large governmental data portal in the UK supports users in conducting complex search tasks involving data. Based on a previous interview study with users of the portal we constructed a typical complex work task. In this work, we analyzed how the current system supports users during this task and subsequently identify problems with the interface. Based on this we discuss potential research directions to improve interfaces for complex data related search tasks.
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