Candidates for _The Big Picture: Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases_

[Gerry McKiernan]

Candidates for _The Big Picture: Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web
                         Databases_


    With the Web publication of a news items in the Wall Street
Journal late last month on Information Visualization, as well as
the Web publication of a review article on Info Viz I wrote last
year for the South African Internet magazine _Intelligence_, and
the excellent paper prepared by Renee Davis for her _Internet
Information Services_, I believe the time has come to solicit
additional nominations of projects, services, products and/or
research devoted to Information Visualization technologies
that have been applied to enhance access and navigation of
Information Spaces in both Web as well as non-Web databases,
particularly MARC and other bibliographic formats. For a good
overview, interested folk are invited to visit _The Big Picture_
at URL:

     http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic.htm

    For a broad view on the application of Information
Visualization for enhanced subject, interested folk may also
wish to read the summaries of the presentations given at this
year's University of Illinois Clinic on Data Processing in
Libraries published in the May 1977 issue of _Library Hi Tech
News_ (no. 142)


    I would appreciate learning about _any_ additional relevant
efforts not currently profiled in _The Big Picture_ or under
consideration and listed at the following related URL

      http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic1.htm

   To facilitate communication about Information Visualization
and its potential application to enhancing access to subject
as well as structure within Web and non-Web databases, I
will be establishing a marjordomo listserv later this summer.
Once established and tested, I will let the universe know of
its existence.

    Regards,

Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/


              "The Best is Yet to Come!"


P.S. I am particularly grateful to Renee Davis for
letting me know about the WSJ article and for
citing a draft copy of my _Intelligence_ article
under its original working title ....

   Right Brain Rising: The Devolution of Hypertext and
The End of the World (Wide Web) As We Know It!

   Provocative, Ain't It! [:->]