  Information systems usually show as a particular point of failure the
vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information
space in question. Some kind of guided searching therefore becomes more and
more important in order to precisely discover information without knowing the
right search terms. Knowledge maps of digital library collections are promising
navigation tools through knowledge spaces but still far away from being
applicable for searching digital libraries. However, there is no continuous
knowledge exchange between the "map makers" on the one hand and the Information
Retrieval (IR) specialists on the other hand. Thus, there is also a lack of
models that properly combine insights of the two strands. The proposed workshop
aims at bringing together these two communities: experts in IR reflecting on
visual enhanced search interfaces and experts in knowledge mapping reflecting
on visualizations of the content of a collection that might also present a
context for a search term in a visual manner. The intention of the workshop is
to raise awareness of the potential of interactive knowledge maps for
information seeking purposes and to create a common ground for experiments
aiming at the incorporation of knowledge maps into IR models at the level of
the user interface.
