Authors:
Luís Sarmento
1
;
Fabien Gouyon
2
;
Bruno G. Costa
3
and
Eugénio Oliveira
1
Affiliations:
1
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
;
2
INESC, Portugal
;
3
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Information visualization, Search interfaces, Content ranking using social media, User interfaces for search interaction.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Metadata and Metamodeling
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Searching and Browsing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
In this paper we present RAMA (Relational Artist MAps), a simple yet efficient interface to navigate through networks of music artists. RAMA is built upon a dataset of artist similarity and user-defined tags regarding 583.000 artists gathered from Last.fm. This third-party, publicly available, data about artists similarity and artists tags is used to produce a visualization of artists relations. RAMA provides two simultaneous layers of information: (i) a graph built from artist similarity data, and (ii) overlaid labels containing user-defined tags. Differing from existing artist network visualization tools, the proposed prototype emphasizes commonalities as well as main differences between artist categorizations derived from user-defined tags, hence providing enhanced browsing experiences to users.