Structured Maps introduce an entity-relationship style of model in the superimposed layer where each entity can have one or more facet. Each facet holds references to information elements in the underlying information source. Structured Maps are intended to support new access and navigation paths through the superimposed layer while allowing references to the underlying information. A current project sponsored by the National Science Foundation is investigating the use of traces through an information space. We are capturing a trace of the documents they used in a particular context in order to capture the implicit knowledge of the expert.
Traces are a simple form of superimposed information.
This project is being conducted in collaboration with Dr. David Maier at OGI and Dr. Paul Gorman of the Oregon Health Sciences University. Lois Delcambre holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Southwestern Louisiana.