1. Europeana tech conference
Europeana 4D
Exploring data in space and time
Ralf Stockmann / Stefan Jänicke / Christian Mahnke / Gerik Scheuermann

2. Partners
Anlass der Präsentation (Fußzeile)

3. Concept
MAP

4. Concept
MAP TIMELINE

5. Concept
MAP TIMELINE

6. Refinement
• Multiple data layers
• Interaction
• Animation
• Aggregation of data
• Connections
• Drilldown
• Historical/custom maps
• Result table
• Splitting Datasets
• ...

8. Europeana realtime search
Anlass der Präsentation (Fußzeile)

9. Questonnaire

10. Questonnaire

11. Questonnaire

12. Questonnaire

13. Questonnaire

14. Datasets
• europeana
• SUB-UGOE Library catalog
Flickr: „tsunami“
• Flickr
• IMDB
• Dbpedia
• German Digital
Library
• WikiLeaks

15. Usability Testing: Three Focus Groups
A: early adopter, technically literate, blogger, social networker, more
interested in technical aspects than content & culture, hard to impress,
opinion leader.
Europeana Personas mapping: JUKKA
B: average internet user, above-average interest in culture, „technology is
just a tool“ attitude.
Europeana Personas mapping: William & Maria
C: scientist, not used to computer based explorative methods,
conservative use of media.
Europeana Personas mapping: Terese

16. User tests based on the europeana „personas“ concept
Effortless Search
C A
Terese Jukka
Maria
B
Navigational Explorative
behaviour William behaviour
Difficult Search

17. Two user tests
• 1. Test in November 2010
– Is the interface useful (for a general public)?
Accessibility, Learnability, Efficiency, Correctness
– Does it provide a new scientific approach / method
Appropriateness, Quality, Explorative methods
– Tests guided by facilitator
• 2. Test in March 2011
– Complex tasks/puzzles
– Had to be solved alone
– Tutorial video as a guided tour

18. Technological Framework (open source)
• OpenLayers
• Simile Timeline/Timeplot
• GeoNames (Geoparser...)
• Explorer Canvas (Google)
• GeoServer (OpenStreetmap, Google Maps)
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
• KML (XML)

19. Data Model
WHAT?
NAME
MANDATORY
description
optional
url

20. Data Model
WHAT?
NAME
MANDATORY
description
optional
url
WHERE?
COORDINATE
S
address

21. Data Model
WHAT?
NAME
MANDATORY
description
optional
url
KM
WHERE? L WHEN?
COORDINATE
S TIMESTAMP
address range

22. Exchange Format: KML (XML)

23. Use your own data in 5 easy steps!
1. Take a look at the .kml specification
http://tinyurl.com/e4d-kml
2. Build your own KML dataset
3. Upload it to a webserver
4. Put the URL into the prototype at
http://tinyurl.com/e4d-demo
5. Share your set via the magnetic link!

24. We would LOVE! to see:
• Twitter (trending topics evolving within minutes all over the planet)
• DBpedia (realtime wikipedia SPARQL semantic-search)
• Flickr realtime API-based search
• Foursquare (your life on a map)
• LinkedIn (all your business travels)
• ... (your favorite webservice)
Anlass der Präsentation (Fußzeile)

25. Ressources
• e4D info website:
http://tinyurl.com/e4d-project
• Europeana thoughtLab: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/thoughtlab.html
• YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/europeana4D