OpenMathMap: Interaction

Mathematics is a fast growing discipline where an average of 120 thousand papers are published per year. We seek to provide better interfaces to interact with this huge collection of documents. To study new techniques that allow users to intuitively assess and interact with mathematical publication collections we use OpenMathMap (OMM) – a computer-generated map which represents Mathematical Subject Classifications (MSC) class as “countries”, “states”, and “cities”. We present a platform that allows to build interactions with semantical meta-data based on OMM and show a variety of information services taking advantage of the semantic and hierarchical properties of the dataset at hand. We evaluate the platform to determine how successful the map is as an intuitive complement for search. The map proved to be a useful interface for interacting with and understanding the results that were being displayed.